To my thinking, in your position what's essential is the formation of a new attitude to one another.
And that can only rest on a basis of freedom on both sides.
" "Divorce," Alexey Alexandrovitch interrupted, in a tone of aversion.
"Yes, I imagine that divorce--yes, divorce," Stepan Arkadyevitch repeated, reddening.
" That is from every point of view the most rational course for married people who find themselves in the position you are in.