This is reposted from "Marriage Matters 2 Me" a page on Facebook with permission.

Where do i begin? Every woman that i, Cameron A Bailey Sr, have ever hurt in any way from 1970 to today, i apologize and ask that you please forgive me. On behalf of every male that has ever hurt any woman in her lifetime, i ask that they be forgiven.

i must confess as a man who is in the process of becoming mature that in my first marriage i was immature! No matter how much i wanted it to succeed, i couldn't maintain the temporary success that me and my first wife experienced because i was immature.

There was a point in that marriage that it mattered 2 us and it worked out well. Then it got to a point where we were off balance; it mattered to one of us and not to the other and then it reversed between us several times. Finally, i fell off and when i was ready to get back on it was too late.

For far too long, marriage has mattered more to women than it has to men. Until a man is more concerned about his marriage than his job, money and the boys; he is not ready for marriage. Marriage is not the place for OJT. Yet, because of our ignorance of who we are as a person (male/female), we enter marriage trying to unite two people as one and don't who we are uniting. Furthermore, we bring baggage, pain, emotional sores, unhealed envy and hatred from past relationships into a new relationship under the deception that we are starting off new!

The fact is that until we take the gloves off and be honest with ourselves, we will continue to leave a trail of damaged men/women behind for the next person to deal with. This pattern has continued for so long that we try to find a man/woman who is still fairly new to the relationship tango.

No matter where you are in your relationship, if you are willing to grow up and face the facts then your relationship will improve; it takes 2. It is a matter of choice, do you want it to work or not?

i DECLARE from today forward the REVIVAL of MARRIAGE as a covenant in Jesus' name!

Spread the word! i call on all males, all females, "He Who Finds a Wife", all five-fold ministries, 31Status, P4CM, all Christians, all those dating, all those engaged, all those married, all those divorced and any where in-between to bring our different perspectives together as the whole under "the One Hope, One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all" Eph 4:4b-5 NIV. No where in this scripture does it say anything about denomination, jew, black, white or anything else that we formerly chose to segregate ourselves because of.

i humbly, call upon all to like, share and post this message everywhere.