"Do you think that just the marriage contract can be broken with impunity or any ole contract?"
You can violate the terms of ANY contract with impunity, as long as the other party to it does not complain, and even then, the contract is not broken until the court says so.
If this were not true, there would be people who are now single because their spouse cheated, many who never knew it.
Imagine a widow who finds out she's been living in sin with
a "husband" who "broke their contract" 40 years ago - and now she can't get his Social Security.
Not quite. Killing your spouse violates the contract even though the spouse can never complain. And you will lose your spousal rights to control your spouses estate because you violated the marriage contract. But there are those who think violtaing contracts is a trivial matter, you one of those?
If this were not true, there would be people who are now single because their spouse cheated, many who never knew it.
Your statement was not true, period, cheating and forgiving spouses not withstanding.
Imagine a widow who finds out she's been living in sin with a "husband" who "broke their contract" 40 years ago - and now she can't get his Social Security.
Imagine a husband who attempts to murder his wife, he fails at the attempt to murder but succeeds in damaging his wife to the point she can not remember or relate the attack. He takes up with another woman and starts a family. He eyeballs the assets of the old wife and petitions the state to put her out of her misery to access those assets and get on with his new life.. The state complies. Imagine that.