I suspect most women would consider being compared to Gomer the Whore an insult

I'm not a Biblical scholar - but I think comparing your wife to Gomer the whore might be considered an insult pic.twitter.com/yFYnwcs2KR

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700 Club Interviewer: You two actually separated for a little while after you got back. You've already been separated for fifteen months [while your husband was deployed serving as a US Army chaplain]. Did that help or hurt?

Chaplain Darren Turner: well, for us, it was God's ...uh..that was God working in us. We had looked at each other for answers and neither of us had any answers. We were both empty.  So, it took a season of being in the desert ... almost like Gomer and Hosea

Chaplain Turner: Where I had to go far away to really figure out what was going on in me and so I could go back to Heather and offer her something

Chaplain Turner: Instead of trying to take something.

Interviewer: And, Darren, what was the turning point? 

Chaplain Turner: So, uh, one afternoon, I took the kids to meet Heather and that was the first time like in a public setting where we were separated. So that was the first time I had to release the kids, I stayed back and the ran to Mom and then I turned around and got in my car and left.  And so just the weight, the gravity of that situation finally slapped me in the face and woke me up so to speak.  And from there I was ready to fight for my family. And that was when I figured I had to get out of the Army to do that.  The Army wanted me to stay in, but I knew I needed time and space outside of that if I was going to have a fighting chance to win my wife's heart back and the kids. 

Interviewer: And Heather, how did you learn to trust Darren again? Because he had, you know, completely changed and ... I guess what you didn't realize was that he was feeling guilty for not being able to save the men...at least that's what's depicted in the movie

Turner: Right

Interviewer: But, um, how did you learn to trust him again?

Heather:  For me, it was less about learning how to trust Darren and more about learning to trust the Lord in difficult situations.  And so for me it was more about the Lord kind of revealing His will to me for marriage and if He's for marriage ... how can we undo what God has put into plan? And so for me it was just an obedient choice to follow what the Lord's will was and trust that God was going to keep me in His will and bless my children out of an obedient decision to stay married and eventually my emotions caught up to that. But it did take some time. 



Yea, plus Heather got her way by guilt tripping her husband into leaving the military.



In case you want to read the Turners book, here's the info: Thrasher, Travis, Darren Turner, and Heather H. Turner. Indivisible. Nashville, Tenn: Thomas Nelson, 2018. Print.