Simplistic view of marital breakdown

1 WAS amazed by the letter (July 23) from Fr Aidan McGing outlining his recipe for a happy marriage.

I wondered how he could possibly provide any personal insight into what is required for a successful marriage.

In particular, I found his paragraph discussing his ‘insights’ into the sexual viewpoints of both partners extremely immature. I can only assume this is because he cannot realise his own sexual maturity in view of the constraints of his vocation. But what I found even more disturbing was his naive belief that the pill, more than a changing society and the developing roles of men and women within it, is the major cause of marriage decay. Indeed his analysis of the problems faced by separating couples today are as worryingly simplistic as his suggestedremedies. I doubt if Fr McGing has had personally to address any of the realissues that face a couple, married or otherwise, in anything more than a purely theoretical sense.