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[quote=Anonymous]If it were my sister (or mom or best friend) who I had pretty good open relations with, i would probably genuinely ask if she'd contemplated whether she wanted to stay with him.  Based on the limited info you provided, it sounds like you're not 100% sure if she really needs to divorce him - but you would probably divorce if you were in her shoes.  So i would not go so far as to say "you need to divorce him" -- because you just don't know what someone else is thinking, what their priorities are, what is really happening behind the scenes that you don't know about.

But by the exact same reasoning (you don't know all the specifics), i would have no problem tiptoeing into the question to get a bit more info, and see if they had thought about leaving him.  And then if they remotely mention any concerns with the marriage, it gives you an entree to non-judgmentally say that you support them no matter what, that you don't have enough info to tell them what to do, but if they do divorce, that it won't be the end of the world, no one will judge them either way, and they have people to help them through it, etc.  [/quote]

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