Marrying A Wrong person can be draining

Previously

…The pain of this ending was sharp, but it was the pain of healing, of shedding a burden that would have crushed him in the long run. He had glimpsed the true Eleanor, the one who hid behind a facade, and he knew that the marriage he had dreamed of, one filled with laughter, trust, and enduring peace, could never exist with her. The cracks in the foundation were too deep, the lies too pervasive. He had chosen wisely, not out of cleverness or superior intellect, but out of a desperate, fundamental need for his own sanity. The road ahead would be lonely for a time, but it would be a road paved with truth, and that, he now understood, was the only path to genuine happiness.