“Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman, commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.” Luke 16:18 [Spirituality & Religion]

My aunt was beaten across all four walls of her own home until the death of her husband. So much so that her facial features coarsened from getting punched in the face, much like a boxer.

It was this very verse, this very language, that was used by her own mother to tell her to stay in her abusive marriage. She made a vow in front of a God and had to make good of it. Being disrespected, humiliated, beaten, undermined, made scared in her own home— too bad. That wasn’t grounds for divorce in the church she was married in.

The only things that were grounds for divorce in the church were if her husband stepped out on her, cheated, or if he lost his faith. Which he evidently didn’t. For some inexplicable reason, beating your wife to a pulp isn’t a sign of one’s spirituality gone bad. Amazing really.

Yea. So— no.