This is a very sensitive topic for anyone married. In The Villa, this marital discord is revealed in a set of very old journals. A lovely young woman marries a very wealthy man who whisks her off to a majestic house in the mountains. She is in love and her life seems to be perfect, to be envied actually.
As time goes on, she discovers that the handsome prince that she married is absent for long periods and she finds herself alone and abandoned. When he comes home on occasion he’s drunk, distracted, and does not display interest in her.
“What is going on?” she asks herself. When she questions him on his whereabouts, he loses his temper and tells her it’s none of her business. Then one day he brings another woman to her home and makes advanced to her in front of his faithful wife who’s in shock.
What can we deduce from this? Yes, the man’s a cheater and a womanizer. It breaks the faithful wife’s heart but she manages to pull herself together because of the child she’s carrying. One night I a drunken rage, he beats her. How awful!
Such is the evil that trickles down to the unborn child. He can feel his mother’s suffering from the womb. It grips him and he grows up in fear and hatred toward his father. The deadly ripple effects of one man’s actions, therefore, take hold of the next generation.
How do you stop this? Well, we can’t travel back in time to change someone’s actions. Growing up in a home with marital discord I can attest to this. Changing someone who thinks they know it all is one of the hardest things to do unless a miracle happens. So what can we do? Give them time and maybe they’ll realize. If not, we learn from their mistakes and not repeat them in our own lives. I’d go for the later.
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