{"id":4045,"date":"2025-07-02T13:57:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=4045"},"modified":"2025-07-02T13:57:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:57:38","slug":"couple-divorces-after-56-years-of-marriage-because-man-thinks-they-are-too-old-for-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=4045","title":{"rendered":"Couple Divorces after 56 Years of Marriage Because Man Thinks They Are Too Old for Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 56 years of marriage, Erin complained that Mike had stopped bringing her flowers. When she accused him of losing interest or cheating, Mike exploded\u2014he was tired of being the only one making romantic gestures all these decades. He\u2019d done everything: dates, flowers, gifts. Erin realized he was right: she\u2019d never shown much romance in return, thinking her homemaking duties sufficed.<\/p>\n<p>Determined to change, she tried initiating dates and buying gifts herself\u2014but Mike rebuffed her efforts. He said that after their long life together, he just wanted to relax and stop \u201ctrying so hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two months later, feeling unloved and unsettled, Erin asked for a divorce. Mike was shocked but agreed to move out. Soon after, Erin suffered a heart attack. At the hospital, Mike rushed back, took care of her, and afterward refused to leave her side\u2014devoting himself to nursing her recovery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>After 56 years of marriage, Erin complained that Mike had stopped bringing her flowers. When she accused him of losing interest or cheating, Mike exploded\u2014he <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=4045\" title=\"Couple Divorces after 56 Years of Marriage Because Man Thinks They Are Too Old for Romance\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4047,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions\/4047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}