I would like for you to answer the following questions in your own mind:
- How many couples do you know who have gotten a divorce?
- How many individuals do you know who have remarried since their divorce?
- How many couples do you know whose marriage is headed toward a divorce or who are presently in the midst of getting a divorce?
I wish it were not, but the truth is that divorce is all around us. According to the American Psychological Association somewhere between 40 and 50 percent of couples in the United States divorce.
In the same statement the APA also said the following:
- “Healthy marriages are good for couples’ mental and physical health.”
- “They are also good for children; growing up in a happy home protects children from mental, physical, educational and social problems.”
These two statements force us to take a long hard look at the break down of the home we see around us and realize that with that is also the deterioration of our society. It also drives us to understand that something else is wrong, and that is this — somehow we do not know what we ought to know about marriage.
Men do not know how to act as men, and women do not know how to act as women.
Only when we take this problem seriously and earnestly strive to address it can healing begin to take place.
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