Like the newly wedded!

[Classik]

Like the newly wedded! A couple faces two stages of lonliness in life (some may not call it lonliness):

1. You are newly wedded and no kids yet. The man and the wife are all alone.

After some time God blesses them with Children.

2. your children can't live with you forever. They have to be all gone, each person to his/her own home (married). At this time the couple now appear like a newly wedded again. Lonliness again - the children are gone. Perhaps it's another stage of "oldage honey moon".:dunno .

You do all the work alone



What does it really feel like (especially for the people in stage 2)???

 

[reba]

What does it really feel like (especially for the people in stage 2)???

That would depend on your spouse....

One does not stop being a parent .. Here in the USA there is a sigh of relief when they turn 18 then again @ 21 and also at their marriage. So the kids are gone now and you look in the mirror and are thankful his/her eyesight has grown dim ... :shades

 

[watchman333]

Come on Classik, Christ is our Bridegroom, and we can always talk to Him!

 

[Classik]

That would depend on your spouse....

One does not stop being a parent .. Here in the USA there is a sigh of relief when they turn 18 then again @ 21 and also at their marriage. So the kids are gone now and you look in the mirror and are thankful his/her eyesight has grown dim ... :shades

:toofunny :toofunny
My parents. They are kind of lucky tho. They usually have visitors...and less domestic work to worry about.

Provide 50 househelps - and they'd still love to do all the work.

(Yet no lazy househelp)

 

[Classik]

Come on Classik, Christ is our Bridegroom, and we can always talk to Him!

Yeah. And HE keeps 'watch' over 'man':D

 

[JCitoL]

Like the newly wedded! A couple faces two stages of lonliness in life (some may not call it lonliness):

1. You are newly wedded and no kids yet. The man and the wife are all alone.

After some time God blesses them with Children.

2. your children can't live with you forever. They have to be all gone, each person to his/her own home (married). At this time the couple now appear like a newly wedded again. Lonliness again - the children are gone. Perhaps it's another stage of "oldage honey moon".:dunno .

You do all the work alone

What does it really feel like (especially for the people in stage 2)???

that is why it has been said and written:

Exodus 20:12 "Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee."

Blessings

 

[Mike S]

Being without children living at home after raising them to be independent is a blessing, as is every stage of married life. It's wonderful to have this time with my wife, just the two of us doing together the things we love to do. And, it's wonderful to know our children as adults, seeing them be parents in their own turn.

Besides, it's said that you're never really alone until the kids are out of the house and the dog dies. We still have our dog.

 

[for_his_glory]

My husband and I never had children and in the 15 years we have been married. We might be more settled in our ways since we have been married, but our love and commitment to each other and Christ is still as fresh as the day we married. Our only loneliness is that of our youth and the things we were able to do when we got married, but yet we get to grow older and wiser together everyday as each day is a new adventure.