Six Reasons Why You Should Stay Married

1. Most marriages are worth saving despite the general view that one in every two or three are duds. What's the point in swapping one set of difficult circumstances for another set when it deprives children of living with two parents they love? And look at the divorcees we know - how many are much, much happier?

2. Should you have to end your marriage, do so knowing you have tried your hardest and that coping on your own is infinitely preferable to coping with a useless wife or husband. This will be liberating and uplifting and we will all be there to cheer you on.

3. Therefore, if you find yourself feeling unhappy, stressed, exhausted, tempted by other men or women, taken for granted and sick of your spouse then you must deal with it how you like. Some like to scream, then get a migraine, which breaks the tension because your spouse then says how many headaches have you had this week and he or she are certain you don't have a brain tumor. Why, something bugs you one day and not another is a mystery. Just know it happens.

4. You certainly will wake up one morning and notice that the person you agreed to stay with till death do you part, no longer exists. It's no reason for stomping off. What kind of person would you be if you didn't change? Even dead people change. What did you think? That you wouldn't? This change is a reason for having a life beyond your marriage.

5. The biggest mistake you can make is to imagine one person can and must satisfy your every physical, emotional, financial, intellectual, spiritual, professional and culinary need. How could they? They need only be a partner in an arrangement which will probably involve the raising of children in reasonably happy and comfortable circumstances and all you need from them is affection, respect and help, which is more than you will get if you are a single parent and lonely.

6. The severity of leaving is really neither here nor there if you don't have children. You can please yourself about leaving since you only have each other to hurt. But even then, all the above still applies. I would advise patience, especially when you have already put so much effort into being accommodating. It's amazing what changes if you hang on. Hair grows, laughs change, tempers improve, bridgework can eradicate slurping.

Therefore, it just might be easier to stay married and forget all the nonsense.