if they're sufficiently conservative, moral and religious it was probably unnecessary to tag them with any extra barriers to divorce anyway. and the other poster is saying that because it's a half-measure that's deliberately calibrated to not change too much about the institution, it also ends up slowing the process even when the other party has brazenly broken the contract, like a wife cheating on her husband with some other guy. it might prevent some divorces but it's still not marriage as a real contract with real penalties for breaking the terms of the contract.
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