Is that so far fetched? He probably thought his marriage was okay up til that point. This bomb was a little different than ours, but it was probably his wake up call.
Just look at a lot of the situations on here and you'll find all kinds of instances where "love is blind".
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt