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Marriage is a contract.
If you know, in your soul, in your own conscience, in what Vatican II and the Church has always called the “Internal Forum” -— that the “contract” was not valid?
The “External Forum” of a formal Church Annulment is not required, in order to remarry.
It is not to be taken lightly but it EXISTS, and you do not do the Church any favors by denying the existence of this option.

The following is from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - “LETTER TO THE BISHOPS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH CONCERNING THE RECEPTION OF HOLY COMMUNION BY THE DIVORCED AND REMARRIED MEMBERS OF THE FAITHFUL,” Section 7:

The mistaken conviction of a divorced and remarried person that he may receive Holy Communion normally presupposes that personal conscience is considered in the final analysis to be able, on the basis of one’s own convictions, to come to a decision about the existence or absence of a previous marriage and the value of the new union. However, such a position is inadmissable. Marriage, in fact, because it is both the image of the spousal relationship between Christ and his Church as well as the fundamental core and an important factor in the life of civil society, is essentially a public reality.

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_14091994_rec-holy-comm-by-divorced_en.html

It is not to be taken lightly but it EXISTS, and you do not do the Church any favors by denying the existence of this option.
I did not know this existed. Who decides if someone is abusive, mentally ill, an alcoholic [with no hope for rehabilitation], allowing the person to divorce, then receive the Sacraments, without an annulment?