Christian nodded. “Yes, yes, I do. But I am so weighed down by this cumbersome burden that I can no longer enjoy their company like I used to. In fact, it makes me feel more like I don’t even have a family.” (But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none. – 1 Cor. 7:29)