7.6 stars.
Marriage is hard and that's what I learn from this story. What a sad tale of a couple who've been married for over 20 years and have two kids going to college and now the marriage has failed. But the daughter has just gotten engaged, so they can't announce their looming divorce anytime soon. There are a lot of tears shed feeling sad for two people who just don't know how to get into the marriage zone like they used to. This happens to almost every marriage that I'm aware of. Let's not forget the percentage of couples that get divorced, then you have all the single people who never get married, and then the ones who almost get divorced, but they stay together for appearances only. How many HAPPY people have I just described? None. The only happy ones are married for life and they've discovered the secret. One such gem of knowledge is to ask the question: what is marriage? The answer: It's a job. You have to treat it like your job. You have to show up on time, do the work right, get the work done, get along with your co-workers, improve and excel and promote until you are the boss. If we remember to treat a marriage like our life depends on it, something that creates a livelihood, supports family and children, puts food on the table, and its first and foremost ahead of everything else - including the "day job", maybe, just maybe, it will succeed. I bet almost every person reading this has experienced divorce, separation, or never got married. If you are still married, good for you, but don't continue taking your spouse for granted. If you aren't certain whether you are taking them for granted, then YOU ARE! If you aren't bleeding, sweating, and crying every day to save your marriage, to love your spouse with all the energy you have, wearing yourself down to the bone, then you aren't doing it right. Don't let your current successful marriage fail because you think you've got it right. If you're not working tirelessly to maintain love for your spouse and to do and be all you can for them, then you will fail (luck runs out eventually). Take from someone, one of the many billions of humans in earth's history, who has experienced a failed marriage.
