I heard this the other day, what do you think?

"When you take away all of the BS, all of the veneer and remove all of the name calling and blaming that goes on in a divorce 90% of the time what happened was someone didn't want to grow up."

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When things are going ravishingly well, we must work at it. When dry and difficult times come we must work at it.
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Denying that my marriage is mortal doesn’t make that promise any stronger. It does not make my marriage stronger, in fact I think it makes it more vulnerable.

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