It’s ridiculous what’s happening to marriage today. For every person who says, “I do,” there’s another who says, “I’m through.” With marriage, every passing day finds the distance between the marriage altar and the divorce court growing shorter and shorter.
Why is this? It’s partly due to the fact that we have been sold a bill of goods. People who ought to know better have told us that love is the basis of marriage. Love, they define as a romantic feeling over which we have no control. So we have come to believe that when we no longer feel romantically toward our mate it is okay to get a divorce. People say things like this all the time: “I want a divorce because I don’t love him/her anymore.”
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