Stick it out or break it off?

Why is it that more than a million couples divorce each year? Infidelity is probably the first reason we would all think causes a divorce, but what about communication problems, lack of emotional support, emotional and physical abuse, falling out of love or growing apart? Is it due to unsatisfactory sex, constant conflict, or falling in love with someone else? Maybe it's even the financial problems, abuse of alcohol or other drugs, and perhaps even incompatibility. These are all "complaints that are offered not only by Americans, but those in other nations as well" (Lauer & Lauer).
If you ask me, I think it has a lot to do with our culture of convenience and instant gratification. 

"In the 1970s, California and New York began the trend toward no-fault divorce, which is now practiced in all states. In no-fault divorce, no proof for divorce is needed. Neither spouse accuses the other of impropriety or immorality. Rather, the marriage is deemed unworkable and therefore is dissolved" (Lauer & Lauer). Do you see how devastating this can be for a spouse or the children being affected by the divorce? If either or both spouses decide the marriage is no longer a convenience and choses to end the marriage, they can easily do so. 

Although this may seem like the most convenient way to deal with your lack of satisfaction with your marriage, you might want to reconsider. Research has shown that after two years, 70% of divorced couples believe they could have saved the marriage should they have stuck with it and worked through their challenges-and greatly wished they had. 

President Gordon B. Hinckley once said:

 "Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way."

I know that Christ is the best physician out there. He has given us the perfect prescription to mend our broken hearts and heal our strained relationships.  There must have been a pretty great reason for Jesus to have commanded us to "love thy neighbor as thy self", and to forgive those that sin against us "until seventy times seven".  There is peace in living the gospel of Jesus Christ.