This recognition is imperative today if we wish to avoid utter confusion in our generation, faced as it is with tremendous sexual and marital conflicts. Without a clear understanding of the underlying social and moral factors, no individual problem between husband and wife or between lovers can be approached sensibly or solved at all. Men and women alike become unwilling to accept each other as they are. And the more discouraged they are, the less they can endure; and the more they demand and expect, the less they will get. Consequently the rate of divorce will probably increase significantly. The blame will be attributed to a great variety of reasons. Husbands and wives will blame each other; they will complain of their incompatibility or of unfavorable economic conditions.
It is as wrong to put the blame for the broken marriages on a lack of familiarity as on the boredom of prolonged familiarity; war marriages may as frequently break up as marriages of long standing. Little do both parties involved realize that their difficulties lie neither in their respective qualities nor in living conditions, but in their inability to find a new equilibrium between themselves as the old foundation of their relationship crumbles. Every financial or social problem challenging them brings their inner conflict into the open. They differ about the function which husband or wife should assume; they expect and demand from each other what each is unwilling and incapable of performing. The increased rate of divorce, in turn, makes men and women more sensitive and increases their demands for safeguards.