I was recently speaking at a Shabbas [Sabbath] meal celebrating the wedding of my husband’s best friend, when out of the blue my eyes flooded with tears. Suddenly the pain of my parents’ divorce washed over me without warning and I had to pause to regain my composure. I didn’t even know that it was still an open wound.
I considered myself fortunate that my parents had such a “friendly, average divorce.” They had such a friendly divorce because they had what most people would call an “average, friendly” marriage. They didn’t fight, but they didn’t grow closer either. And I think their divorce still frightens me because they slowly, subtly drifted apart until they couldn’t see a way to rebuild what they had lost.
Rabbi Noah Weinberg taught that whenever a person hears about a couple divorcing he or she should take a good look at their own marriage and see how they can improve it. Be worried, Rav Noah would say, that it could happen to you because if you aren’t investing in your marriage, you are withdrawing from it.
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Bible reference(s): Genesis 2:24, Deuteronomy 24:5, Proverbs 5:18, Ecclesiastes 9:9, Song 1, Matthew 19:5, Mark 10:7, 1 Corinthians 7:33-34, Ephesians 5:25, Ephesians 5:28, Col 3:19, 1 Peter 3:7
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