He feels that you should by all means make every effort to
hold your marriage together, especially for the sake of your children, who,
like all children of divorced parents, cannot but suffer from conflicting
loyalties, for they are deprived of the blessing of a father and mother in one
home, to look after their interests and love them jointly.
Now that you realize that your husband is ill, you should be
able to reconcile yourself to the difficulties you have faced with him
emotionally, and not take an unforgiving attitude, however much you may suffer.
We know that Bahá'u'lláh has very strongly frowned upon
divorce; and it is really incumbent upon the Bahá'ís to make almost a
superhuman effort not to allow a Bahá'í marriage to be dissolved.
(From a
letter dated 6 March 1953 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual
believer; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. I, Preserving Baha’i Marriages)
