re: Divorce Board Spin-Off: If you have been married, why did you get married?

I got married because I genuinely loved my wife and wanted a family. It was not the right thing to do. I had to push everything and take the initiative to even make it happen. There were lot of red flags. I’m the type of person that loves giving gifts and surprising people and I absolutely loved doing things for her. No matter what I did for her nothing ever was quite right. I thought that eventually things would fall into place and make her happy. There was always some kind of adversity we were fighting or some goal we were working towards that always allowed me to think that once we got through that it would be good. We were together for almost 14 years. Lived together for almost 13. We were engaged for 5 years and married for 3. We traveled and lived all over but coming home was ultimately our undoing. I think coming back to our home and “making” it and having a child and buying a home and all the things made it clear that it was never going to be right. There was nothing to cover it up anymore. We had everything and it didn’t matter.