Is the husband's saying "Yes, you are divorced" - after the wife's saying "If I were divorced from you, I would do such-and-such" - considered a divorce if the husband intended thereby to inform her that she could do as she pleased at the time of divorce, and not to initiate a divorce?

Divorce does not take effect by what the husband utters if he does not intend to initiate it by saying: "Yes, you are divorced," but rather says it by way of possibility, for intention is a pillar of divorce. The spouses should avoid quarrels and communicate with mutual respect to achieve family stability.