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Kasha, according to halacha it is actionable if a woman burns the husband’s dinner.
The main cause of divorce is marriage (ok that was a tongue in cheek statement). The truth is some people are emotionally pushed into quickly getting engaged to the wrong people (he’s a top boy, she’s a baalas chessed, it’s a perfect shidduch), who might otherwise be nice people but are still wrong for each other. They get married for the wrong, though possibly well-intentioned reasons, and barely know each other. They might eb too young, too immature, too self-centered to be ready to give themselves over to living with someone from a different family, who is NOT mommy and daddy, and used to doing things differently from the way in which they were brought up. the adjustment may be TOO hard for such a person, and counseling cannot help, ebcause fundamentally they are wrong for each other. Should they stay in such a marriage and make each other miserable. Should a girl or boy who are very warm and demonstrative and marry someone who is not so, stay in a marriage where they feel unloved? Marriage takes a lot of work, and some people are not cut out to be together. The tragedy is if there are children involved at this point.