Why didn't Bethesda allow for a quest to get divorced?

Why are we left instead to kill our spouse so that we may be free of them?

Even if you kill them you aren't truly free, as you still cannot remarry

Marriage was a very minor thing in the game, but I agree, there should have been some kind of an option. Either do it right, or don't do it at all.

It's a long story involving Mara, the Dark Brotherhood, a barrel of mead and a goat. Suffice to say the Dark Brotherhood got the rights to take care of any divorces in Tamriel.

Divorce, while common, is not culturally accepted (the whole "marriage is sacred" philosophy), as such including it may have harmed sales with certain parents seeing such content as "inappropriate"..

Ditto.

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Still. They could have done something that allowed you to remarry in the event of an unfortunate accident, like a giant deer head falling from the wall and crushing her... or, you know, something like that.

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would still have alienated the "marriage is sacred" crowd and harmed potential sales

(btw, its really hard to read youur posts when you put them in that blood red)

Meh. I disagree.

Yet they added gay marriage and it didn't harm sales, despite it being looked down upon more than divorce is so I would say that point is moot. *So glad Bethesda didn't give in to the 'no to gay marriage' [censored]. People who look down on others for that reason are no better than bloody racists.*

Lmao @ "divorce could hurt sales". You realize you can chop peoples heads off in this game, do the bidding of demons, and buy drugs?

Bethesda also must've been concerned about backlash from cannibals, hence why they included http://uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:The_Taste_of_Death quest....