Testimony of Healing June 6, 1983 Issue

I have learned that the human institution of marriage...

PATRICIA W. HUBER with contributions from RAYMOND HUBER

I have learned that the human institution of marriage does not ensure that the partners will live "happily ever after," nor does divorce ensure escape from the inharmony supposedly produced by conflicting human personalities.

My husband and I attempted to make an unhappy marriage work for almost six years because we had two children. The more we struggled to humanly improve the relationship through psychological techniques and counseling, the more hopeless we felt. We finally decided that the only way to make our lives and the lives of our children happier was to separate and ultimately divorce, which we did.

After the divorce I began to realize that it was not with whom I humanly companioned that would make me happy. (To be sure, I was then spending some of the most unhappy days I had ever spent.) Rather, joy or happiness comes from an awareness of one's real, spiritual selfhood, man's relationship to God, divine Love, Life, the true, unvarying source of joy.

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