IMHO, the operative principle should be that the abuser desecrated and abandoned their marriage through the act(s) of abuse.
The devil, however, is in the details, specifically the definitions of those terms. For example, active physical aggression is directly verifiable, while the very nature of passive mental and emotional aggression is not.
Perhaps the solution is to make divorces harder to get but make annulments easier for valid cause to allow people in profoundly bad marriages to rebuild their lives after divorce.
IMHO, the operative principle should be that the abuser desecrated and abandoned their marriage through the act(s) of abuse.
The devil, however, is in the details, specifically the definitions of those terms. For example, active physical aggression is directly verifiable, while the very nature of passive mental and emotional aggression is not.
Truth.
The operative theory here is that divorce should be considered in the grave moral context that it should be.
This perspective has almost been totally lost in the “modern” world to the extent that marriage has become a disposable commodity that only considers the monetary and material price of a divorce and not the spiritual cost.