{"id":820,"date":"2006-10-23T12:25:42","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T16:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patg.com\/Divorce\/his-wife-wants-a-divorce.htm"},"modified":"2016-05-02T09:38:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T13:38:19","slug":"his-wife-wants-a-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/his-wife-wants-a-divorce.htm","title":{"rendered":"His Wife Wants A Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 25 years, his wife wants out of their marriage. He admits that their marriage has problems and says he hasn&#8217;t been the best husband. They&#8217;ve been barely speaking and sleeping in separate bedrooms. He wants her to go to counseling with him but says she isn&#8217;t willing to attempt to fix what&#8217;s broken. He&#8217;s facing a job transfer as well as divorce.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<b>I said:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t change her mind if she&#8217;s already decided. The only thing you can do is work on your own feelings and make certain that you don&#8217;t get hurt in this separation\/divorce.<\/p>\n<p>You are on an obvious path right now. Find out what your legal options are and do whatever you consider best for the kids and yourself. Please don&#8217;t drag them into the middle of this, trying to make them see your side or making them choose between you and their mother. Single-parent homes are much more common now than they were when you were a kid so they&#8217;re not in an unfamiliar territory as they probably have classmates and friends who are going through the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>The job transfer might be a good thing, but only you can make that decision, factoring in what&#8217;s best for your children and your marriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 25 years, his wife wants out of their marriage. He admits that their marriage has problems and says he hasn&#8217;t been the best husband. They&#8217;ve been barely speaking and sleeping in separate bedrooms. He wants her to go to counseling with him but says she isn&#8217;t willing to attempt to fix what&#8217;s broken. He&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/his-wife-wants-a-divorce.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;His Wife Wants A Divorce&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3113,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/3113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}