Tears ran down my face as I stood frustrated in our little apartment kitchen not sure what to say. I had already said too much. The dark thought flitted into my mind. Why did I even get married to him if it was going to be like this? I don’t even remember what that argument was about those long years ago when we were so young, money was so tight, and our future was not sure—we were still trying to get my husband through grad school and the job market in his field was tenuous. Yet, we had freely entered into the Sacrament of Matrimony with the proper intentions, knowing that it was for life with the intention of being open to having children—for richer, for poorer, for better, for worse, in sickness, and in health. For poorer and for worse was not exactly easy—Why were we doing this difficult thing? Why did we strive to work it out? The apostles in today’s Gospel find the teaching of Jesus on lifelong marriage difficult. They exclaim after His teaching on divorce, “If that is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.” (Matthew 19:10) And Jesus …