UNHAPPY MARRIAGES.
Sir, —I have read with interest Major Annie Gordon's remarks in Thursday's llehal/P regarding the above matter, and I cannot help wondering just bow many couples really get married for love. If honest, heartfelt love has drawn two people together, surely they will be ahle to adjust any differences that arise between them without much (rouble. " Whom God hath joined, let no man put asunder," says (lie Christian Church, but does God really join people who marrv for money, or social position, or some other m-itrrial reason, even though they are married in a church fifty times over? One of the root causes of unhappy marriage is woman's unsatisfactory economic position. If woman's economic position was such tl.at she could be satisfied to work and wait until the right man came, if she married for love and not for a home, as she too frequently does at present, we would hear far less about unhappy marriages, and the race would go ahead spiritually, mentally and physically, bv leaps and bounds, for is not love the fulfilment of the Law ? Plain Jane.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20228, 12 April 1929, Page 14
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