Several times in recent months, my wife has greeted me as I returned from work with the statement, "You will never guess who is getting divorced!" Sometimes there is little surprise and I can see the parting as though it were an easy afterthought. The struggle was apparent and the result is accepted. But every so often, the news comes as a shock so poignant that it makes me feel as though no marriage is sacred; no relationship sacrosanct. The truth is, none of them are. In two recent cases, I could not possibly have imagined the outcome beforehand. It has me thinking about relationships and their apparent fragility. Why do some last and others languish?...
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