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In many traditions and statutes of civil or religious law, the consummation of a marriage, often called simply consummation, is the first (or first officially credited) act of sexual intercourse between two people, either following their marriage to each other or after a prolonged sexual attraction.
An annulment, like a divorce, legally ends a marriage but does so by treating the marriage as if it never happened. These are quite rare. A divorce means both spouses go through a legal process where they are no longer marriage and divide up assets, such as property, and responsibilities, such as child care.