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The Tiedye Tiger's avatar

I related, my wife not so much.🤔

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Adam Chambers's avatar

I find this topic very interesting and was drawn to listen to this podcast because a 42-year-old female acquaintance of mine who seemed to be married to a perfectly decent guy with whom she had a 5-year-old and a 3-year-old suddenly detonated her marriage about 2 years ago and I was quite shocked that she did this. Her reason was "he's not my great love". He was a perfectly nice guy, had a good job, was a good father to their shared children. But he wasn't her great love. Since then she has moved 4 times, dated a series of losers, at least one of which was an alcoholic, and the father of her children has seen the relationship with his children dramatically worsen because he sees them so rarely. I am still struggling to comprehend what got into her head to do this because he wasn't her "great love".

There's always the chance stuff was going on that I don't know about, but she suggested there wasn't. I think the diagnosis Nathalie gives her is likely at the root of why she did this. Probably unfortunately for her I doubt she saw advice like this before making her decision.

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Kate Wand's avatar

Thank you so much for opening up about this! Will listen today 🙌

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Nathalie Martinek PhD's avatar

Thank you!

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