OH NO! Somebody called me a sexist? I'm crushed.

"...Your answer was no all along, the rest didn't qualify that..."

My answer is my answer, as written. You can interpret it as you wish. If it is a "no," it is a qualified "no." The qualifications are there. They are invisible to those who do not wish to see them.

"Leaving bad marriages makes sense."

"...people make mistakes and unspoken realities that weren't foreseen often come up."

How a person responds to those "mistakes and unspoken realities" is a measure of the strength of his or her character. If I had to find a person upon whom I could rely in difficult and trying circumstances, when considering a divorced person, I would have to consider the circumstances of his or her divorce when evaluating his or her character.

Someone who reneged on a solemn commitment rather than trying to resolve the difficulties he or she encountered might be regarded as having a character flaw that is serious enough to consider excluding that individual.

For example, if someone was cheating, could I fully trust that person?

On the other hand, I would be less concerned about a person who didn't do enough household chores.

That is my judgment. It is your prerogative to use your own best judgment.

"a society of forced unhappy marriages is a damaged society."

That suggests a low divorce rate and happy marriages would create the most stable society. It would help if we members of the older generation could find an effective way to counsel members of the young generation - to teach them how to find suitable mates. It would help even more if we could convince them to listen to us.

I would advise a young man to find a woman who appreciates him as he is and who he appreciates as she is. I would give similar advice to a young woman. Unfortunately, most of them would not heed that advice. They might learn to listen if social consequences applied to people who divorced. It might take a couple generations, but eventually, people would learn to be careful who they choose to marry.

Robert K. wrote:

"He's arguing with me without disagreeing with what I wrote."

"Without disagreeing" means agreeing. Agreeing with something means saying yes to it. Robert considers my comment a yes. You understood it as a no. I meant it as neither a yes nor a no. It seems to mean whatever anyone wants it to mean.