from her friends since they were all happily married and preferred not to talk about unpleasant topics like divorce.
             Hanna had lost her life just because she decided that she did not want to put up with an adulterous husband. She was made to feel inadequate and guilty because she stood up for her right to a decent marriage. Hanna felt like she was alone in the world, that no one understood the pain and hurt she was going through. She felt that other "smarter" women would have been better equipped to handle the situation.
             In reality, however, Hanna's story is the story of every divorced women. She is far from alone as divorced women all over the world face the problems she was going through and feel as helpless as she did. In this age and time, where the quest for women's rights is booming, divorced women are still a pariah, a social disease to be avoided.
             Divorce was not born with marriage; in fact, it came centuries afterwards. In the beginning, marriage was theologically viewed as being eternal. This is why there was no reason for divorce. However, during the sixteenth century, Henry the Eighth, king of England, found it necessary to divorce his wife. This was impossible, though, because the laws of the time, those of the Catholic Church strictly prohibited divorce. So, king Henry switched the religion of England from Catholicism to Protestantism. Since, Protestants did not oppose divorce, he was then able to divorce his wife. This is how divorce became known to the world, although still not favored by it.
             For many centuries, Western states still viewed marriage as virtually indissoluble. Divorces were hardly ever gran
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