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Thousands of years ago marriage consisted of one man and multiple women. Mostly the women were bought from their fathers, they had no say in who they were going to marry. Also it was common to take the virgins of the people you conquered in wars as you wives or concubines or sex slaves. Marriage was good for the man, not so much for the women.
But they don't. As I said people just fall out of love.
I don't care what your god has to say though. I don't believe in your god and I am against forcing people to believe in your god and doing things your god commands you. You obey your god and as long as that doesn't involve other people I don't care.
They get to determine what their purpose in life is, not you.
Have you ever read the bible? It sounds like you never did. For example
2 Samuel 12:11-12
Here because David had sex with Batsheba God decides to punish him by having his wives raped. Later on his own son indeed rapes all of his wives on the roof in the view of the entire town.
Maybe they just don't believe in your god. Have you ever considered that?
Why should they be shamed or shunned for mutually consensual sex?
Depends. If you read the bible god did indeed order the stoning of women who commit infidelity but the men were never commanded to be killed. At worst they paid some money. If they raped a woman their punishment was to marry that woman so that they could continue to rape her legally for the rest of their lives.