The only Biblical recourse for a horrible marriage, or any marriage for that matter, is death. If your husband is an abusive, mean, hateful, fill-in-the-blank jerk in spite of you doing your best as a wife, God can kill him whenever He wants to. If he is still alive, God must want you to still be married to him. A wife could pray and fast for her husband/marriage, and for the kids to turn out right in spite of marital problems. If nothing else, it will be a great lesson for the kids, who hopefully will grow up and make wiser and more careful choices regarding their future spouse, rather than learning that marriage can be dissolved at a whim.
And why shouldn’t it be dissolved at a whim? It may well have been entered into at a whim. Or literally under the influence:
The chemical responsible for the initial high of love is called phenylethylalanine, which promotes passionate love. Within six months to a few years, the phenylethylalanine fades.
It's nice this person is "hopeful" that kids from an abusive home will grow up wise and careful, no matter that they've been raised by unwise and careless people. And yes, wives of abusive husbands, praying and fasting is what can make your kids turn out right in spite of that. At least, it's your only choice, so we better hope it can. (We're a hopeful bunch.)
And, P.S., you might take the hint that if God wants you to still be married to this abusive sociopath, God doesn't really like you very much.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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