Jon and Kate Plus 8

I have been tuning in every Monday night for about a year and a half, and I fell in love with those precious children immediately! Kate was the first person I ever heard of who had PCOS, and I even thought, "What is that?" when I heard her say it. Then after I was diagnosed with it, I found great comfort in watching their 8 children grow and play. When Karl found out that Kate and I have the same thing, he begged me not to watch it anymore in fear that we would have multiples too. :)

I am so disappointed in Jon and Kate right now. I know marriage is hard, and I can only imagine how stressful it is to raise 8 children. However, I also know what it means to fight for a family. Infertility is a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual fight. It's not a fight you endure a few times a week or even a few times a day. It's a constant fight, and not an hour passes that you're not in battle with it.

Jon and Kate know what it's like to fight that fight. They fought it themselves. I am sure at one point their days were plagued with fear and heartache. How do you go through all that, conquer it, and then so easily let your family break in two? On last night's episode, they said the past 7-8 months have been really hard, and from watching the show, there's been obvious tension in their relationship longer than that, but what is 7-8 months when you've been married for 10 years, gone through infertility, had a severely risky pregnancy, and have 8 children together? I don't know how many times this season they've said everything they do is for their children. If you don't care to fight for your marriage because of your spouse, then do it because of your children. Having a family was important enough to them that they fought for that a lot longer than 7-8 months. Now they can just let it go? How sad.

Infertility doesn't make your marriage fireproof, but it does teach you how to fight for something together. I just hope Karl and I don't forget the lessons we've learned through this quite as easily as they did.