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To: kosciusko51; Mrs. Don-o

Good catch.

BTW, I used to have that attitude about divorced people, until my wife of 20 years decided she didn’t want to be married any more, completely out of the blue (casualty of no-fault divorce). It altered my perspective. That is, now that the issue actually MATTERED to me, I decided to study it a bit more thoroughly. That was 21 years ago.

This guy really nails the whole thing nicely from a biblical perspective regarding both old and new testaments:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4QI3JDcxOs


66 posted on 04/24/2018 11:36:14 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: robroys woman
Not trying to be uncooperative about it, but my hearing isn't good enough to follow a video for 16+ minutes. (I'm good for listening to music, but talking, not so much). Could you tell me in about a paragraph what he said?

There were two couples I knew pretty well where the husband got blindsided, dumped by a wife who basically wanted to kick up her heels with somebody else. The women in these cases truly victimized their husbands (AND kids), and I would never hold the divorce against the husbands.

And it's always possible that by some objective criterion, her marriage vows were an empty lie, defective from the git-go, IF she always knew she was lying about "til death do us part"; she was always figuring she would split if Splitsville was attractive enough.

In that case, there were really no binding vows because a binding vow cannot be predicated upon a lie. In other words, there was no "what God has joined together" because God doesn't join together on the basis of a lie. In that case, you'd be free to seek marriage elsewhere, and may God bless you. Your present wife would be, in the eyes of God, your one and only honest wedded wife.

Doees that make sense?

81 posted on 04/24/2018 12:27:31 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John: that's the team I'm betting on.)
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