This isn't personal at you at all, but I've always wondered why we feel the need to give people condolences when they break up or wish that they had stayed together. If they're not happy they should move on with their lives and we should be supportive and congratulatory about it.
I'll answer.
Because many still see marriage as the bedrock of society and despite what's going on in one's personal marriage (which we don't know for sure), when another couple breaks up, slowly but surely, it represents the demise of the institution of marriage and, progressively, the demise of society.
Almost all societies have a concept of marriage. The human race isn't stupid. Somehow, somewhere in our brains we thought this arrangement - much like government - brings about a certain stability to society.
And many mourn what has happened to the institution and will happen to society if the institution of marriage continues to crumble. Marriage has an impact on economy, poverty, morality, education, government, etc., in ways some understand but many don't.
I personally think this country will not survive the next 100 years (I'll be gone by then). And one of the reasons why is because of the disintegration of the institution of marriage, which doesn't occur all at once but as couple, one by one, separate like the continual dripping of water on a rock that after 100 years of softening, cracks releasing a boulder that smashes to the ground.
And great shall be its fall.
