Not "ex." There really is no such thing as an "ex" spouse.
I hate being called a single mom. When I think "single mom," I think someone who had a child out of wedlock. My husband and I were married for eight years when our son was born. So I don't think I should be called a single mom.
Romans 7:2-3 states:
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
So...I am not free to find someone else or remarry. Now if my husband were to die (no, I do NOT wish that), then I would be able to find someone else. Not that I particularly want to.
Jesus says in Matthew 5:32--But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Get that? Marry a divorced woman and you are committing adultery! And I might add that fornication here means just that--fornication. Not adultery. Nor is it an umbrella term for any and all sexual sins (like adultery). Matthew is a Jewish book, and Jews had a betrothal period that was just about as binding as marriage. The account of Joseph and Mary is a good example. Had Mary actually been fooling around, Joseph could have divorced her at that point and it wouldn't have been a sin. But once the vows are said, it's a done deal.
My point? In God's eyes I am still bound to my husband. That is why I still wear my ring.
"Why would you want him back?" I can hear people saying.
To any Christians reading this--Aren't you glad God doesn't take that attitude with us when we screw up?
