PUTIN ANNOUNCES THE ESSENTIAL NATURE OF A MOTHER AND A FATHER

For all those single parents out there - this is not aimed at you.  Especially if you are doing your best just to survive day to day.

I will say this; at almost any cost, stick it out if there are marital difficulties.  Like most trials, they pass.  For those who throw in the towel on marriage, I do not think that we can ever understand the reverbations through time, that those decisions can make.  Sometimes, you just have to walk away where the danger of sticking in a relationship far outweighs the dangers of walking away.  In my marriage, I have run the numbers and there is a 99.7% chance of marital failure based on our circumstances.  And, even then, I see it as a life's work to make my marriage work.  I am a survivor and I believe in fighting the good fight - even against insurmountable odds.  In some ways - the joy or fun of it, is seeing if you can - when it seems impossible.  If you have watched the movie, Interstellar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahUSiynvRlc

It deals with doing the impossible.

I cannot even begin to make a call on my wife's mother who left her step-father after incidences of abuse and marital infidelity.  In some ways, I understand his massively passive-aggressive lashing out against her personality type (a person who was raised without love by her parents - I met her father before he died..... and I was not impressed in the least with him).  In some ways, I feel for my wife's step-dad and what he had to endure at her hand.

BUT - having said that, there were five sons who needed an intact home - almost regardless of how dysfunctional it was.  The general idea is that the abuse of my wife ended when she stood up to her step-dad - and that it did not include male on male abuse (of the remaining five boys).  I wonder how things would have turned out for that family, had they had something intact, over the fragments that it turned into.  As I married my wife, the parents were slipping into the abyss and on a path of no return.

Anyway - coming from a guy who was firmly planted in a Marxist state for most of his life, this video is amazing:

https://youtu.be/z1mERkuxTfg

I really respect Putin.  As the West slides into a state-centric, homo-centric and a Muslim-centric, "it takes a village" (as said by the village idiot) culture that will bring it to a painfully suicidal ending, Putin is working to actually bring his country to a good place once again in both of those areas.  Oh - and the Polish folks, as well.  I never thought I would say that I respect the Poles and the Russians more than the clowns that have run/are running this asylum......  Trump excluded, of course.