Most people think that marriage is a contract, where if one party fails their part, the other is released from theirs.
It's not. It's a covenant, where both parties promise to perform, and are held to that performance no matter what the other party does. THAT FEATURE of marriage is needed from time to time to hold it together.
If you're not committed to the marriage as a covenant, no matter how sweet it is, it'll eventually fall apart.
It is my opinion that the denigration of the marriage covenant by our society has set up most family structure for destruction, and that is the cancer that is at the center of most, if not all our current problems as a society.
