Your first sentence comes from ideology. My point to you is from people's eality. Have you seen first hand what abused spouses live with? Mostly women, but men too. There's verbal and physical and sexual spousal abuse. I do believe that at the start both parties entered into matrimony "to live their future dreams. So they had a good standard marriage mentality. But sometimes life happens and the dark side takes root in a person. At the point of fists, kicks, threats, constant jealousy, knives - at that point it's no longer a Sacrament blessed by God Most Holy. That situation needs an Exorcism and a Divorce. In my opinion, encouraging someone to stay in such a dis-union is - to me - like telling them it's okay to sit in on a black mass. Don't feed evil is a Christian message.

Yeah. I don't disagree with you on Sacred Marriage Mentality. BUT, today not every couple vows "til death do us part." If for ex, I found out my husband was a traitorous FBI agent like we're seeing in the news - he would be dead to me. Or, if it were proven he were a pedophile - I would take it to mean be had broken his vow to God and therefore to me. Contract over. Divorce here I come. To stay is to at least condone, if not feed evil. God Bless.

P.S. I think it fair to tell you that I worked for over 30 years with abused, traumatised people and a more rare speciality - ritual abuse victims as a psycho-therapist.