The writer of this vivid account of moms going almost full trainwreck seems to be a generation or two, at least, from any spiritual foundation at all. The intellectual and moral foundations aren't good either.
The solution for diminishing returns from pleasurable activities is to cut back on overindulging and go help someone besides yourself for a change, not to go out and find even more expensive and perilous avenues of self-indulgence.
The solution to pervasive meaninglessness and sinful desires is to find what God wants you to do, and then do it. Starting with believing in Jesus Christ as your Savior from sin.
Their recruitment of other women into this lifestyle is actively wicked.
There was a heartbreaking local story some years back, about a mother of three who died in a hotel room of a drug overdose because her dealer--who was there the whole time--mixed it too strong.
God help their husbands and children.
James Dobson is like garlic to a vampire to this type of person, but his "Love Must Be Tough" book addresses things like how to respond to a spouse who wants an open marriage.
A boomer apologizes, albeit without much clarity.
"It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs," Jesus said; Matthew 15:26.
I recently understood that I am spending my life in rebuilding spiritual and practical foundations that had been foolishly undermined by previous generations.
Several months ago I was reading a nonfiction book by Christian author Paul Tournier, and made it about three-quarters of the way through before being drawn away to other things.
When I picked it up this last week and finished reading it, I found references to about a dozen Bible passages that had come up in my daily Bible readings in the interim, mostly obscure Old Testament personages with a variety of afflictions; Tournier was a Swiss doctor famous for connecting his Christianity with his medical practice.
I also read a Christian fiction book this last week: Deadline, by Randy Alcorn. One day, what I read in the book mirrored my morning Bible reading on that same day.
"A work of creation was three-fold, an earthly trinity to match the heavenly; the Creative Idea, timeless and passionate, which is the image of the Father; the Creative Energy, begotten of the idea and working in time, which is the image of the Word; the Creative Power, the meaning of the work and its response in the individual soul, which is the image of the indwelling Spirit."
-- P. D. James, summarizing Dorothy L. Sayers' description
