Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.
There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse.
One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.
Divorce is not the end of the world. It's worse to stay in an unhealthy marriage. That's a worse example for the children.
It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.
You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself.
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.
Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.