Only if you think you need to divorce to enter into another relationship. I have friends who live with new partners but are married to someone else altogether;

Only if you think you need to divorce to enter into another relationship. I have friends who live with new partners but are married to someone else altogether; they see the process of getting divorced as an unnecessary and expensive hassle. Really, how much of our social rituals are thus so encumbered to the primary benefit of bureaucrats and lawyers?