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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe if she was less of an asexual shrew he'd have stayed? Doesn't the wife bear any responsibility for making a marriage work?

It's a marriage, not a life sentence.[/quote]

Why do people then vow "as long as we both shall live" if they are not contemplating a permanent arrangement?

I haven't been to a wedding yet that had those words subtracted from the vows.

That is why some people expect permanence in imperfect situations.

I also believe there's a second decision point after marriage when people decide to have kids.  People need to still be all in on the marriage at that point.  My son had a bunch of friends whose parents were getting divorced when they were in kindergarten.  I always wondered how people could flip their attitudes around so drastically within 5 years. I know little kids are hard.  But still...[/quote]

Since roughly half of all US marriages end in divorce, expecting marital permanence verges on delusional.

(And, PP, "as long as we both shall live" is from the Christian marriage ceremony. Not everyone is Christian. And even many Christians marry in civil ceremonies, not religious ceremonies.)[/quote]

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