Melanie and Joe had lived together for five years, then tied the knot last summer in a lavish wedding with loads of friends and no cost spared.
And now, not even half a year later, they were separated, living in different places and set on divorce.
Why, after 5 years, had she become “abrasive” to him? She’d always been a big woman, but to be called “more than the handful this guy can handle”?
As she had suspected, another woman had entered the picture. The ex-girlfriend of some remote relative invited to the wedding.
But things weren’t all that bad. In a way it felt like a fog had lifted – she was now enjoying life and, going out with the girls, rediscovering a freedom she hadn’t even known she’d missed.
Joe, she knew now in heart and mind, was no loss. Strange that it had taken a wedding to show her…
– James Steerforth (© 1011)
Written using abrasive, handful, loss from 3WW. Not even fiction … this is what happened to a colleague of mine.
Steer Forth! 
a different take ..sad but uplifting
Love lost, quickly spelled out. I wanted them to try harder!
life is like that sometimes.It takes two and some pople won’t work at
it like this women’s husband soon tobe ex.very well written.
You never know what someone is really like until you live with them every day – still, a sad ending.