I think we both mourn the loss of our intact families. I think kids never recover 100%. We're going to be with these women forever because we are parents with them. There is no "out" here. That's just one more of the reasons they are so short sighted. It's ALL in DB and DR. So plain to us. I don't think either of us misses/will miss never being right, never having a spouse who would good naturedly laugh and accept our shortcomings, or women that are so tightly wound it would take a sledgehammer to get a 10 penny nail up.......
Their reasons for leaving the family, AND THAT'S WHAT THEIR DOING are just not good enough, but I think your W and mine are both miserable in their own skins, and that will never change, whether your wife tries the other end of the salad bar, or my wife pays smarmylawyerboss back in trade for my daughters Jeep.
I don't want to be alone, but do not look forward to dating. I look at match.com occassionally and my stomach hurts. Ugh! it may come to that though. Who knows.