We all know what it’s like to be in the early, blissful stages of a new relationship. Sometimes it’s when you first start dating, and other times, it’s renewed after marriage when you find yourself in the “newlywed” stage. It’s the part of a relationship that no one ever wants to lose—the playful romance, the intentional love and kindness—it’s the picture-perfect version of a marriage.
But we’re all people. And in our humanness, we will always fail one another. It’s something that Jeremy and Kristina McCary learned about three years into their marriage, and it nearly destroyed them.
Nearly.
After giving birth to their first child, parenthood had gotten the best of them. Their relationship went from exciting and blissful to stressful and sleepless in a matter of months.
As life, or Satan rather, continued to wage a war between them, his devilish efforts started to work.
Their marriage slipped away from them as Jeremy began sleeping around with friends of Kristina’s. They were sleeping in separate places, and porn was Jeremy’s new commitment.