I was certainly glad when it happened but I wished it had never gotten to that point
Ditto. I still feel that somewhere along the way it definitely could have been fixed.....but cest la vie. It is hard to fix a marriage when your partner believes all the problem lie in you.
I am happy now. Happier than I had been for so many years.
"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." Jon Kabat-Zinn