Divorce

Marriage is under attack. Society views marriage as a very light contract. No fault divorces make it easier to terminate a marriage with an unwanted spouse than it can be to terminate an employment relationship with an unwanted employee.
“Because of the hardness of our hearts the Lord does not currently enforce the consequences of the celestial standard.”
“For most marriage problems the remedy is not divorce but repentance. Often the cause is not incompatibility but selfishness.”
“Family instability decreases parental investment in children.”
“In a marriage relationship festering is destructive, forgiving is divine.”
If you are already descending into the low state of “marriage in name only” . . .
Even those who felt that their spouse was entirely to blame should not act hastily. One study found no evidence that divorce or separation typically made adults happier than staying in an unhappy marriage. Two out of three unhappily married adults who avoided divorce reported being happily married 5 years later.
“I’m sure the Lord love and blesses husbands and wives who lovingly try to help spouses struggling with such deep problems as . . . the longterm consequences of childhood abuse.”
Lehi taught Jacob, “thou knowest the goodness of God and he shall consecrate thine affliction for thy gain.”
“A good marriage does not require a perfect man or perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman comitted to strive together towards perfection.”
To attain the happy marriage they hope for . . . means children who bring with them . . . burdens.”