'I love my husband...which is why I'm divorcing him.'

Should you leave a marriage when you still love your partner? This woman thinks so, after walking away from her husband of 21 years

The tears started before we’d even reached the end of the street on the day I asked my husband for a divorce. 

 Afterwards, he told me he knew what was happening the moment I asked him to go for a walk at 8am in the pouring rain on the second day of a brand new year.

‘Rich, I think it’s over for us. And I think it has been for years,’ I said. ‘I still love you, but I’m not in love you anymore and I don’t think you’re in love with me either.’ 

 He didn’t rail, or shout, or cry. Instead he listened quietly and calmly.

 “You’re so brave” were the first words out of his mouth. And then we planned how we were going to break apart our 21 year marriage.