I wonder what causes people who once thought they’d spend their life together to not want to do that anymore.
Has your partner changed? Or did they not change when you expected them to? Have you changed?
Have you not noticed each others’ flaws when love was young and the pink glasses still worked and only discovered them later?
And what can your experience teach us about our own relationships?
My first wife wanted to get married, she didn’t want to be married. The wedding itself and maybe the honeymoon (fancy cruise in the bridal suite) were what she really cared about. Almost 25 years later I got married again and after our kid was born she said I smelled differently and she was repulsed by me. She decided she didn’t want to be married anymore. 5 years later and neither of us are dating anyone. (I have no desire to get back with her.)
Oh, man, that’s brutal.