{"id":28792,"date":"2025-05-28T21:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T19:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=28792"},"modified":"2025-05-28T21:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T19:53:08","slug":"woman-asks-husband-of-30-years-for-divorce-even-though-hed-done-nothing-story-of-the-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=28792","title":{"rendered":"Woman Asks Husband of 30 Years for Divorce Even Though He\u2019d Done Nothing \u2014 Story of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

My husband was shocked and hurt when I asked for a divorce after thirty years of marriage. He felt he had always been a good husband. But I had a reason he didn\u2019t even guessed about.<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t it funny how people\u2019s perceptions of the very same event can be so different? Even something like a marriage. My husband Zack thought he was a happily married man, I knew I was unhappy.<\/p>\n

Our two realities finally clashed when I asked him for a divorce on our thirtieth wedding anniversary, two weeks after our third and youngest child left home.<\/p>\n

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\nZack thought he had a perfect life | Source: Shutterstock.com<\/p>\n

He stood there staring at me in absolute shock. \u201cWhat?\u201d he asked. \u201cWho\u2019s getting a divorce?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou,\u201d I told him. \u201cOr rather, I am.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zack sat down heavily, still staring. \u201cYou\u2019re divorcing me?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes,\u201d I repeated. \u201cI\u2019m divorcing you.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nZack couldn\u2019t believe it when I asked him for a divorce | Source: Unsplash<\/p>\n

\u201cBut why?\u201d he cried, and I was surprised to see tears in his eyes. \u201cI love you, Kelly, I always have, and I never cheated on you, not ever!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s true,\u201d I said. \u201cYou never cheated and you never drank or gambled.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the most important things in a relationship is to LISTEN to what the other person is really saying.
\n\u201cBut\u2026Then why?\u201d he asked angrily. \u201cI did NOTHING and you\u2019re divorcing me? Are you having an affair?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNO!\u201d I cried. \u201cI\u2019m not! Do you want to know why I\u2019m leaving you, Zack? I\u2019ll tell you\u2026\u201d I walked right up to him and looked him in the eyes.<\/p>\n

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\nI explained why I was leaving but he didn\u2019t understand | Source: Pixabay<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m leaving you because you did NOTHING! When the children came and I was holding a full-time job and coming home to do the housework alone, you did NOTHING.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was so ill I could barely get out of bed, you did NOTHING; when my father died and I was devastated by grief, you did NOTHING; when I went through menopause and had depression, you did NOTHING.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was so sad that our two oldest children left home, you did NOTHING. You never brought me a flower just to say you loved me, you never stood up for me when your mother was so mean to me.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat time I twisted my ankle and I could barely walk, I had to get out of bed at 6:00 am and fix breakfast \u2014 and you lay there snoring and did NOTHING. Nothing seems to be what you do best!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nI reminded him of all the times I needed help and he turned away | Source: Unsplash<\/p>\n

\u201cYou never told me!\u201d Zack cried with an injured look on his face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My husband was shocked and hurt when I asked for a divorce after thirty years of marriage. He felt he had always been a good husband. But I had a reason he didn\u2019t even guessed about. Isn\u2019t it funny how people\u2019s perceptions of the very same event can be so different? Even something like a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28797,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28792\/revisions\/28797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}