Actress Gwyneth Paltrow and musician Chris Martin recently announced they are “consciously uncoupling.”
Apart from the euphemism for divorce, my wife had an interesting insight. The word couple, though used by many of us Christians, is not a great word for depicting marriage. Sure, we are still two persons coming together, but Christians hold to the union of one flesh. The word couple focuses too much to two distinct persons.
“Hitched” has the same connotation. If it doesn’t work pull the pin. If you have ever “cut” up a chicken, deboned and ripped the skin off….that is a better discription. It is “tearing” apart. Awful, bitter, broken and messy.
That is a sobering, but true assessment.