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Date Posted: 14:59:47 10/11/04 Mon
Author: Joe
Subject: UBF's support for healthy marriages
In reply to: Joe 's message, "Re: UBF Doctrine" on 12:13:24 10/11/04 Mon

>>b.) Since you bring up marriage, I would like to point
>>out that marriage is more of a process of forming a
>>relationship, rather than a single event.

I've wanted to write about this for some time, and I will do that more fully later. Not only is the way that typical UBF marriages begin wrong, but the way that UBF marriages are nurtured (or rather, not nurtured) is wrong. Consider the utterly asinine marriage "vows" that have been typically exchanged at UBF weddings.

"Do you promise to cook for him and do the dishes? Say 'I do!' Not loud enough! Say 'I do!'"

* Add your examples here.

Consider how husband and wife typically refer to each other.

"my coworker"

This betrays a lack of understanding and a lack of interest in trying to understand just what marriage is, just how serious it is, just how hard the work is to make a marriage work. Yet they are constantly pushing their recruits and their children to get married and often hurriedly putting two people together at the 11th hour.

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