What?
Emulating Jesus isn’t good enough?
We’re supposed to follow people instead?
Pfft. Jesus never suffered a bad marriage. /sarc
Although Madame Leseur obviously did the best she could with what she had to work with, I wouldn’t want anyone to get the idea that the best a woman can hope for in marriage is, “Fake it ‘til you make it to an early and painful death.”
There are worse things than divorce, and one of them is turning to idolatry in order to please a spouse.