post disallusionment

Finding out there was no Santa Claus was hard enough, now this! Much worse to contemplate than the Captain and Tenille divorce is this terrible news.
I have been struggling with the unbelievable story that Nicholas Sparks and his wife Cathy are separating. Finding a new normal is all I can ask for.
Once deemed "the most romantic man in America" this best selling romance scribe is divorcing his wife of 25 years and now I find it impossible to believe in anything anymore!

Spark's soon to be ex wife Cathy was apparently the inspiration behind many of his tough but sensitive, scrappy but effortlessly beautiful, and lively heroines.. such as Allie in The Notebook.
What could have possibly gone wrong to drive these two apart? Should I just go jump off a rustic pier on the Carolina coast, bathed in golden afternoon sunlight and slightly humid air... while birds call in the background...

There are many scenarios but of course we will never really know...
Maybe they had a big fight over the insanely terrible casting in the last Spark's film adaption: The Best of Me.
The casting for the younger version of James Mardsen was so bad that I wondered who owed who a favor in Hollywood,  or what casting director is really struggling...These two are not believable as the same person in time lapse. If you don't believe me, watch the trailer! I can't even watch this movie as a guilty pleasure (and I love to watch these Nicholas Sparks movies - Dear John, The Last Song, A Walk to Remember, it goes on and on) but The Best of Me? All I can say is UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Maybe Nicholas and Cathy went to see Boyhood and she just couldn't stop talking about the innovative and groudbreaking real-time aging of all the characters and how brilliant that Richard Linklater is! Now there's a real writer! Why can't you do that Nicholas?

Maybe they split  over fights about The Notebook. Perhaps his wife got upset with what is perhaps the worst portrayal of dementia or a memory care facility in the history of film? The Notebook's portrayal of a dementia care facility was pure fiction and Sparks did not do his research. Why did all the same nurses work all the shifts, round the clock, day, night, all the time? Why did they let James Garner (Noa) live there? Oh well, even if it caused their breakup, I STILL Love The Notebook!!! See above for my favorite scene.
We can find solace in the following quotes:

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss
“The heart was made to be broken.” — Oscar Wilde
“It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.” — Nicholas Sparks!!!