yeah I know you did not ask!
Divorce is never easy, sometimes very necessary, but never easy. While going through mine during the last century I came across the following that accurately described how I felt at the time.
Divorce is like hacking off one of your limbs, yourself, using a rusty, very dull, undersized pocket knife.
Oucher for sure.
I was thinking about divorce for reasons I do not need to get into here, but when do you know it is time to get a divorce? Obviously, it is a very complex situation with many factors, and it is different for every person/couple. Getting divorce can be expensive, time consuming, and emotionally devastating. Frequently it is not for the weak of heart.
However, I think the when can be summarized by saying it is when one or both persons in a marriage stop treating the other person with respect, especially if it is a long term pattern. It is time to go. It is time to split the blanket. Life is too damn short to live like that.
And so it goes… about 50% of the time in the United States of Acrimony.