and our women have toiled, being big with child; and they have borne children in the wilderness and suffered all things, save it were death; and it would have been better that they had died before they came out of Jerusalem than to have suffered these afflictions.
It baffles me that a husband who truly loves his wife could say that it would have been better for her to die than to live in the wilderness and "suffer" like he's the one being put out because of her trials