<p>“But divorce is different. Its undoing something. Annullment is saying that it never really happenned in the first place.”</p>
<p>Well it might not have really happened. If the parties did not enter into the scrament with full understanding or full intent or there was coersion (I only did it to satisfy the on-laws) then the requisites weren’t there for a valid marriage in the eyes of God even if they are there in the eyes of the state. The same can happen with a civil contract. In fact even a civil marriage can be annulled for various reasons.</p>
<p>Nobody holds a gun to anyones head and tells them they have to get married in the Catholic Church or any other church. The rules may be silly in some folks eyes but so what? Sooner or later we will all kick off and find out who was right…or not…(I meane not find out not not kick off)</p>