Brother ○○,
Let me first add punctuation to your question so it’s easier to address:
Q: How should I ask my wife, “Why do women nowadays want to get to know several men at the same time?”
Let me analyze your question:
“Why do women nowadays want to get to know several men at the same time?” — this sentence looks like an objective question. But you are not truly trying to understand why “women nowadays” behave this way.
What you really want to know is why your ex-wife did this. Otherwise, you would not have asked, “How should I ask my wife?”
Based on this, it seems you are using an “objective question” to wrap up a personal accusation toward your ex-wife. If you question her in this way, do you think she will not hear it as interrogation or condemnation?
As long as you still carry condemnation toward her, your relationship cannot be restored, because you have already assumed that “your ex-wife must first admit her fault or guilt to you.” You may think this is reasonable, but there are two things you may not have considered:
1. Confessing guilt is an act of self-denial.
Without a very strong motivation, a person’s inner “self-protection mechanism” naturally resists confessing guilt to another person. Once one confesses guilt, the relational hierarchy shifts:
you become the one above, and your ex-wife becomes the one beneath.
Would she agree to rebuild the relationship in this form? Do you think she would willingly accept that?
2. A slap cannot be made with one hand.
Have you considered whether you, too, made mistakes in the marriage that drove her to leave you?
If you also contributed to the breaking of the marriage, then addressing only her issue of “getting to know several men at the same time” will not restore the relationship. I believe it cannot.
This is why we need God to be the mediator in a marriage.
Seeing a relationship from our own perspective makes it easy to notice the other person’s faults but very hard to see our own—because even if the other person points them out, we tend to argue, justify, or defend ourselves. This is our “self-protection mechanism.”
Only when we face God—whose authority and position are above us—can we confess freely and willingly.
And it must be each spouse confessing their own sins before God, not accusing the other person’s sins before God.
Repentance has always been a personal matter, never a tool for blaming others.
Only when one sees one’s own shortcomings can a broken relationship begin to heal.
But if you hold tightly to “how the other person hurt me,” that attachment will become an unmovable wall between you.
Let me pray for you:
Lord Jesus, we thank You for giving Yourself for us, showing us that the sinless One paid the price for the sinful, all because of love. Yes, Lord—God is love. Because of love, You are patient and kind toward humanity, and Your love never fails.
Lord, Brother ○○ is in a difficult situation: a broken marriage, the responsibility of raising two special-needs children, and a heavy burden on his shoulders. We ask You to touch his heart, draw him closer to You, let him see and experience Your compassion, and let him feel deeply that this is grace we do not deserve. You came to atone for our sins, not to condemn us.
Lord, have mercy on our human limitations. Please strengthen Brother ○○, so that in the pain of being abandoned by his ex-wife, he may learn Your example, rely on You to bear the pain, and receive Your comfort. Work also in the relationship between him and his ex-wife—so that both may look to You, confess their own sins, repent, and acknowledge their faults. And may they forgive one another, for You taught us: “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.”
Lord, only through mutual forgiveness can wounds be healed and the relationship restored—restored in a way that becomes more beautiful and more cherished than before.
In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ we pray, Amen.