Like many of you, I have a fairly long commute. Recently, as I was driving and scanning the channels on Sirius, I landed on a talk program hosted by Dr. Laura Schlessinger — a certified marriage and family counselor (her PhD is in physiology) with many decades of experience, a stack of best-selling advice books, and a very long running radio show.
The caller was a young woman with a cheating husband and a new baby. She related that they had dated only five months before getting married, against the recommendations of her friends and family, and that she knew he was a philanderer before they got married. She became pregnant within months of the marriage, and now, having discovered her spouse’s multiple recent affairs, was wondering how to fix her situation.
Dr. Laura feels very firmly that in most cases, the right thing to do is to put up with a poor choice in marriage and focus on keeping a happy home for the child. (You may not agree — and this blog post contains nothing about whether or not I agree — but the actual content of her advice really isn’t the point, so stay with me here.) So, Dr. Laura told the caller that there was no good fix for this bad situation, which she said was the result of the caller’s own poor decision making. She went on to spend a few minutes dispensing advice about what couples could do before they got married, to ensure they were choosing a partner wisely.
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