Who said all marriages are? Who's strawmanning and caricaturing now?
Who was straw manning who? Why did you bring up the issue of spousal rape in the first place? Did you assume I must be someone who advocates it?
And if a wife doesn't want to have sex with her husband but he pressures her and tells her she's obligated to?
That's a what if question. Traditionally in Catholic faith at least such a woman would have access to a priest and if they were more religious they'd get pre marriage education too.
You may as well say what happens if someone abuses position X. Sure such can happen. But this can happen with anything. These days gay activists tell us that gay people have a right to have gay sex. It follows that sex is a human right. A woman who refuse sex to her husband or boyfriend could be said to be depriving him of his human rights too. The guy could cite that even gay people fight for a right to have anal sex respected and their right to it is entrenched, why can't he get sex then himself? She is a bigot. Anyone can twist things. Duh.
What if a male teacher tells his learner that sexual experimentation is OK and that he can experiment with him? What then. Will you not teach sex ed in school?
Go read up about it. Do I look like an expert at it. If you were charitable you'd have see there is a panel or tribunal and rules and precedents which are followed.
And if they can't reconcile and 'working on it' doesn't work?
Then annulment is possible.
Not talking about a few weeks. Could be many years.
So if you sign a 30 year home loan and then default after 20 the home should just be given to you?
As I said, it's up to the people in the marriage. They can divorce, or not. Up to them.
But if the one party wants to divorce and the other wants to keep the marriage do you not then think it's unfair to keep the one party who gets no sex in the marriage?
You're being slippery and not applying own criteria to yourself.
Sure, it's fair to ask for a divorce, if person B determines that's the best course of action. And remaining faithful isn't the equivalent of an automatic obligation for sex on person A because person B wants sex.
It's an obligation in terms of marriage. The marriage is however not necessary, they can end the marriage, the woman or the man can ask for annulment. It's not a "you'll have sex with me if you want to breathe", it's a "you'll have sex with me if you want us to remain married" and of course it all later depends on a panel to determine if this is fair.
There can be many reasons people in a marriage feel it doesn't need to continue. Up to them.
There can. But if one party asks for sex and is continually denied or sex is used as some sort of blackmail device then that does not follow that the marriage is based on mutual love and commitment. Only one party is committed to expression of love through physical means. This does not mean an annulment must follow, but it is grounds to request one and then find another person to marry.
