"You are with a person for a reason you made those wedding vows and it is devastating when suddenly that person doesn’t care for you.” You are with a person for a reason you made those wedding vows and it is devastating when suddenly that person doesn’t care for you.” “We had different ways of accepting things. “It wasn’t pleasant when it came to who gets what of the belongings, but that’s human nature,” he said. It was a rough first year after the divorce. So, you live with it, while forcing yourself to get up and through the day … this was my reality.” “If you don’t understand depression, you don’t see it. “I suffered and still do from depression, which didn’t help,” he said. Then came the abandonment by his social network, the in-laws and the other couple friends they shared. There was a mourning for the concrete things - for instance, his home.
It was so gradual that I didn’t even realize we were growing apart.”Īt 50 years old, John found himself navigating an alien terrain as a single man.ĭivorce may mean the painful end of one relationship, but it doesn’t mean the split partners can’t find someone else to be happy with. Then, over the years, we fell into a habit of doing things without each other. man, whose identity Saltwire Network has agreed to protect for privacy reasons. “I was 23 when I got married,” said the Halifax, N.S.
While John knew his marriage of 27 years was struggling, nothing could prepare him for the physical shock of his wife declaring it was over. It was a gradual descent of growing apart and doing separate routines, where the holding of hands, the laughter, surprises and the gentle whispers of “I love you” at night had faded long ago.
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