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Name Samantha Jane D. Jaurigue Date 02/10/2022

Grade  & Sec 11 – St. Patrick of Ireland Strand STEM

Video Analysis: “A Divorce Story”

Instruction: Visit the link posted on LMS. Watch the video of a divorced couple who shares
each side of their love story. After watching the video, make an analysis about the couple and
their broken relationship. Is divorce a solution or not?

Talitha and Jimmy spent a wonderful time together as a married couple. Even if the
rocky parts of their marriage that had led them into their present situation was amplified more,
sometimes it’s the art of looking back and realizing there are so much more moments to be
treasured of. That despite all this endless bad they had both focused on, there was and is, some
good to it too. Unfortunately, the couple only had realized it now, when their love has drifted
farther apart, blew too far to reach. And this is where my thoughts will take me—love cannot
foster when its not taken care of. Love only blooms when we desire it, but it can never grow
infinitely when we don’t devote ourselves to it. That, for me, is where they lacked. It’s a mere
observation, but I do think they fell in the idea of marriage but had no clue how to dance around
it. Or to maneuver around it. They went head straight without thinking far ahead. I think at that
point in their life, when everything started to feel unsteady, the vows they had uttered, and had
sworn before getting married vanished into thin air. You lose something forever when you never
attempted to search for it. Like marriage, like their oath, like the vows, and like love.

For a marriage to work, it isn’t based on the action of love or to love alone. Rather,
marriage is about the act of commitment towards love. The desirability of choosing and
continuously choosing love, and love to work. Despite how rough the roads would come out to
be, or how sometimes their journey as partners could be so soulless and boring, love is to take
and to take. As the words of Talitha, she yearned for a partner. And by the regrets of Jimmy, he
wished he were kinder. These things can be fixed only if they chose to. Now, here comes the
question. Do I think a divorce is necessary? No. I don’t think the final ultimatum of their
relationship must land on the process of divorce. They handled things, and based on their
interactions in the video, are in good terms. If they want to, they can file for an annulment. But
never a divorce. Divorce isn’t the correct way to end things, especially in Jimmy and Talitha’s
case. the both of them still communicate and consider each other as a close friend, and without
divorce means there’s always an open opportunity to work things out. A divorce ends a marriage
and ends all pending opportunities that may arise along the way. From a viewer’s point of view, I
believe they can definitely work things out, that is, if they choose to! Although, I don’t want
them to deal with the pressure or to force things out. If it works, it works. if it doesn’t, it doesn’t.
The most important thing is if they choose to try. Because after trying things out, even in the face
of possible failure, they would regret less because they tried.