The Modern Problem of Divorce Caused by the Wound of Original Sin and the Prior Denial of the True Spouse.

Modernity is marked by the proliferation of divorce, caused by unhappiness between the spouses. The two spouses that once loved each other, separated after love is lost. The loss of love between the spouses is caused in part through the wound of original sin, which causes men and women to seek fulfilment in a spouse as the object of happiness. But by seeking for the spouse that makes one happy, the man or woman has assumed a need for a spouse that is not proved for within the single human person. For example, the man seeks for a woman, for the man sees something lacking in himself and something fulfilling in the woman. By the man seeing something lacking in himself is assuming that lack can best be provided for through the woman. And yet the woman is only a human spouse of finite good, and even if a perfect woman, she cannot ever fill the void existing within the man.

The secular man, living in the modern age assumes there is no other spouse he can engage other than a human spouse, as the men then enters into marriage without any expectation for engagement from any other source of fulfilment than the female spouse. And when the female spouse fails to deliver the legitimate needs of the man (and vice versa), the man begins to move away from the female and the female away from the male spouse. Such a motion of spouses away from each other is in part caused by the assumption that there is no other spouse in the secular based marriage.

And yet divine revelation has provided a great truth that God is the truth spouse of all men and woman and is always present within every marriage. If the assumption that there is only one human spouse for the modern man is a false assumption, corrected by the truth of the existence of the divine spouse, modern marriages have a chance to survive and produce lasting fulfilment for both spouses. For the divine spouse will always act to heal and provide peace between the spouses whilst causing a release of pressure on the spouses to provide something that cannot be provided - fulfilment as through the infinite goodness of God.

In short, the assumption that God is irrelevant to modern secular marriages is an assumption based upon the wound of ignorance caused by original sin. Original sin is then a major contributor to the break up of many modern marriages, along with the consequent actual sins of the spouses against each other.