Post B2hRx7fupjEP78aFfM by Rlyn@nicecrew.digital
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 (DIR) Post #B2avq7R5FFC9XvxPJg by Rlyn@nicecrew.digital
       2026-01-24T01:34:23.532421Z
       
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       *Random and interesting find! If true!I recently came across a practice from the 1500s in Biertan, Transylvania that stopped me cold.When couples came to the Church seeking divorce, the bishop did not rush to validate feelings or dissolve vows. He placed them in a small room inside the fortified church for six weeks.One bed. One pillow. One table. One chair. One plate. One spoon.No escape from each other. Every meal required cooperation. Every night required humility. Every moment demanded patience and self-control.The Church understood something we have largely forgotten: marriage is a sacrament, not a contract, and most marriages do not fail because love disappears, but because people refuse to suffer well.This was not cruelty. It was ordered penance aimed at reconciliation.The reasoning was simple. If two people could endure six weeks of disciplined proximity, they could endure a lifetime lived in charity.The results speak for themselves. Over roughly 300 years, only one divorce was recorded.Modern culture calls this harsh. But modern culture also presides over historic family collapse.We replaced vows with feelings, penance with escape, and endurance with comfort. The fruit has not been good.Sometimes the old world wasn’t backward. It was honest about what commitments actually cost.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2axMNli9i67QEYOoq by James_Dixon@poa.st
       2026-01-24T01:51:45.936988Z
       
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       @Rlyn > When couples came to the Church seeking divorceI think Jack Benny said it best:"My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never."
       
 (DIR) Post #B2axjLMnFgHWdJqbgG by ChairmanO15@nicecrew.digital
       2026-01-24T01:56:08.718857Z
       
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       This is a very good lesson in teamwork, which is exactly what marriage is about. Two people working together to accomplish a goal. It's not a man versus woman thing, it's teamwork as outlined in the Bible. A man understanding his role, the woman understanding her role to raise a family. ​
       
 (DIR) Post #B2hQHA4rPZ5IRqg9cO by GoyTex@nicecrew.digital
       2026-01-24T03:08:32.283698Z
       
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       a 1930's Texas divorce court judge did something similar to my grandparents after their first kid died. They were fighting so much they just wanted to separate. The judge sat them somewhere, just them by themselves, and had them reconsider. They did, and had 3 more kids, including my mom.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2hQqyswV8EMA3BUtU by mothersmurfer@poa.st
       2026-01-24T02:10:15.428373Z
       
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       @Rlyn how many murders, though?
       
 (DIR) Post #B2hQsDarIkW84GJdtg by Rlyn@nicecrew.digital
       2026-01-24T01:42:56.120615Z
       
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       Same! We just don’t suffer good enough
       
 (DIR) Post #B2hRx7fupjEP78aFfM by Rlyn@nicecrew.digital
       2026-01-24T02:19:41.738722Z
       
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       I hadn’t thought of that!