And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery. For many ages marriage was thought a work of the flesh by the church fathers. Afterwards, it was made a sacrament. Those words of Christ that his yoke is easy and his burden light, were not spoken in vain.
Marriage serves as the prevention of loneliness .
In an incompatible marriage loneliness is made worse than it is in a single life. A marriage that is not companionate, is no marriage. Wisdom and charity . . . Canon law implicitly values marriage only as a carnal institution. Modesty may lead to a greater chance of mistaken choice of a marriage mate than would loose living.