You're a very lucky woman because I have read some interesting statistics on the instability of "cohabitation" and your relationship has lasted 5 times longer than the average. Ceridwen Roberts, senior research fellow in social policy at Oxford University, said: "I think what is worrying is that the research evidence is still showing that many people embark on parenthood in more fragile partnerships and more of these break up."

Frankly, I am concerned, as you are, about the children that may come out of broken family relationships. There is so much evidence that children who are reared in families other than those with a father and a mother (like the one you are fortunately preserving) have much less chance of growing up avoiding the sorrows caused by drugs, teenage pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, suicides and crime.

As far as the existence of God is concerned, I believe that if one wants to, he or she can learn of a certainty, the reality of God, our relationship with him, where we came from before birth, why we are here and where we are going after we die. To me, to obtain the answers to these questions is the most important quest we can be on, otherwise we will wake up someday having missed the whole point of our earthly purpose.

I would enjoy helping you with that process of discovery and coming to know that Jesus is the Christ and that there was a purpose for his ministry and that he lived and died for each of us so that we may have and enjoy eternal life.

Sincerely,

Donny Osmond


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