I watched Susan Shapiro Barash give an interview about a book she wrote called, The Nine Phases of Marriage: how to make it, break it, keep it. During her interview she said, "Divorce is a part of marriage." I disagree with her statement and believe that divorce is only a part of marriage when there's no commitment to marriage. In my grandparents' time, people worked out their differences. Back in the day, when marriage became hard, people didn't throw in the towel but stayed together "for better or for worse."
A lot of people in today's world don't even get married because they are already committed to each other. But if a couple isn't married, what stops them from parting ways when things get hard?
Sometimes bad behavior happens when a marriage becomes hard, including affairs and viewing inappropriate things on the Internet. Dishonest people cover-up their bad behavior by lying, which makes their marriage worse, because they have to deal with an additional thing (lying.) I'm for things that strengthen marriage including: honesty, fidelity, and selflessness. Marriage doesn't have to include divorce unless the partners give up.
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