I wanted to like this book

Further context: Note that the date on the review is 2013.

Off topic, but the wording of your sentence amusingly sounds like the book was written by the person that founded the wife of Amazon.

Searching deep in oneself for the love that once existed.

Anyone who has been through a bad divorce, as a spouse, child or friend of a spouse will know what it means. It’s the difference between trying to find a way to change a relationship in a way that allows for it to continue, and something acrimonious. A lot of divorces are pretty ugly, often involving infidelity, loss of interest or financial troubles. Sometimes though, people just find that they’ve (to use a popular metaphor) grown apart. Two and a half decades brings a lot of life experience and change to a person, and it can be that a couple finds they’re no longer romantically compatible even if they still love each other.

I take this statement then to mean, at face value, that this is a mutual decision being made after attempts to salvage the relationship have indicated a need for change. Of course people also lie to put the best spin on things, but in this context I can only speak to the statement itself, not its veracity.

I've seen this divorce story posted, flagged, and taken down from the front page maybe 3-4 times now. And rightly so: it's a private matter that seems out of place on an aggregator for tech news. The level of discourse in those flagged submissions never rose above the level of a TMZ gossip column.

Dragging this submission out and using it as a pretext to discuss the divorce just seems perverse.