response: Well it's not the same thing.  Annulment deems the marriage both null and void.
original_response: Thank you. I appreciate it, and I feel the same towards you. Sometimes I wish I should have had it annulled at the beginning.. made it null and void so it wouldn't have counted.
history: Divorce is a tough process to go through. I divorced in 2001 after 15 years of marriage. Oh really?  Did you know it's also called dissolution of marriage?  It dissolves the matrimonial bonds, under a country or state's rule of law. Do you know much about the laws governing divorce? I do!  Monogamy is legally required in most countries.  Thus divorce frees each former partner so they can marry someone else. I kind of knew that.  I know about my own situation, but why do most people get divorces? Um for various reasons!  Some examples are a personality clash, both or one of the spouses not having enough independence, and sexual incompatibility. Hmm interesting.  I've heard the term annulment, is that similar to divorce?
knowledge: Divorce should not be confused with annulment, which declares the marriage null and void; with legal separation or ''de jure'' separation (a legal process by which a married couple may formalize a ''de facto'' separation while remaining legally married) or with ''de facto separation'' (a process where the spouses informally stop cohabiting).