Grow Grit & Virtue (In Pursuit of God)

Grow Grit & Virtue (In Pursuit of God)

Divorce Is Not a Cure For Hot Flashes, and Hormones Don’t Annul Vows

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Thad Cardine
Aug 15, 2025
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Renovate, don’t bulldoze.

‘The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.’ (Proverbs 14:1) — the question isn’t whether the heat is real, but whether we’ll build or tear.

The idea that the solution to midlife strain is to burn the house down is one of the most destructive lies we tell ourselves.

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