I don't think so. I think she was lured away by OM. The marriage was in its 7th year, at the worst it had been, but still not bad. She still talked of having kids during the summer, wrote me very nice cards, and worked on things like painting the deck, the month before she got fed up. She didn't entirely get fed up, though. Someone at work lured her away. It's a lot easier to "get fed up" when there is something pulling you away. So she grasped at all kinds of stupid reasons to leave me, the first being that I slept too late in the mornings during our anniversary trip. She couldn't tell me until it was done and I couldn't do anything about it. She admitted herself that before she started that job in the summer, it was like she was on an island, not realizing there were all these other islands around her with all these great possibilities. She saw the things other couples had and wanted those things. The coworker OM, with a wife and 4 kids, now visits her some nights at her new place. Completely savory visits? Yeah, right? And I have plenty of evidence that before she left me she was into him. She didn't give up a long time ago. She went wayward some time in the Fall, likely around the time she went cold.
M: 33, W: 30 @BD M 7, T 10 BD: Early Dec W left: Late Dec W got stuff: Late Jan W sent S papers: Mid Feb OM cnfrmd: Late Feb
Pain can yield tremendous growth OR everlasting sadness and bitterness.