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Guess you'd have to ask them. Lots of reasons. Kids finally gone so they don't have that connection any longer, career changes don't mesh with lifestyle, fed up with financial realities, mid-life crises, promised goals never reached, plain old boredom to name just a few.
There are an infinite amount of reasons. A lot of people aren't meant to stay together forever. 10 to 20 yrs is not medium to me. Seems like a long time.
Sometimes people go into marriage not acknowledging red flags or really understanding the person they are marrying.
I was married for 11 years, with him for 16. In retrospect, if I had possessed more knowledge, and possibly self-esteem, I would have seen what was coming, but I wasn't experienced with alcoholism. I assumed that like me, he knew that fun we had hanging out and partying would mostly dissipate once we started having a family and got older. Instead, it was the opposite. He got significantly worse once he became a father, and eventually, I realized that drinking and partying were the number one priority in his life and always would be.
I divorced him because life is terribly difficult living with an alcoholic, and I came to understand that all the hopes and dreams and plans for our future had always been mine only, not his. In short, there was absolutely no point in remaining married, plus I had my daughter to think of. She was eight when I threw him out, and now as an adult, she thanks me for doing so.
A former co-worker waited until his kids were grown before divorcing for two reasons; he wanted to be with them while they were growing up and he wanted to avoid child support payments with no say in how they were spent and court ordered college tuition.
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