Marriage between Man and Woman

 "Fathers don't 'mother' and mothers don't 'father'." A married man and woman are needed to best nurture their children.

Don't let anything come between you

We recently read a book that stressed the importance of not letting children come between the husband and wife, because their relationship with each other is an entirely separate thing from their joint relationship with the children, and must be nourished if they are to be their best as parents.

When we were dating, my (very young and romantically clueless) brother once plopped himself down on the couch between us and started chattering away about something. Leah and I looked at each other and came to a silent agreement: double tickle attack!

My poor brother felt very betrayed. He was used to tickle attacks from me, but he thought Leah was too nice to ever do something so sneaky and underhanded to him! He didn't ever try to insert himself between us again, though, and the incident created a tradition. We now have our own growing troupe of young ones running about, and they often plop themselves down in strange places, but none of them dares to sit between us without asking permission first... because they know what will happen: double tickle attack!