Can you or your marriage survive infidelity? I was talking to my grandmother sometime ago, and she telling me that my grandfather was a piece of work back in the day. Although they did 50 plus years of marriage, she told me their marriage was not always easy. She encourage many years of my grandfather bringing his check home on Friday and not returning home to Sunday night or Monday morning. She encountered women saying that they were leaving their spouses for only my grandfather to deny that he even knew them. I asked my grandmother why she stayed. She said that she left a few times but would always return. She said that she loved her children and she did not want them to go through life of not having the all the advantages that would benefit them from a two parent home and income. She said that it took years to get over all of what my grandfather did but in the same breath he made sure she had a comfortable life. She always had the biggest house, the nicest clothes and a new Cadillac every year. She said that he afforded her the opportunity to provide well for her children and grandchildren with the best education (including college)and with all of their wants and needs. She also said by staying it afforded them to help a lot of our extended family on both sides. My grandmother felt like she had more to lose by leaving. Now don't get me wrong, she gave him hell all of the way. She did not stand for too much of nothing. Now since my grandfather has passed away, she said that she valued him as a man and a provider. She said that she never stopped loving him and that she able to put a lot of what he did to her away. So I ask couples today, can you survive infidelity?
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