Should Christians have a monotonous marriage?

This question was raised recently by a young couple who joined our marriage study. The old farts proceeded to give them a run-down of their experiences over the years.

The wife in the UK trying to raise support for the orphanage they'd founded while the husband was in Africa trying to find food during a famine.

A dual-military couple where the husband was deployed and had to wait three weeks to come home because he caught COVID while his wife was stateside with a baby who had COVID and no sitter.

A couple with five kids who decided to become foster parents and were immediately placed with a sibling group of six. And the dad regularly travels to Taiwan for work.

A husband who tends to their small farm in Minnesota during the weekend and works for a university during the week that sent him to cross-train Vietnamese shrimpers in Louisiana while his wife was pregnant with twins.

A woman with three small kids who gets cancer while her husband is recovering from a concussion after slipping off a fireman pole—and then he's diagnosed with that disease where his body turns sugar into alcohol and if he has a cookie he gets drunk.

A couple with three adult sons who have been married for 35 years who apply for Medicare and discover that he never filed the marriage certificate and they're not legally married.

A husband and wife who sold their small business and their home, bought an RV to travel the country, and watched it burn to the ground in the Eisenhower Tunnel on I-70 a week later.

A couple who married even though she has short-term memory loss and wakes up every morning with no memory of the last 5 years.

No, wait…that was 50 First Dates.

Finally, a wife who took a DNA test and discovered she had three children she didn't know about.

The young couple decided monotony didn't sound so bad after all, but even if that's not possible, they will definitely shoot for a monogamous marriage. They can't imagine going through such disasters with anyone else.

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