Since Don Britton has been there and done that when it comes to marriage, he’d like to save others the trouble.
The East Ridge small business owner and volunteer pastor was divorced in 1975 and ran into trouble in his second marriage before he and his wife, Rita, turned things around.
The Brittons, who will host a marriage enrichment seminar at the Gateway Teaching Center next Saturday, say the key for each spouse is to apply biblical concepts to their role in the marriage and to the marriage in general.
“I’m 63 and my wife is 60,” Don Britton said. “We have as much passion as any 20-year-olds. We enjoy this time in our lives together.”
Marriage counseling and church-sponsored marriage events can offer help to a point, he said, but each spouse has a personal responsibility to examine his or her own spirituality and to know God.