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Does allusive divorce count if a person utters it in jest without intending divorce, and is one suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder treated the same as one jesting in this matter?

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A divorce by innuendo does not occur except with the intention of effecting a divorce, and not merely intending the meaning. The divorce of one who jokes does not occur with an innuendo, nor does the divorce of one afflicted by obsessive doubts who utters a divorce due to the overwhelming nature of these doubts—whether with an explicit or innuendo-based pronouncement—occur. He must, therefore, turn away from these obsessive doubts.

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