User blog comment:VaughanTES/A Major Fault With Skyrim./@comment-1992639-20121120232438

What I do think is that certain spouses should become unavailable when you have quested too far for a faction which clashes with the potential spouse their morals. Perhaps to the point where a spouse voices her disdain and eventually divorces, unless the Dragonborn helps a faction that is more in line with the current spouse. Things like gifts could 'stall' such a divorce giving the Dragonborn time to make amends, for example post-darkbrotherhood, earning Borgakh's or Aela's respect back by helping the helpless, completing a questline that is the opposite of murder and deceit or learning a peaceful skill such as restoration.