They have been together for 10 years. Married 6 years. Met when they were young and unformed. At the moment their financial situation is shaky, due to her education.

They have two children. Julia, a 5 year old girl. John, a 3 year old boy. The girl has started to wet her bed, due to the tension in the home. They are both in daycare and they both have actually been doing well until the last six months. His mother has been the babysitter more than her mother. It is because her mother is somewhat sickly. She doesn´t have the energy.

They have gone from having shared the same conventional value system, way of relating, a secure and boxed-in life, where she was home with the kids.
He´s still in his boxed-in environment in the bank, and she has started to see other exciting people.

They have been arguing a lot lately, about anything and everything. It´s like they can´t even talk any more without arguing. The tiniest thing becomes a mountain. They used to be able to laugh together. They hardly been laughing at all the last year. It´s like they don´t have anything to say to each other. Maybe they didn´t before either, but there wasn´t such a chasm then between their experiences.

This has been escalating during a long period of time, and they would probably have been able to continue if his infidelity hasn´t been brought to light.

Due to this the bubble has burst. It is the breaking point.

Images: The swedish actors
Bente Danielsson, Mats Rudal
Photo by: Alexander Crispin