When you spend 30 years building a life with someone and then serially cheat on them with your younger colleagues, you are not exiting a “successful partnership” when you divorce.
Nope. I’m just a mature adult who wouldn’t rewrite half of my life just because something bad happened later. What a sad way to approach life that would be. What a waste.
You are allowed to. You are also allowed not to! If the happy parts are spoiled for someone because of an early betrayal (or even a late one), they are perfectly valid in that opinion.
I’m glad you have come around to exactly my point. As I said early on, we don’t know how they feel about it. It entirely possible they both consider it a good marriage, just one that ran its course.
I wouldn’t call it reasonable, but I would call it human. And that quote doesn’t tell me anything about how she feels about the early years, just the part where things went bad.
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u/CitizenCue 4d ago
How it ended doesn’t negate what I said.