In a reflective narrative, the author recounts her journey to Sun Valley, Idaho, with her husband G to end their marriage after years of living apart. Despite their legal status as a married couple, the emotional distance had grown over the years, starting from a passionate college romance to an inevitable separation. The author reflects on her preconceptions of divorce, contrasting them with their unique experiences. The setting serves as neutral ground, providing a backdrop to confront the end of a long-shared life together, filled with memories and challenges.
Instinctively I reached for G, my hand hovering over his before I pulled it back. We may have looked like a couple who had been married for 25 years, and legally we were, but we had been living apart for longer than we were together.
Fourteen years earlier, I had asked G to leave our family home. At the time, I had a basic schematic of what divorce should look like: someone moves out, lawyers are called, everything is divided, children get shuffled from house to house, end of story.
I remember the moment we fell in love. I flew to New York City for the first time to visit G and his family. I had seen the city in movies and on television, but nothing prepared me for experiencing it in person.
Our dissolution did not quite turn out that way.
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