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Promise keeper, heartbreaker
You knew he wasn't listening. He was a great father and we knew we were loved, but day to day he wasn't present.
-- Mike McCartney, on his experience growing up as the younger son of Promise Keepers founder Bill McCartney.
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That moment was the quintessential definition of their marriage. Here's a guy who has just unloaded on Lyndi the heaviest burden, and he goes off to coach a team.
-- Rev. James Ryle, Bill McCartney's pastor, describing how McCartney confessed to his wife Lyndi that he had committed adultery earlier in their marriage.
From: "A Marriage Gone Bad Struggles for Redemption," in the Oct. 29 New York Times.
SALON | Oct. 30, 1997