Divorce is being cited as a solution to failed marriages and the provider of a "second chance" to get it right.

Where the cause is one of the following often-cited causes of failed marriages - burdensome financial commitments, infidelity, physical or psychological abuse, lack of maturity, drug (including alcohol) addiction, mental instability, inability to resolve conflict, inability to communicate, lack of commitment to the marriage, divergent expectations, inadequate preparation and so on - what guarantee will there be that a divorced person will get it right the second (or third, or fourth!) time round? It has been said before...it takes two wholes, not two halves, to make a marriage. I think it would go against society's best interests to look on divorce as an option before the country invests meaningfully in better pre-marriage preparation and improved support for failing marriages.