by Michael Ojelabi

Created on: January 24, 2012   Last Updated: January 25, 2012

Marriage is a sacred aspect of life that was supposed to last for the tenure of the lifetime of the two parties. But since it was not designed by the creator that both spouses should die at the same time, one would die, and leave the widow or widower to follow thereafter, as it is a sure bet that we all have to die someday. Somehow, love and relationship go sour, after many a close and pleasant moments. But that is the true aspect of life. It now takes the wisdom and tenacity of the couple, or the wisest of the two to patch up with the difficult and rough times to keep and maintain the sanctity of the home, the relationship, and the unity of the family. After all, Grand Pa Adam did not put Grand Ma Eve away after the great loss of Paradise.

Where the two, or one forbearing party, failed to show understanding and perseverance, the marriage, as they say, would hit the rocks, and each party would go his or her way by the path of divorce. Where the two agreed to divorce, it is right and noble that the two parties maintain respect and dignified role for themselves and the ex-spouse while they continue with their lives within the larger society. This is the ideal and required standard for the sanctity of their new separate lives, and equally for the protection of their children, if any.

The attitude and intentions of the former wife of leading GOP Presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich, is unbecoming of a woman of good virtue and honor. For whatever reason, the timing was wrong, while the approach was ill-advised. There are some steps in this life that we rather have to approach with good judgment, tact and decorum. Should we follow that path, we would always come out of every situation justified and vindicated, much more honorable and very well respected than when we first approached the issue.

Without making effort to address the perennial issues between the two parties, and while striving to remain painstakingly non-partisan in the general matters, one needs to put it to former Mrs. Gingrich and the television station that they would not be the sole electorate that would determine the outcome of the 2012 American Presidential elections. Mr. Gingrich could have been guilty of some past insensible flirtatious misdemeanors or some other well-known failures of man, for which he was supposed to have suffered and demonstrated some kind of remorse and penitence, either in private or in public. As matured individuals, both parties were supposed to have imbibed the age-old

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