It is often the case that persons before marriage have little opportunity to become acquainted with each other's habits and disposition: and, so far as everyday life is concerned, they are virtually strangers when they unite their interests at the altar. Many find, too late, that they are not adapted to each other, and lifelong wretchedness is the result of their union. Often the wife and children suffer from the indolence and inefficiency or the vicious habits of the husband and father.

The world is full of misery and sin today in consequence of ill-assorted marriages. In many cases it takes only a few months for husband and wife to realize their dispositions can never blend; and the result is that discord prevails in the home, where only the love and harmony of heaven should exist.

AH p.83