Marriage is no exception to other states of life. In every department of life we must expect difficulties. For the sake of success in business or a profession people must patiently endure many inconveniences and frequently hardships. The home is the biggest business of life. lt is worth while exercising restraint and forbearance for the sake of the family just as much and even more than for success in business. The Catholic Church recognizes all the difficulties of married life, and has provided for them by suitable remedies, but not by absolute divorce with the right to re-marry. Divorce, has done more to break up families than all the difficulties and differences that occur in family life. Man is fickle. When he pledges his troth to be faithful to the maiden he takes in marriage, he means it. But the heart of man is restless. He seeks novelty. A new face captivates him. Infatuated by a new love, he not only loses his love for her to whom he pledged it, but begins to hate her because she is an obstacle to his new attraction. If there were no possibility of a new union he would dismiss from his thoughts the object of his temptation. But with the hope of a new union he seeks to break the old. He creates a condition of incompatibility which eventually leads to the severance ofthe marriage tie, and then hastens to form a new alliance. Little difficulties and misunderstandings which would vanish or be overcome by patience, if marriage held until death, assume larger and larger proportions where there is prospect of a new union. For sixteen centuries there was no such thing as divorce in Christendom, and during that period people, although they had their trials then as now, lived contentedly. Single life has its difficulties as well as married life. The only way to avoid difficulties is to cease to be mortal. Every career of life has its misunderstandings and hardships and suffering. Marriage is no exception. Married life offers no immunity from the cares, responsibilities and misunderstandings of life.
(Marriage Problems by Rev. Martin J. Scott S.J.)
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