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Dear Coleen: My husband wants a divorce but I think it's a mid-life crisis

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30.04.2025

A couple of weeks ago, my husband asked if we could have a serious conversation, so we went for a walk together and he told me he wants to move out and get a divorce.

There’s no one else involved and he claims he wants to be on his own, as he’s not happy being married. I’m worried he’s depressed or having some kind of midlife crisis (we’re both in our 40s).

We don’t have children, which is a blessing, but I feel so hurt and rejected. It’s not the first time he’s done something like this. Eight years ago, just a year after we married, he walked out and said he needed to “find himself” and hated feeling restricted by marriage.

I was heartbroken then, too, but he came back after a few weeks and asked to try again, blaming his troubled childhood and absentee dad.

I don’t think he’s properly dealt with issues from his........

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