Comments on: Prioritizing Your Child by Focusing on Yourself http://newsletter.marriage.eharmony.com/2007/09/what-comes-first-hal-runkel/ Free Marriage Articles, Advice and Tips For Better Communication, Less Fighting and More Intimacy Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:56:46 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Becky http://newsletter.marriage.eharmony.com/2007/09/what-comes-first-hal-runkel/comment-page-1/#comment-2384 Becky Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:09:22 +0000 http://newsletter.marriage.eharmony.com/2007/09/what-comes-first-hal-runkel/#comment-2384 My mom taught me this at an early age. she was a young widow with five kids under the age of eight. I am the oldest. My mom's advice that I took as soon as I had the first of my three boys. Simple: "A father shows how much he loves his children by loving their mother." I just made it my own by saying "A mother shows how much she loves her children by loving their father." I am a woman first, a wife and THEN a mother. My husband and I have been married 25 years. God created me first, and then I became a wife and THEN God blessed us with children. Why should I mess with God's priorities? My mom taught me this at an early age. she was a young widow with five kids under the age of eight. I am the oldest.

My mom’s advice that I took as soon as I had the first of my three boys. Simple: “A father shows how much he loves his children by loving their mother.” I just made it my own by saying “A mother shows how much she loves her children by loving their father.”

I am a woman first, a wife and THEN a mother. My husband and I have been married 25 years. God created me first, and then I became a wife and THEN God blessed us with children. Why should I mess with God’s priorities?

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