Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1205

1205. Now one will perhaps claim that the above-mentioned youthful period in particular really belongs to the perfect time for mating, and that amorous love must of course be particularly strong in the initial period of sexual maturity. This is, indeed, perfectly correct. But life does not intend the "perfect marriage" to last or be strong for only this brief youthful period. From a marital point of view it cannot be perfect that marriage has merely a brief golden age, the so-called "honeymoon", and thereafter makes the couple unhappy because one or perhaps both of them has become more or less unsuited to married life. It cannot possibly be advantageous to marriage that one spouse or the other is already maritally "tired" at the onset of "maturity", indeed, is sometimes satiated to the point of nausea with married life. Although the couple are still at the prime of their sexual hunger, and despite their still fully preserved ability to have intercourse and to fertilise, the legitimate satisfaction of this hunger is sometimes completely unattainable. The nature of this unsatisfied hunger therefore gradually becomes such that it increasingly seeks illegitimate satisfaction, which thus means that the beings' sexual longing is drawn increasingly towards beings or sexual partners outside marriage. In modern society this longing has gradually gained such strength that neither ecclesiastical nor legal authorities nor their laws have been able to prevent it becoming increasingly widespread. Divorces are obtained by the thousand, the divorcees then entering into new marriages. And do things work out better for them in these new marriages? No, for many people the problem repeats itself, sometimes ending even more quickly in a new divorce, and so on continuously until halted by legislation that limits how many times divorce and re-marriage can take place.