Dear British Government.
Why is it that I cannot divorce simply because I do not wish to be married any more? (You have to have been separated for 2 years well 2 years is a bloody long time when your grandfather refuses to speak to or see your new prospective fiance until divorce has gone through..)
Why do I have to tell a complete stranger extremely personal and painful facts that are now long in the past?
It is not your business, neither is it your business as a ruling body to tell me whether or not YOU feel I am allowed to get a divorce.
I did not have to pay a solicitor in order to get married, nor seek special permission - you do not have to detail a complex history of past abuses etc, have you been faithful to previous partners etc before marrying so why should I have to do so for divorce?
Likewise, I did not have to go via deedpoll to change my name into my ex- husband's name, so why should I have to go via deed poll and PAY that's it PAY ladies to change my name back into the bloody name I was born with? Disgusting. I am absolutely disgusted and it takes a lot to disgust me - I like ratemypoo.com for god's sake!
The fact that you can get it for free on income support is simply not good enough - many people would find the kind of paperwork needed to apply for income support completely mind boggling, confusing, lengthy, depressing and off putting. But that's another story.
A masculine system developed for controlling and regulating the people. This government is a controlling, nanny government that refuses to allow the people to make their own decisions and trust their own inner judgment.
Ok, I know the governmenet etc is getting better and better, but here is an example of an age old institution that noone has challenged and they bloody well should!!!
Marriage should not serve as the Government's way of controlling society, keeping the economy stable. It should be for love, and when the love fades, it should be allowed to go its own natural course, pure and bloody simple.
And by the way, is it really fair and just to humans that sex with another person, even if you have separated from your partner, is classed as adultery? Does the law, and thus the government, the UN and society really as a whole really expect that I abstain from sex for a whole bloody two years and more until a divorce has come through? Ridiculous, cruel, controlling, and not right at all, whatsoever. And I BET the people who make these bloody rules don't do the same themselves.
