Voices: ‘I have never been happier’: Readers on life after divorce and the hidden drift in marriages

‘Rather than a constructive conversation, it is more like an argument about who is doing more jobs’ - (Getty/iStock)

Independent readers have been sharing their thoughts on midlife divorce, reflecting on marriages where one or both partners have quietly checked out.

Many described relationships that have slipped into routine, emotional distance and transaction, sustained more by finances and children than by connection or intimacy.