There's different ways that a man abandons his family.

Sometimes he just dies, but sometimes emotionally he's dead and distant, or he's over consumed

with work, or he's addicted to his hobbies, or he's just flat out freaking selfish.

And a woman needs its study show that she needs security, and that includes financially, emotionally,

relationally, spiritually.

And when a man takes any of those from her, she's feeling vulnerable.

All right.

Well, howdy, Mark and Grace Triscoll, returning with the Real Marriage Podcast.

Thank you so much for joining us. We love you.

We appreciate you. We're praying for you. And we have real hope from a real God to overcome real

obstacles. And so we're in this great book of the Bible, babe, called Ruth. And today we'll pick up the

story where these three widowed women have to decide what their

go forward plan is.

Maybe if you would for a moment, just kind of summarize what has happened in the story of Ruth

up until this point to catch them up.

What transpired before these ladies became widows?

They were living in Bethlehem and there was a famine and so Elimelech, the husband,

moved them to Moab. They were there for 10 years and in that time frame, the two sons that

were with them, married Moabite women. Elimelech died, the two sons died,

and they're in a godless place.

And so Naomi, the wife, and then the two daughter-in-law's Ruth and Orpa, are faced with a

decision of what does it look like to go forward?

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