Tracy Bryan had been married 25 years when she realized she did not want to spend the rest of her life with her college sweetheart. "We had grown and changed," said Bryan, now 53, and divorced.
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"We had grown and changed," said Bryan, now 53, whose divorce from her college sweetheart was final in 2008. "I changed what I wanted out of life."
As baby boomers approach retirement age looking forward to many more long, healthy years of life, the number of couples calling it quits after decades of marriage is on the rise.
Born between 1946 and 1964, boomers already have a divorce rate triple that of their parents. And now they're pioneering a new trend in splitting up: the so-called "gray divorce" phenomenon of couples going their separate ways 20 or more years together.
Their parents were labeled the "Greatest Generation." Now some experts are calling baby boomers "the greatest divorcing generation."
As AARP California's Christina Clem says, the baby boom remains at the center of a huge cultural shift.
Source: Anita Creamer, The Sacramento Bee
