And many millions more who lead lives of quiet desperation, stuck in a marriage that soured long ago, but they stay in either for religious or financial reasons. You know the worst moment in most marriages? When the husband retires.There are millions of people that live out their lives in a loving relationship, enjoying the love of a partner and the joy of a family that comes with it.
I once had a job in a resort area that catered to bus trips of retirees, mostly widowed women. These women were having the time of their lives, no longer anchored to a spouse who expected to be waited on hand and foot, as if their day raising the kids was any less exhausting than his day at work. And of course there was sex, sex usually for his pleasure and his alone. And she was expected to go along even though she tired of it years ago.
If you think that your happy marriage was the rule rather than the exception, you are deluding yourself. 50% of marriages today end in divorce. If not for financial or religious reasons or the stigma that still lingers, that figure would be much closer to 90%.
Inspector Renault's post pretty much nails it.