(January 6, 2024 at 2:16 pm)neil Wrote:(January 6, 2024 at 2:05 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: That's great. But if you want to posit inequality as the basis for a sound marriage, I'll need to see more than just an unsupported opinion. The most successful marriages I've seen have been based on compromise in a partnership of equals.
Yes, I'm not saying that such marriages don't exist; I pointed out in the OP that almost 17% of marriages are happy.
My point of contention - if you may want to call it that - is that divorce ought to be extremely rare - way, way less than 50%.
I'm likely biased, as I was a kid from a broken home, but I think people change, and that the goal in a sound and lasting marriage should be to guide those changes into harmony rather than divergence. That's obviously not always going to happen, and I think religion could easily be as much a hindrance as a help in that process. Inequality implies that someone is getting stifled.
