“How can I be missing her after all the fighting and yelling we’ve done the past year or two? It’s so nice to be in my own place and have peace and quiet. Damn, it sure is lonely. It’s great to be a bachelor again, but after 15 years of married life, who wants to chase women and play all those games? Wonder why the kids don’t call. Keeping house is sure a drag. I wonder what she’s doing. Do you suppose she is nicer to her dates than she was to me? “What really went wrong? Two nice kids, a good job, nice home, and I certainly loved her when we married. But she had been so unaffectionate and cold over the years. She never seemed to have time for me. Or was it that I never had time for her? When we dated, she was so flexible—she’d do anything with me. But after our first child, she seemed to become so conservative. She wouldn’t do anything daring. I had so little leisure time, with working so hard to give the family a good life. Why couldn’t she do what I wanted when I was free? It’s really all her fault. Of course, I could have included her more in my work world. Maybe if I had shared more of my business problems with her, she’d have been more understanding. It’s true that I am awfully short-tempered when the pressure is on. Certainly, I didn’t listen to her much after a while. It seemed as if she only complained. I get enough of that at the office. You don’t suppose there was someone else? Maybe it was all my fault. A failure at marriage, that’s me. Never thought it could happen to me. When did it start? Who first thought of divorce? Maybe the idea came because all our friends seemed to be divorcing.” On and on go the thoughts of this newly divorced man. Anger, guilt, frustration, conflict, insecurity, and emotional upheaval are the bedmates of divorce. “Our culture says that marriage is forever, and yet I failed to make a go of it. Why?” The whys keep churning up thoughts, and endless questioning follows marital breakdown. There are so many questions, doubts, and fears.