What Binds Marriage Forever: Reflections on the Indissolubility of Marriage is a collection of texts written from 1956 to 1971 by Ida Friederike Görres, herself a married lay woman. Her main focus is the indissolubility of marriage. In the Preface, Görres observes the emergence of a marriage crisis in the West. 'Each passing day,' she writes, 'the conversation about marriage grows in gravity and urgency.' She wrote this in 1956; she could have written this and the other parts of this book in 2023. The centerpiece of the book is Chapter 1, written in 1971. She argues against Catholics who are trying to reframe marriage a mere love-bond that ceases when love ceases. She mounts a defense of the Catholic teaching on marriage against her counterparts’ calls to allow divorce and remarriage. She exposes the central role modern individualism in their arguments. Shedemonstrates how their arguments are ahistorical, a recipe for relational instability, and harmful to those who suffer when their