The moment our marriage was over
Writers recount the moment they realized that nothing could save their relationship
The moment our marriage was over: 'With a few words, she destroyed my life'
I never expected to fall in love again in the waning years of middle age, with a failed marriage behind me. But this love did not lend to living together as spouses
The moment our marriage was over: 'I shook as I held his cellphone'
When my husband came home from a work trip and was different, it wasn’t long before I discovered why – but it took his refusal to change to get me to finally draw the line in the sand
The moment our marriage was over: 'I had to tell him that I loved someone else'
The day my husband discovered weeks’ worth of lurid texts with another man was one of the worst days of my life, as I dug myself into an even deeper hole
The moment my marriage was over: 'I found my husband smoking meth'
What I didn’t recognize for a long time after my husband left was that this was not about our marriage or our child. It was about his unrelenting addiction
The moment our marriage was over: 'I saw a complete lack of kindness'
I found myself asking him to be nicer to me – he’d already vacated our partnership without realizing it – and I knew that something had changed
The moment my marriage was over: 'What if he hadn’t read my email?'
Sometimes I wonder if we would have gotten divorced if he hadn’t read my emails expressing doubts about our marriage
The moment my marriage was over: 'I had no idea I was living with a drug dealer'
I was a student holding the military draft at bay, and she was a pampered girl who liked to party – and I knew it was over 48 hours after we were married
