I’m struggling to understand.....

I have had a very long and happy marriage which is just as well really as when we married we married for life.

Very true grannylyn-just seems so sad after all those years.

Gosh this couple must be 80y, give or take. I agree, after a lifetime together it does seem strange.

Not for you to understand

You never know what goes on behind the front door. A marriage that appears happy to everyone else can hide misery and abuse.

Also, as some people get older their tolerance levels can diminish - meaning they take decisions they may have not dared to do earlier on.

The ending of any marriage is sad, but can also be for the best.

My Mum was always very pragmatic about marriage problems....which was a bit daft as hers to my father was pretty grim....any road up she did used to say that no one really knows what goes on behind closed doors and only those within a marriage have any idea about it. Mind you I'm still of the opinion that even those within a marriage do not fully know what's going on.....we might know ourselves but do we ever really know the other person? Recent events in our family have proved to me that I do not know even those closest too me as well as I thought I did.