Regarding Divorce in Islam

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Assalamu Alaikum

After a fresh nikah with new mahr, does a previous divorce count? I hear that for sunni muslims it does.

Also, can a muslim woman divorce herself? In my country there is no such option as khula. If the husband gives the wife the right to divorce during nikah, a wife can go to the "kaji", sign three papers stating that she is divorcing her husband, infront of two witnesses, and the "kaji" sends these papers to the husband over three months period. I had signed these papers(my husband was not present there at the moment, he didn't want the divorce, although when I handed him the first paper he didn't say anything) and after a few days I came to know that a woman cannot divorce her husband, she can only divorce through khula. Therefore after the first menstruation I considered myself to be divorced through khula. I didn't bother stopping the next two papers that were meant to be sent because I already considered myself divorced through khula, and there is no second and third khula. I had already decided to remarry my husband, and I didn't think the next two papers would make any difference. The man I was married to was not physically interested in me. I was also mentally depressed at that time, for which I am taking medication now. I am doing much better now with the treatment and want to remarry him, despite his lack of physical interest in me. Is that possible without doing halalah?

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