Actually, number 3 was the best of the batch for her! but it turns out he's not very supportive and, in fact, very critical of her son. He's also very rigid and controlling in many ways so sister has had enough. It's actually quite positive that she's the one who decided it was time to part ways. The last two R's were horrid and she kept on taking it. That may be the common denominator in all our R's, we each take too much crap from our spouses, most people would move on a lot quicker than we do in my family. I know that my mother, love her dearly, has always been super critical of my Dad, it's just a fact of life that we all grew up with. Being bitched at was just a part of being married so probably brother and I just didn't see it in as negative a light as we should have. So we hang in there taking the crap when most people would be moving on. Who really knows, eh?