Got two divorce stories for ya! But these are both from the same person.
I've got a sort-of friend who I almost never see. Whenever we do see each other, though, we only talk "deep stuff" like relationships and stuff like that.
So I learned today that she's on her third marriage! I asked her if they were mutual splits. She said that she instigated both of them.
With the first marriage, she said, he had a horrible temper and she was afraid of him. So when she told him she was leaving, she made sure that she was in a public place and that she had already packed up everything in the house. And then she was gone.
With the second marriage, she said that he was really controlling. So she said that wasn't working for her. She actually said that she used marital counseling as her way to get through to him-- that a third party could help him see that they weren't a good match. Eventually, he agreed to the divorce. (At first he wanted to make it work.) She said that now he's married to a girl who has no interests, so he controls her life. Like he always wanted to.
And she said now she's with her soulmate. They've been married for 4 years, together for 7.
I was a little bit like, "Um, why are you so quick to get married?" But of course I didn't say anything like that. I just think that if these matches were so awful, it should have been evident before marriage.
So, wanted to pass along the divorce stories to ya!
