Having your wife leave after all those years sucks. I know first-hand. My wife left me while my daughter and I were out of town. On Mother's Day, 2016 I came home to a nearly empty house. A marriage of 32 years down the drain. The last few years our marriage wasn't the greatest, but I assumed when you're married for that long it was just the way it was going to be. When she left me, she was the judge, jury, and executioner of what she wanted and what she didn't want is what I got to keep. That bit still irritates me even six years later.
I was devastated. The first few days I don't think I saw color. It seemed everything was gray. I tried just about everything to get her back, but her mind was made up. Fast forward to now and my life is completely different. I met, and married, a truly wonderful woman. She is 180 degrees opposite of my ex-wife.
I know our circumstances are very different, but the saying about time healing wounds is true. When my ex-wife and I talk now I have absolutely no feelings for her. None. She even told me a couple of years after our split she knew she made a mistake and hoped we could somehow get back together. I didn't say anything, but I wanted to laugh in her face. I don't think she thought I would be able to move on so quickly after our divorce. I figured I had emotionally spent everything I had to get back together, and it didn't change a thing. She still pressed on with the divorce. In my mind it was time to move on and stop dwelling on it.
GORICO, keep your chin up. Take pride you had a long marriage. I sure there were a lot of good times in your years together. The hurt will eventually ease.