Marriage has a lot of discussion going on right now, gay civil union is a big one. Apart from that, divorces are becoming more and more commonplace. Jesus Christ said that "To the married I give charge, not I but the Lord, that the wife should not separate from her husband and that the husband should not divorce his wife" (1 Cor. 7:10-11). Meaning that Jesus is not the one who said that sacramental marriage is permanent, it is the Father. The only way a true sacramental marriage can be broken is through death. Only then can a spouse remarry.
Another route of splitting from a sacramental are annulments. An annulment is an understanding that a sacramental marriage never truly existed because the vows did not mean anything to the spouses. and that the spouses can move on and remarry. This is very technical. The couple must get approval of an annulment from a diocesan marriage tribunal. The tribunal has to find truth that the vows were not said with any sort of meaning from the spouse, and that the words were just words coming out of a mouth. The spouses can remarry because there was not a sacramental marriage in the first place.
True sacramental marriages receive God's grace to carry on through the rest of the couple's lives.
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