Final 12 months, I talked with director Tyler Perry about his movie I Can Do Bad All by Myself. During the interview, which involved a handful of different Christian outlets, Perry was asked why all his films have nearly irredeemable bad guys.

“Part of it might be my own personal factor, in coping with the years and years and years of my father being this person as dark and evil as he was to me,” he said. ” Possibly I’m waiting for him to change so I can see some other individuals be redeemed. I do not know.”

I can not say whether or not Perry’s father has changed. However it seems that, perhaps, Perry has.

In Why Did I Get Married Too? we should not have a prototypical Perry villain. As an alternative, we see something that, to me, strikes nearer to reality: flawed people making mistakes. Sometimes horrible, life-altering mistakes.

I do know many people who’ve gotten divorced, as maybe you do, people who stated their relationships weren’t worth the trouble anymore. Generally these splits were amicable. Sometimes they were bitter. A couple of involved an actual villain-somebody who was violent, abusive, misleading, mean. But much more typically the relationships simply eroded over time. Somewhere along the line, one thing went wrong. Couples stopped speaking, stopped listening, or both.

Perry’s movies, like marriage itself, are at all times filled with the “higher” and “worse.” Married Too is stuffed with crass language, sexual conditions and some scenes that made me want to look away.

But within the midst of it all, he additionally tells us that marriages are value fighting for, regardless of how far gone things seem. And so we must always combat to see our unions through their own periods of better and worse, of illness and health, of highs and lows. In brief, we must always embrace every treasured minute.

Because with cautious consideration and regular maintenance, Why Did I Get Married Too? insists, a good marriage can run for a very long time.