I own several things that don’t work. I’ve got an old leaf blower that doesn’t work - I think the carburetor needs a good cleaning. I have a Mercury outboard with a stuck lower unit – doesn’t work. These items don’t function as they were intended to, they are incapable of doing what they were created to do. They don’t work.

That’s not that big of a problem when it comes to mechanical things. You can find someone to fix them or just replace them. But what if it’s a relationship that doesn’t work? Sometimes relationships get so broken that they are incapable of functioning as God meant them to function.  A friendship falls apart by neglect or a marriage is shattered by a violation of trust and fidelity. There is so much more damage and loss when a relationship doesn’t work.