The Hopeless Marriage

There will be marriages that feel like this in our church at the moment. Ed Welch writes:

Most marriages have times when one spouse does not like the other, and the dislike is usually mutual—at least my “friends” tell me that is accurate, though I’m confident that even when my wife thinks she doesn’t like me, she secretly—very secretly—likes me. For some of us, these times happen less frequently and we manage them with more skill and grace. For others, mutual dislike is chronic rather than acute, and marital hopelessness becomes the rule.

 Read on here. But also do talk to a friend - others will have been there too.