News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
Have you found yourself wondering how you could prevent the shame and horror of having it found out that you’re being unfaithful to your spouse while canoodling with a fellow executive at your company at a public event? One simple trick is all it takes.
- Don’t cheat on your wife.
Go here to read the rest. That simple rule has served me well during the 42 years and counting of my marriage.
“….. avoid the near occasion of sin..”
The only girlfriend I have is my dog.
All they had to do was not majorly recoil when they camera was on them and this would have never happened. This whole story is as much about the Streisand Effect as it is about the ugliness of adultery.
At a nuclear power plant where I had once worked, two security guards (male and female, though since the 90s one never knows any longer) were engaged in consentual activity in the southern stairwell in the turbine generator building. They were married, but not to each other. How they as security guards failed to remember that stairwells at nuclear power plants are instrumented with security TV cameras is truly beyond my understanding. The resident US NRC inspectors were very displeased. And that was merely the beginning of their problems.
Good rule. The memes on this have been priceless. I feel sorry for their kids though. Our actions affect the people we love. PS. I love Coldplay
With someone from HR. You can’t even fire her.
Corollary to don’t cheat on your wife. Don’t even be seen out in public alone with a woman with not your wife.
I had an amusing circumstance with this rule. When a local judge that I knew well and that knew my wife saw me out at lunch with a woman that was not my wife, he was trying to figure out a way to raise the issue that he had seen me with a woman not my wife. I don’t recall how he brought it up but it was amusing to tell him “Yes, judge. That was not my wife. It was my mother.” My mother lived to 98, and she loved telling that story.
LKL:
Reminds me of a story my Dad used to tell. In the 1950s in San Francisco, he attended high school and a slightly older female cousin attended a junior college along the same bus line. To play a joke on his friends, one day they sat next to each other on the bus, holding hands but not talking. “Wow, Byrne’s got a college girlfriend!” Took a few days for the guys to catch on.
It’s a huge blessing to have a wife that loves and supports her man. I have that blessing.
We don’t agree on many political battles, but we love each other. How I know that she is my soul mate is that I am learning many virtues from our differences. I am a better man from being around a woman who loves a man like me. Prideful, yes, but willing to listen.
In the final analysis, I believe that listening to each other and our different viewpoints, is the stregenthing bond that has kept us in love for 27 years….and of course…the third party that does the curing of the bond.
Our Lord.
It is He who lavishes the virtues needed to grow in holiness.
Without Him we would be another statistic in the fallout of broken homes.
We have never broken our marriage covenant, thanks be to God.