Best way to start this story is at the beginning. I was divorced after 10 years of marriage. For the first 7, things went as they would, normally struggling through financials, but overall, being happy, and fairly content with the whole "wedded bliss" thing. Then something changed in her. I don't know if she suddenly wanted to be free from the shackles of the whole marriage thing, if I was riding her too hard about her frivolous spending, or she just wanted to feel young again. Either way, we grew apart. Suddenly, everything she did was getting on my every last nerve.