WHAT A TOOL: My Wife Has Tattoos: Marriage, New Birth, and the Gospel.

I never dreamed that I would sit on a couch with my future wife in pre-marital counseling listening to her cry and tell stories of drunken nights, listing the drugs she used, confessing mistakes made in past relationships. . . .

I do not deserve the precious gift she is to me. . . .

I don’t deserve to marry someone like her.

It’s one thing for someone to be forgiven, and quite another for someone to be marriage material. Statistically, this is a divorce waiting to happen: “The divorce rate is nearly 50% for women who had only one pre‐marital partner and if that partner did not develop into her husband.”