Jon and Kate

SO... I have hesitated to write this post for sometime, but I am again camera less for a few days, long story, so here I go.

I loved the show Jon and Kate plus 8. (Obviously, notice my blog name) I would watch every week and make Jerm watch. During football season there was no halftime watching, that would be Jon and Kate time, Jerm would text a friend, who's wife made him do the same, and they loved making fun of the show. I started watching when they did the little 1 hour specials, before it was a show. I had seen every episode, some twice. I have read Kate's books. I really became obsessed when we had fertility issues and we were one month away from going the same route with fertility treatments that got them their 2 and 6. I felt like I knew them, weird I know. So lets say I was a fan.
The show is about two parents, Jon and Kate, and their kids, twins and sextuplets. Now, unless you have been hiding under a rock, or possibly in Siberia like my step-dad, you have heard that they are divorcing. I won't go into all of that, but pick-up any magazine to learn more. What I want to discuss is the ridiculousness of these two selfish people. They, in their show, say that everything they do is for their children. Well hello get help and save your marriage FOR YOUR CHILDREN! Less than a year ago they traveled to Hawaii and renewed their vows in front of the kids. Sadly a couple months later they are getting divorced. Their kids don't know that it was all for TV. They just saw their parents tell each other that they would be together forever no matter what. I felt so jipped, I thought that this was a good christian family that really cared about each other and their family. I also feel responsible, because of their popularity, and the show their marriage died. So I was very disappointed, I loved that show and now I cannot watch it. It makes me so sad and I just want to scream at the TV.
I am not going to lecture too much but if a marriage is in trouble put God first. Nothing is impossible or unhealable for God. Be a serving, compassionate wife and a loving, faithful husband just as the bible commands and nothing can interfere with your marriage.
I cannot speak for husbands because I am a wife, so here are a few favorite bible verses as a wife.
Col 3:18 Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting to the Lord.
Pro 25.24 Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife
Matthew 19:4-6 Jesus answered, "Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh' So then, they are no longer two but but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate."

I feel that I need to add that divorce for some families makes the family happier and healthier. I definately know that from personal experience with family members and friends. I just feel that our society makes it so easy and ok for families to be split and marriages to be dissolved. Only in my opinion, for what that is worth, do I think that maybe Jon and Kate could have listened to that advice.