*NOTE. To answer your questions: no, I have not actually been divorced four times. I’ve been married once, and I’m still married to her, and I’ll never be married to anyone else. The title was tongue-in-cheek. I was writing it from the perspective of the sorts of people who rant about the sanctity of marriage, yet have racked up multiple ex-spouses. Perhaps I should have been more clear about this. In any case, there it is. I appreciate your concern.
Despite the author’s point — and it’s a valid observation — the problem is really that the only marriage is natural marriage. Unnatural marriage is not marriage.
His reference to children of divorce make that case, and he missed it.
I had a boss once who would begin conversations with, “Mary (eyes upward) my, let’s see, fourth, fifth...sixth wife...”
He was impossible to get along with, yet each woman he married was at fault. All of us who knew him thought...well, maybe not.
I had another boss in his late fifties with a lot of framed pictures of beautiful young woman. He saw me looking at them and started from left to right. “That’s Sarah, my second wife, Janice, my third, Karen, (she was a stewardess) my fourth”...all the way to six. All this time I’d assumed they were his daughters. Wife one was not represented because, I’m guessing, she was his age.
Yep, marriage has its problems. But they’re mostly due to the two parties involved.