Divorce is manmade... we should eliminate it... what can you say?

Then you would have to come up with an alternative solution. How would you handle the husband who brutalizes his wife? Or a wife who is constantly unfaithful to her husband? You are going to force them to stay together? The sad fact about marriage is that some couples are not ready or not suited for marriage and just shouldn't enter into it. Less societal pressure might help. As would a more positive image in media (say soap operas for example). but neither is likely to happens. The argument that divorce is man made won't fly. So are marriage, government, economics, and technology. Man made has no enherent negative connotation.

A relationship fails because it was never properly made in the first place, People no longer discuss what they want and need in a relationship, they just take anyone and hope like crazy that that person will change, and low and behold the person doesn't change, because the person was not aware that was something that you are are not able to live with, I will use my own life as an example, My ex husband and I never discussed how our family was going to be provided for, I assumed that he would work and support me and our children, Not so, He was a firm believer that he only work at a place where he was in charge of the staff and they did his bidding, Any thing else was beneath his dignity and his standards, So I was the one who had to work and support our family while he sat at home looking for some thing suitable for himself. In the 45 years I have known him he worked 9 years. Now you tell me how you would have dealt with that by focusing and resolving our problems. I would love to hear your answer, because for 27 years I never got one from him until I left him and he couldn't understand why.

Having been divorced twice, I obviously don't think it should be eliminated. Life is too short to stay in a miserable relationship, and some marriages are downright dangerous to one or both of the people involved. I do agree, however, that people shouldn't go into marriage thinking that they can always get divorced if it doesn't work out. Marriage is hard work. My first two marriages... I got married for the wrong reasons. In my current marriage - which will be my last - I married my soul-mate for the right reasons. I think that makes a big difference. Thought-provoking question!