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How can one be rid of a wife who has hated sex for 10 years of marriage, which has led to addiction to masturbation and abandoning prayer, with a new love interest, and an inability to divorce or remarry, and a feeling of despair and a desire to die?

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The husband must teach his wife the obligation of responding to the marital bed and correct her misconception about marital intimacy, as intimacy is not汚穢 (filthy). The prophets had wives and offspring. The wife might be ill, or the reason might be due to the husband and his approach. He must treat her and seek medicine for her, and it is also advisable to learn the art of intimacy and how to arouse a woman. The husband should take the initiative to pray and repent for abandoning prayer, repent for watching pornographic movies and images, and for having a relationship with a foreign girl. He may marry her according to what Allah has made lawful if she is religious and of good character. If he fears temptation for himself and is capable of polygyny, he should marry a second wife.

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