“My wife collapsed in the middle of her office meeting… and when the hospital called me, I almost ignored it because we had finalized our divorce only six weeks earlier.”

And I learned that love cannot survive long-term without vulnerability, honesty, and emotional safety.

Sometimes people do not fall out of love.

Sometimes they simply lose sight of each other while fighting invisible battles alone.

Looking back now, I realize our marriage did not end because we stopped caring.

It ended because neither of us understood the pain hiding beneath the surface until it was almost too late.

And maybe that is the saddest part of all.