Negotiations and Love Songs

Negotiations and Love Songs
NUMBERS 30:1- 16

About a year after he got married, one of my students set off from Los Angeles for Chicago, driving the opposite way to the one recommended in the song “Route 66,” in order to begin graduate school. Only subsequently in an e-mail did he tell me about how hesitant his wife was about this move. “Some days she just breaks down and starts crying,” he said, and added, “There are so many things about marriage that no one ever really talks about! I have learned that making big life decisions is difficult, more difficult when two people are making them together.”...