James Sexton maintains that the permanence of marriage is an illusion, as every marriage eventually ends in either death or divorce.

“Every marriage ends. It ends in death or in divorce. It's one of the only things in the world that you go, I hope this ends in death. If you said to someone at their wedding, man, I really hope your marriage ends in death, they would be like, what is wrong with that guy.”

Dr. Phil explains that a husband has separate emotional accounts for his romantic partner and his family, meaning one does not necessarily come at the expense of the other.

“He has a romantic account from which he makes withdrawals to deposit to her with his love, time, attention, energy, effort. And then he has familial love that he has for you and and his and his dad. Those are two separate accounts.”

Facing extreme life challenges has strengthened his marriage to his wife.

“And I think all this really put it in perspective for me and my wife, you know, just everything that we've been through it's just it's made us so much stronger.”