In the beginning, God designed the family to be a Fortress — a sanctuary built on the rock of Unconditional Love. He gave us animals like elephants and dogs as living reminders of what love looked like before the Fall: loyalty without agenda, empathy without condition, and a heart that never forgets its own. A marriage was meant to reflect this divine purity — a sacred vow to bury the 'Self' so that the 'Us' may live.

But the Fortress is rarely broken from the outside. It is destroyed from within. Just as in Eden, the moment the 'Selfish Loin' whispers, the Forbidden Fruit appears. It promises excitement but delivers devastation — an obsessive affair, a wandering desire, a moment of selfishness that dismantles the foundation children depend on. When a spouse reaches for that fruit, they are not merely breaking a rule; they are tearing apart the emotional blueprint of their family.

Yet the true tragedy comes after the act. Like Adam and Eve hiding among the trees, the betrayer reaches for the fig leaves of Self-Preservation: rewriting history, vilifying the faithful spouse, retreating into silence, and casting estrangement over the home to conceal the truth. This is how Empathy dies. This is how a marriage built on decades of love is erased to protect the lie that destroyed it.

But redemption is still possible — if the truth is allowed to burn. Healing demands transparency. Restoration requires abandoning the fig leaves and stepping into the light. A family cannot heal if one person is trying to win at the expense of another. The goal is not victory over each other — the goal is the family winning together, returning to the same side of the chessboard and checkmating the darkness that entered through deception.

Family Lives Matter exists to guide families back to the light. We honor those who stayed true to their vows not with bitterness, but as lighthouses showing what is possible when Self is buried and Love is guarded. For the ones who strayed, this is not a demand for romantic reunion; it is a call to demolish the walls of silence. It is a command to end estrangement, to stop protecting the lie, to confess the truth, and to rebuild the emotional bridge your children still need.

It is never too late to stop dying inside. It is never too late to let bitterness vanish. It is never too late for Unconditional Empathy to live again — divorced or not. We must restore the institution of the Family so no parent or child leaves this earth believing a lie was stronger than the Truth.