A Three-Ring Marriage Beyond dysfunction to a dynamic family life
By Brian Murray Wachtendorf
This is a powerful, one-of-a-kind, true story. Regardless of what you believe, this story will touch you, adden you, challenge you and lift your spirits. A must read for all.
If success is measured by the obstacles that a person surmounts, then this man is the “Bill Gates” of family life. From early childhood to adulthood, he has won a series of personal battles and experienced inspirational triumphs.
Beginning with the turbulent 1960s, this story weaves through the life and uncommon journey of this common man. Parental abuse and neglect, incest, molestation, near death experiences, as well as eventual trouble with the law are only a few of the challenges that had to be overcome before becoming the man (and the father) that Brian is today. The development of his unorthodox family of two wives and seven children is retold with candor and enlightenment. His journey is truly inspirational to all.
Regardless of a person’s belief system, background or family structure, there is something in this book for everyone. Everyone who has ever asked, “Do I make a difference?” should read this book. Fathers especially should read the last chapter of this true story.
Brian Murray-Wachtendorf was born in the early 1960s to alcoholic parents in Little Rock, Arkansas. He spent his formative years in the government housing projects there known as “Highland Courts” and later moved from school to school and foster home to foster home. After a tumultuous teenage period, he enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard. In 1982 he enrolled at the University of Central Arkansas where he received his Bachelor's Degree. Following more rough times, Brian made his living as a professional and award-winning photographer for 10 years.
Remarried now for sixteen and fourteen years to two beautiful, spirited women, Brian lives with his two wives and seven children in a magnificent log home they built themselves on a farm in Texas.
He works as a behavioral specialist with emotionally disturbed students in public schools. He speaks often to young and old alike about the ailments of the modern family . . . or what he calls, “the lack thereof.”
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