“I don’t know why marrying for love and friendship is considered a negative or secular ideal”
I wanted to clarify that I intended for my piece “Please Don’t Marry Off Your Children” to be a stand-alone message, and not an explanation for early divorces.
When I’m asked to give reasons for what seems to many like an increase in early divorces, I’m always careful to answer that I don’t know of good data on the numbers or reasons for divorce.
In working with couples, I see different areas of general struggle, but when it comes to trying to pinpoint why certain kinds of divorces happen, I feel that some matters are too important, complex, and sensitive for casual speculation.
Every divorce is an individualized, subjective experience affecting real people, often traumatic, and I would never want my writing to be perceived as trying to reduce such a painful phenomenon to generalized social conjecture.
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