It might strike some people as humorous or asinine that someone could divorce multiple times in a row. Perhaps they find the suffering of others amusing—though not every person is subjectively upset by their divorce and not every divorce is a negative thing—or perhaps they think that it is impossible for someone to have a legitimate reason, whatever their likely arbitrary criteria are, for divorce, whether for one or more than one. A certain kind of person would assume that the only reason for someone to become a repeat divorcee is because they are terrible at handling romantic/marital relationships or because they are an outright abusive, selfish, or otherwise immoral or problematic partner.
This does not follow, not even according to the real Biblical doctrine of divorce, where moral failings of ultimately any kind are justification for leaving a marriage (Exodus 21:10-11, Deuteronomy 21:10-14, 24:1-4, 1 Corinthians 7:15, etc.). Of course, even aside from Biblical standards, it could be the case that someone's partners were one after the other predatory or neglectful people. Even irrationalistic people, though their moment to moment existence is one of one inevitable metaphysical or epistemological error, can be victims of deceit, dehumanizing manipulation, or malicious physical or verbal treatment.
Especially if the divorcee is a rationalist, however, in this world of irrationalists or anti-rationalists, almost everyone else will invariably be worthy of being discarded maritally. It is just that a rationalist would not marry a non-rationalist except under misleading, bizarrely complicated pretenses or some circumstance that entails an incompleteness or lapse in their adherence to perfect rationalism. Also, there is nothing logically impossible about someone not being the reason for the failure of a marriage or of them having justification for divorce more than once consecutively, with no inherent limit.
Though it is logically possible for someone to be at fault each time or at least sometimes if they have multiple divorces, possibility does not mean this is true in a given case, and it is also logically possible for someone to be completely innocent across numerous marriages that end in divorce, even if they were the one who initiated it. Of course, the stupidity of non-rationalists, who would be the vast majority of married people because they are the vast majority of people, is reason enough to divorce almost anyone married at this moment, but then again, except for circumstances of misrepresentation and so on, a genuine, careful rationalist would not end up with one of them anyway.
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