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like abortion, divorce is beautiful

like how every abortion is an exercise in bodily autonomy and emancipation from biological constraint, every divorce is an exercise in freedom of dissociation and the dissolution of a social bond that is no longer voluntary

the marriage contract is a tacit declaration that one or both partners will eventually wish to leave the relationship--to withdraw their consent--but must be forced to stay by legal impediment, moralizing stigma, or communitarian dictatorship eg the insidious concept of 'community consent'