My marriage of 21 years is, as of June 2025, over. It’s been a long time coming and I am not upset at all. Why? Because I pulled the plug whereas she did not.
Why would I do such a thing, especially after more than two decades together? Because of a traffic incident on July 4th, 2025 that involved a car full of Mexicans, likely illegal, every one of them. In hindsight, it wasn’t as a big of a deal as I thought it was. But I had to do the right thing.
Yes, I blew up at them and the responding police officer. But they were surely a gaggle of Mexicans. Of course I’m going to blow up! Had they been anything other than Mexican or black, I would have been a lot calmer and more respectful to everyone involved.
But rather than get upset, my wife chose to be nice about it all. It was there, on the side of the highway, that I decided that I had enough. I realize now that the past decade has been a complete waste. For all that time, I had to stand by and watch her be nice to people.
Well, tolerating that flawed personally trait is something that I am no longer willing to do. The marriage was twenty years of wasted time. Nothing good came out of it.
The police officer told me that I wasn’t involved because I wasn’t driving nor was I on the insurance. The former is true, the latter is not.
The police officer refused to involve a supervisor and did not allow me to participate in the conversation, even though I am on the car insurance, so I will absolutely file an internal affairs complaint. It’ll be interesting to see how that plays out.
Anyway, the marriage is over. I simply can no longer abide a woman is nice at times when being nice is not called for.
I would like to make this legal without hesitation. However, thanks to state law, I cannot file for divorce until January 4th, 2026. There’s only one ground that I can honestly and ethically use: irretrievable breakdown of the marriage.
Because the incident that led to my leaving her happened on the 4th of July, I have to wait six months. That’s fine. I can handle that. The bigger problem will be how the Catholic Church handles it as this marriage cannot be annulled. But that’s for another day.
So what happens now? Well, I look for my next and ideal companion. Messing around with someone from work and with a nurse who took care of me a couple of years ago as I have been is a temporary fix. And this time around, I won’t be shy about kicking the tires before I drive the car.
Here are the qualifications:
Those are the major qualifications. I am not willing to compromise on those qualifications. I’m pretty much looking for something to happen immediately.