My thoughts on divorce

Divorce is more prevalent among Christians than in any other sect or group of people. Why is this? If marriage is a holy institution why are we not the experts at staying married? It would seem that Christians should have the best and happiest marriages. I believe that relationships take lots of work and if you are lazy everything you do will fall apart. It's much easier to run away from a fire than it is to try to put it out. Pride is one of the things that ruin a marriage. I'm sure of it. No one wants to be the one to say I screwed up. No one wants to admit how bad they've been to somebody. When you surrender, you open up yourself to emotional rocketry from your partner and they're going to let you have it( lots of verbal abuse). If you want to heal something you have to go through the pain of healing. This means that you have to take your lumps. I don't believe that any marriage is hopeless, but I will say it is miserable trying to repair them. I've never been married, but I used to hate my stepmother. It took us years, but we worked everything out and now we are best friends. I now call her my mother and treat her as such. I love her so much. When I visit her, we have a total blast and we watch lots of hockey games. We laugh most of them time when we hang out. A marriage is only thrown into the trash when you put it there. If you are lazy you probably won't want to clean up the mess.