My wife and I were having a bit of a spat several years ago. Not too bad, but the kids could tell. My one daughter asked “are you guys getting a divorce?” (Sad - but so many of their friends have divorced parents).
We explained no, we are not getting a divorce, we’re just mad, and we’ll iron things out. My wife said “When we got married and said “’till death do we part” we both meant it. And I said “Divorce is not an option.”
My other daughter, after thinking about it for a minute, asked; “Is that an option you sign before; or can you sign it after you get married?”
Once I was talking to a friend about my sister’s divorce, and she told me that all the people she knew who were married to spouse number 2 might have stayed married to number 1, if they had just worked as hard during marriage number 1.
The attitude that this marriage will stay together come hell or high water is an essential attitude in my book.LOL.