I’ve known a few people who were married to not so nice people. These spouses were sometimes crazy, and would alienate them from their families. But these husbands always stood by their wives and would strain their relationship with their family. As an outsider, I always blamed the husbands for not standing up to their wives and letting these crazy women break up the family. Of course, I don’t have to live with these crazy women, so it is easy for me to judge.

What would you do? Would you stand up to your spouse if they were not treating your family with the respect they deserved or would you cut off relationships with you family to keep the peace at home? In both the cases I know of, the marriage eventually ended and there was a lot of turmoil beyond what was happening with the family. As one of the husbands said, “I was trying to keep the peace the best I could. I had to live with her.”