Marriage is a covenant. Thing is, there are some exceedingly wicked people, who won't let their wife, or husband, keep that covenant.

If i am not mistaken, adultery breaks that bond.  This is not a post advocating ez-divorce, it just points out the REALITY that dangerous people exist: yep, there are some soul-crushers out there, who come on real nice like, and years later, leave you completely drained - if not seriously contemplating suicide.   Just read a post from someone, who seems to get off on taking a large print King James Bible, and whacking the stuffing out of wives, especially.  WHAM, BAM, THONK...

Oh yeah, that will lead a lost soul to Christ...shure :/   

Bible thumper claims, that an abused spouse can leave - the 500 square foot dented tin can, with a leaky roof, and a slow drain in the crampy kitchen sink - but, oh, she shouldn't divorce her nabal-on-devil-dust husband.  She's supposed to remain married, while he gambles/drinks/charges her deeper and deeper into debt - at 1.75% per month on the ever growing unpaid balance.   Yeah, if wifey can't get a half sustainable job, she's supposed to live off church charity.  Shure, while she's sitting, well dressed, blogging away in a paid for, just ever so, 4,500 square foot, six bedroom farmhouse - sitting on some beautifully landscaped ten acres.

Uhm, excuse me, but there's for-real missionaries out there, in some very toxic places, who need funds.  Missionaries see things like starvation and sickness everyday, and do what they can to help.  And mrs.just-ever-so expects tess-from-the-trailer-court to remain bound to a ... demon incarnate.  IS WHAT IT bleeping IS!  Just saying...

While i was never beaten by some drunken piece of drek, or outright cheated on, or even poor, i still remember  being lost.  And so NOT willing to heed the Gospel of Jesus Christ, because Bible things always reminded me of self-righteous broads, just lounging in their spacious kitchens - as a pie (from a recipe posted in some swanky mag) bakes in a state of the art oven - habitually one-upping their poor neighbors.  Nope, for decades, wanted about nothing to do with church, hymns, Scripture.

Still remember how that feels.