Couples that disregard themselves are bound to be in commotion all the time. What is disregard? Disregard is to pay little or no attention to your spouse. This means that it is possible for a couple to live like a bachelor or a spinster in their matrimonial home. The husband does not know that he has a wife and a wife live her life as if she has no husband, yet the two are living under the same roof. A condition in which married couples do not know whether a spouse has eaten for days, taken bath for some days, or is clad on dirty clothes or not. Disregard also mean to treat your spouse without due respect. A situation in which couple do not take notice that their spouses will react negatively if he or she goes against the norms of a marital relationship. Married partners may live together yet disregard and disrespect may exist. Some couples get married and still keep their old and new friends. Some pay more attention to their old and new friends needs more than the comfort of their married partners. This is disregard. Those husbands and wives, who comfortably sleep, eat and have pleasures without the company of their married partners practice marriage with disregard. Is it good for a husband to be in a hotel room with another woman, while his wife is at home waiting for him to return? Is it a good marital practice for a woman to be with another man in a hotel room while her husband is at home waiting for her to return? Those couples who keep coming back late at nights to their matrimonial homes because they have” new catch” are treating their marriage with disregard.
Read this story that buttresses disregard and disrespect.”Mr.Livinus, a civil servant working in the Local Government Office is married to Evelyn a house wife, but the mother of the family. God blessed them with five children. One day, Evelyn went to visit her parents. Her husband, Mr. Livinus invited his woman friend; Martha, to his matrimonial home. Martha went into the family kitchen and cooked the evening meal.Mr. Livinus and Martha ate together while the children ate as they use to. The family including their stranger Martha watched movies on the television together that evening. When the children went to bed, Mr.Livinus and Martha went into the bedroom belonging to Mr.Livinus and Evelyn to sleep.Eventually, the first son of the family, Ebuka,a seventeen year old, who just returned from boarding school, went into his parents’ bedroom to report to his father that he had fever, only to discover that his father and Martha were naked and having sexual intercourse.Mr.Livinus got down from the strange woman, scolding Ebuka his son. He said,” why are you not sleeping?”,”why are you moving up and down this night”.Ebuka ran out from his parents’ bedroom because he was ashamed on what he saw. It was in the palour that he informed his father, Mr. Livinus that he is feverish and needs immediate attention.Mr.Livinus told Ebuka to go to the box under the family dining table to take some drugs. His father was so ashamed that he could not stand to attend to his son. In the morning, Martha left the house of Mr.Livinus.That morning, Mr.Livinus gave money for his children to buy beverages and bread for breakfast.Mr.Livinus did not appear on the table with his children unlike him, he could not withstand the sight of his son and other children. When Evelyn came home two days later, Ebuka narrated what his father did on her absence. Evelyn after three days decided to ask Mr.Livinus, and he scolded Evelyn not to ask him that type of issue again. This behavior of Mr.Livinus continued to put slurs in the family welfare and wellbeing till date. The love existing between Mr.Livinus and Evelyn his wife grew cold.Mr.Livinus did not respect his wife Evelyn and his children. He showed disregard to his wife by bringing a strange woman into his matrimonial home. There is no peace when disregard is found in a marital relationship.