lovemyguy, our situations are so similar! I, too, am a very liberal person, but marriage with kids to me is something else. This is my second marriage, btw.
When two people without kids divorce, it's still not good, but it's between two adults. When there's a fundamental, dangerous problem in the marriage it changes things. I don't think I'm saying these things to justify my first divorce, but we were two childless adults and one was a raging alcoholic. That's the main reason I left.
I get so angry when I think of him just up and leaving because he's uncomfortable. He's choosing himself over our kids, over our family, our vows. I was a good wife (though I do need to make some improvements), a good Mom and I took care of myself. Why should I have to pay because he can't deal?
All he saw was his Mom run away when things got difficult. Even now, though she's saying that we should work it out for the kid's sake, she ends with, "in the end, it's most important that we make ourselves happy." All he ever wanted in his adulthood was the things he missed as a child. He's got them and now he's changed his mind??
Me: 42/H: 37 T: 10 years/M: 8 D9, S8 Bomb: 7.23.07 Separated: 1.20.08 D Final 3.19.09 Affair started in '05, found out parts in 11/07. They married 11.26.09