You really need to go back and finish the article. You stopped about halfway through and missed the premise of the article. This is what happens when our attention spans get so small.

What she was going through (the part of the article that you read) is NORMAL for married couples after a certain amount of time.

After 22 years with the same woman, there are phases in that relationship and when most people get to the rough patch, they call it quits instead of grind through it because of that 'thing' that brought them together.

I'm not going to spoil the ending for you because you need to read it, but you did miss out on what happened.