Monday, 13 June 2011

Divorce - "incompatibility of temper

GK Chesterton
"What's wrong with the world"

"The two must hold each other to do justice to each other. If Americans can be divorced for "incompatibility of temper" I cannot conceive why they are not all divorced. I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible."

(Part I, Chapter 7: The Free Family)