tl;dr: Daughter explains her parents divorce and unknowingly shows us some RP truths.

I am a RP newbie and mostly a lurker and this is my first post. I suspected that lots of RP truths are true even before I knew exactly what RP is, but only now that I found this sub, it all kinda makes sense. I saw this on my FB feed and could not help to see it through RP's eyes immediately, so I am sharing it - if mods think this is useless, delete it - I don't care.

“I’m trying to focus on my first year in college while my parents get divorced. They told me when I came home for Thanksgiving break. They’ve been together since they were my age. Dad wanted to be a successful artist. He was always the dreamer. He was the one that played games with me, while Mom was the one that helped me with my homework. I just don’t think that Mom felt she could grow with him anymore. She’d recently gone back to school and gotten a new job. Dad is still hoping that his art will get noticed. She thinks he needs to be realistic. He thinks she lost hope too early. Ever since they decided to separate, I noticed that a light seemed to dim in my dad. But a light seemed to grow in my mom.”

http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/136886429346/im-trying-to-focus-on-my-first-year-in-college

https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/?fref=nf

Married since teenagers, so probably an oldschool type of relationship. A kid. A seemingly happy and successful marriage. But woman wants more. She cannot "grow" with him anymore. The "a light in my mom" sentence further confirms this.

Man married her for who she is. Woman married him for who she expected him to be. We are different.

Maybe some marriages will be really successful and happy. Maybe some people will win the lottery tomorrow. But the odds are not in your favor.

[edit] Reading the comments of divorced women under FB post is further gold. They are hamstering like there is no tomorrow.