{"id":2201,"date":"2025-11-05T00:11:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/?p=2201"},"modified":"2025-11-05T00:11:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:11:48","slug":"woman-asks-husband-of-30-years-for-divorce-even-though-hed-done-nothing-story-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/?p=2201","title":{"rendered":"Woman Asks Husband of 30 Years for Divorce Even Though He\u2019d Done Nothing \u2014 Story of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\">On our 30th anniversary, two weeks after our youngest left, I asked Zack for divorce. \u201cYou\u2019re divorcing me?\u201d he whispered, tears falling. \u201cYes. Because you did <em>nothing<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">I listed it all: full-time job plus all housework while he watched TV; bedridden with illness, he slept; grieving my father, he said nothing; menopause depression, he ignored; twisted ankle, he snored while I cooked at 6 a.m. No flowers, no defense against his cruel mother, no romance.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\u201cYou never told me!\u201d he cried. \u201cI begged for help, affection, therapy\u2014you refused. \u2018Nothing wrong,\u2019 you said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\u201cNow I\u2019ll go to therapy!\u201d he pleaded. \u201cToo late. I needed that <em>any<\/em> of the last thirty years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">I moved to Venice Beach, sold my car, cycled to work. Danced. Changed my hair. Ditched frumpy clothes. My kids said I looked twenty years younger\u2014I <em>felt<\/em> it.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Zack fell into depression, started therapy. I felt pity, but not guilt.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">A year later, I met Sam\u2014kind, attentive, <em>present<\/em>. We\u2019re engaged for summer.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Zack? Dating a young woman who bosses him, spends his money.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">We all end where we belong. I finally chose <em>me<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On our 30th anniversary, two weeks after our youngest left, I asked Zack for divorce. \u201cYou\u2019re divorcing me?\u201d he whispered, tears falling. \u201cYes. Because you did nothing.\u201d I listed it all: full-time job plus all housework while he watched TV; bedridden with illness, he slept; grieving my father, he said nothing; menopause depression, he ignored; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/576343670_774210012311256_894581226854544434_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2203,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions\/2203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}