Help Parent Or Divorce Husband
How do I choose between my family and my spouse? If I have to choose between taking care of my sick parent in the future and divorcing my husband in order to do so, which one of these decisions is right in Gods eyes?
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---anita on 6/24/05
Helpful Blog Vote (3)
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Your first responsiblity is to God, and second to your spouse. How is it that helping your parents would end in divorce? |
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---Bruce5656 on 4/16/08 |
That choice NOT A CHOICE. I was a highschool principal, my wife a full-time mother/ nurse when her mother got very ill. She quit her job and headed to Arkansas to take care of her Mom and I "batched" with my boy until the end of the schoolyear. Her Mom passed away and her Dad 83, asked if we would move in with him at least for a year to help him out. I quit my job and my boy left his friends. Three months later, my fathr-in-law died! Regrets that we agreed to help? No, the Lord
BLESSED! |
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---Pierr7958 on 6/24/05 |
You should not have to choose. I am in the same situation you are in and my husband is not supportive. Care for your sick parent your parent gave you life and cared for you. No one should have to choose between a parent and a spouse. |
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---Annie on 6/24/05 |
My mom was sick COPD, and me, and my family moved in to take care of her. I don't regret it one bit, my husband didn't mind. He understood my feelings on that no one comes between me and my family. If it were his mom, I'd do the same. My mom passed away in 2001. So I don't regret one bit of taking care of her. Hopefully things will work out to where you can do both. God is a big God and he can work things out. Your husband should be understanding on this, and supportive. |
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---Rebecca_D on 6/24/05 |
Neither.You married for better or worse,that includes your husband supporting you in whatever you need to do for your parents.Parents also need to realize they may have to cooperate ,even if it means going to a Nursing Home.It isn't right for a man to keep a woman from her family who needs her, nor a family to cause a woman to loose her husband.Don't look for trouble before it knocks on the door.Pray you don't ever have to choose.Live one day at a time. |
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---Darlene_1 on 6/24/05 |
Why must you choose? I care for my parents now and any man I meet knows I have a responsibility to my parents which I will carry out. Does you husband not want you caring for your parents. I can not see why you would have to divorce your husband in order to care for parents? |
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---Marla on 6/24/05 |
It seems very unusual that you should have to make this choice. Why, if you care for your parents, would you have to dicorce your husband. What grounds would you have for divorcing him? If anyone here is to offer yuo advice, we need to understand the issues involved. |
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---Alan_of_U.K. on 6/24/05 |
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