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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s your opinion? If your spouse is struggling (mental / physical / behavioral health issue) do you view trying to stand by / support them now matter the cost to your well-being part of your vows? Or do you walk away because your well being trumps vows?

I’m not currently in this situation - just wondering what people think [/quote]

"'Til death do us part."
"As long as you both shall live."

Sounds pretty straightforward to me. Questions like OP's are exactly why marriage has become increasingly disposable, and why it is essentially a failed instrument of social control. Once you're married, [i]you[/i] no longer exist, and so your needs/desires/well-being no longer matter, except insofar as they are required to sustain [i]the marriage.[/i]

Don't make promises you can't keep. And for the vast majority of people, that means DON'T MAKE PROMISES. There are no offramps or loopholes in marriage vows. They are overly broad by design. And in the end, it's about entering into a contract based on wildly incomplete information and bound together by intangbiles. Yes, good luck with that.[/quote]

Marriage is already disposable. It always has been. At least the wife portion of the marriage has always been disposable.[/quote]

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