The Divorce of Devotion: Why Ending a Marriage Is the Last Rational Way to Save It

When the cost of keeping a spouse alive threatens to leave the other broke, a legal split becomes an act of survival.

At 71, David and Susan still held hands during their evening walks. Then Susan’s Parkinson's accelerated, and the monthly bill for her care facility jumped to $11,500. Within eighteen months, their lifetime savings of $280,000 was gone, leaving David with a stark choice: sell the house they built together, or find a legal loophole to stop the bleeding. That loophole is divorce.

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