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Does saying "you are divorced" accidentally, as part of an internal monologue, constitute a divorce, especially if the wife was not present at the time of utterance?

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If the pronouncement of divorce occurs during an imaginative scenario of what transpires between you and your wife, and you did not intend thereby to initiate a divorce, then no divorce takes effect. You must be careful not to indulge in such fantasies.

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