Marriage Actually - An honest look at marriage

Where Did I Go ? part 1

by Marc Audet on July 29th, 2008

When Marye & I married we were anything but saved, (born-again Christians). I was a 20 year U. S. Marine , who had been raised Catholic (going to mass on Sunday morning and living like hell the rest of the week). That was up until I got to Presidio of Monterey, Ca.
Before the Corps I played hockey in a Sunday morning league where I could have racked up between 8 and 20 minutes in the “Sin Bin” (penalty box) before 10am. I was a motorhead, racing my Street Rod Into the wee hours of the morning on Rte. 146 into Rhode Island. I didn’t ride a motorcycle but hung out with “Bikers.” After I went into the Corps, I was still one of those guys nobody messed with. Not that I want to be that person again, but after I was “Saved’ , I changed A LOT!

As a husband, as a dad, and as a man I changed. Mostly for the good, but I lost a lot of my manhood. I was conformed into who I thought the Christian man was supposed to be. I am a good man, an honest man of my word, who is respected and looked up to by most. And not just because I am six-foot-six.

The part of me that I was missing was the boy, now the man in me. You know: the one who loves weapons of every sort, loves to go fishing, still wants to free fall ten thousand feet and open my parachute, rock climb or ski down a double black trail back east or in the Rockies. Camping trips had become setting up and tearing down tents and untangling the kids fishing lines. And that was only once a year. About three years ago I started waking that part of me up. The double Black Diamond trail was skied my first day back on skis in twenty-six years with my brother. More to come next post…

Blessings,

Marc

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