JEAN'S PROFILE

"Jean Oathout writes from her heart. Her first recently released book, SO YOU PLAN TO MARRY A MAN, is as much a personal testimony of what she’s learned from God as a book of helps for wives and gals desiring to be married one day.

Jean was born in Tacoma Park, MA, in 1937. Her father died when Jean was six, her mother remarrying when Jean was eleven years old and moving the family to New York State.

In 1955, Jean married an Air Force man and had three sons. However, the marriage failed. Jean later remarried and had one more son. Her new husband relocated the family in Vermont in 1983, where they “homesteaded,” growing most of their food and living without electricity for most of seventeen years.
Unfortunately for Jean, the second marriage also had its problems, both she and her husband “having issues.”

 Jean found it hard to be a submissive wife and wanted to leave. However, at the Lord’s prompting, she stayed and learned how to deal with life according to the way her husband wished. Through these difficult years, Jean started to journal, putting her writings in poetic form with the thought that some day she would share them with other women.

Finally in 1999, Jean had to leave her married life and seek inward healing that only God could provide. Over the years, she’s come to realize that she needed to forgive and go on with her life. She has fellowship with a body of believers in a local church and has many friends in the Madrid, NY, community."

Posted by  Marsha Hubler on her blog, 5/28/12

http://www.facebook.com/l/DAQHqSRw1/marshahubler.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/on-writing-meet-the-author/

My husband and I are learning to be friends now, something we should have taken time for before marriage!

I updated this post 1/21/13, changing some of the information at the end of Marsha's post. I am working on some poems for another possible manuscript.