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Marriage Story: What God Has Joined (Matthew 19:6)

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Charlie and Nicole loved each other once—deeply, genuinely. The film opens with each reading what they love about the other. Then comes divorce: lawyers weaponizing intimacy, children caught between, two people who promised forever destroying each other to survive. Jesus said: What God has joined together, let no one separate. Marriage Story does not argue for or against divorce; it shows what it costs. The love was real. The ending is real. Both can be true. The film is a lament for what was lost, a recognition that even when divorce is necessary, something sacred has died.

Topics & Themes

marriage divorce love loss family grief

Scripture References

Matthew 19:6 Malachi 2:16 Mark 10:9

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