Chapter XI.
WHY MARRIAGE SOMETIMES WRECKS.
ALL INTERESTED IN MARRIAGE.
The attention given marital troubles at the present time indicates beyond question that it is a subject of paramount interest and importance. It appeals to every one. "It strikes home," for, although all are not married, there are few who do not look forward to this condition—or backward at it. The various theories that are advanced as to the cause of marital unhappiness by philosophers throughout the world would fill thousands of volumes. But the writer has often wondered how many of these theories expressed the real opinions of the writers. He cannot believe that they fail to see the real cause of marital unhappiness, or that it is their desire to deceive, but to his mind it is plain that divorces, and by far the larger majority of the unhappy marriages, are made possible by
