1. Almost habitual sadness in the married couple and in the family.
2. Mutual sentiments of disillusionment, boredom and emptiness.
3. Dissatisfaction.
4. Indifference to each other’s problems.
5. Frequent or habitual coldness in relationships.
6. Lack of sweetness and small courtesies.
7. Lack of tenderness
8. Climate of insincerity and of mutual distrust.
9. More confidence in third persons than with own spouse.
10. Nagging
11. Lack of planning things together.
12. Lack of dialogue and intimate communication.
13. Most communication mechanical, routine and on the surface.
14. Feeling of being alone and not understood.
15. Frequent bad humor and tension.
16. Mutual Aggressiveness.
17. Frequent quarrels in the bedroom…. in front of the children…. in front of anybody.
18. Ridicule of each other.
19. Insults, rude words, sarcasms and ridicule.
20. Superficial life and continuous escapes (liquor, drugs, vices).
A. Never able to think deeply.
B. Evasion: A life of selfishness and sin.
21. Individual spiritual life (each soul in a “closet”).
22. Lack of enthusiasm – do not appreciate spouse.
23. Lack of or loss of the capacity of wonderment.
24. Personal apostolate causing conflict.
25. Lack of faith in love and in matrimony.
(Copy from Marriage Magazine)
| Symptoms of Spiritual Divorce (It’s important to have a marriage not just in name but in spirit). |
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