Legal and customary coercion sustains marriages that morally should end.

Evidence

These advantages are similar to the prerogative of marriage over free love. Nobody can deny that the coercion of law and custom holds innumerable marriages together which, from the moral standpoint, ought to break apart. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 7346

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