Mia Thornton Shares New Details on the Timeline of Her Separation from Gordon: "No One Knew"

Back in September 2023, Mia Thornton announced that she and Gordon Thornton had separated after a decade of marriage. At the time, Season 8 of The Real Housewives of Potomac had already wrapped, but cameras picked back up to capture the aftermath of the couple’s divorce that is set to play out.

On the Season 8 finale of RHOP, which aired on March 24, viewers got to see Mia and Gordon have a candid discussion about their split, where she opened up about what led to their marriage downfall and when exactly they decided to go their separate ways.

When did Mia Thornton and Gordon Thornton separate?

Although Miaspanissued a statement to/spanemspana href="https://people.com/real-housewives-of-potomac-mia-thornton-gordon-thornton-separate-exclusive-7963620" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"People/a/span/emspanrevealing that she and Gordon had “separated” in the fall of 2023, the emRHOP/em ‘Wife confirmed in a confessional on Season 8, Episode 18 that they initially parted ways in July 2023. /span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p pspanspanspanspanspanspanspanspan“No one knew,” she said. “Is [Gordon] hurt? Yeah, he doesn’t want me to divorce him. He doesn’t want me to stay with him…”/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p h3Here's What You May Have Missed on Bravo:/h3 pa data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/mia-thornton-reveals-why-she-almost-didnt-marry-gordon" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/mia-thornton-reveals-why-she-almost-didnt-marry-gordon" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/mia-thornton-reveals-why-she-almost-didnt-marry-gordon" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"strongMia Thornton Says She Almost Didn't Marry Gordon Thornton Because He Lacks *This*/strong/a/p pstronga data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/mia-thornton-husband-gordon-new-man" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/mia-thornton-husband-gordon-new-man" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/mia-thornton-husband-gordon-new-man" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Here's How Mia Thornton's Husband Gordon Became Her Ex (And All About Her New Man)/a/strong/p p/p pstronga data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/mia-thornton-and-gordon-divorce-incognito-ashley-darby-reacts" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/mia-thornton-and-gordon-divorce-incognito-ashley-darby-reacts" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/mia-thornton-and-gordon-divorce-incognito-ashley-darby-reacts" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Ashley Spills on Mia's Spilt From Gordon and Her New Boyfriend: "She’s on the Fast Track"/a/strong/p h2spanspanspanspanspanspanspanspanMia Thornton addresses her marriage issues with Gordon Thornton/spanbspan /span/b/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/h2 div data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="9bb00d5c-4f86-405a-82bf-b6e33054a631" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:862px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.bravotv.com/sites/bravo/files/styles/scale_862/public/2024/03/rhop-mia-thornton-gordon-thornton.jpg?itok=vULzlN4H" width="862" height="574" alt="Mia Thornton with her husband Gordon Thornton at therapy together." typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" Mia Thornton with her husband Gordon Thornton at therapy together during The Real Housewives of Potomac Season 8 Episode 17. /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Bravo /span /div /div /div /div pspanspanspanspanspanspanspanspanOne of the issues that has been a struggle in Mia and Gordon’s marriage is their current financial woes, which she has a data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/mia-thornton-makes-a-surprising-reveal-about-her-finances" 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about a variety of issues, including Gordon alleging Mia had an affair, Mia went on to note that her courage to leave stemmed from her being “tired” and the ill feeling of “losing" herself./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p div class="blog-post__faq" div class="faq--question" h2Who is Mia Thornton dating?/h2 /div div class="faq--answer" pIn the final moments of the episode, Mia reflected on her recent life adjustment of not having Gordon by her side and welcoming a new man into her life./p p“This life that I’m living is not really the life that God is intending for me,” she added. “Like, I need to follow my heart, and whatever happens, happens.”/p pIn case you missed it, Mia is now officially in aa href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/mia-thornton-new-boyfriend-instagram-official-tease-wedding" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"new relationship/a, and she revealed the exciting news to a href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/andy-cohen" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Andy Cohen/a in the Bravo Clubhouse, noting that she was “committed."/p pMia’s new lover is her former ex, and they first dated before she met her now estranged husband, Gordon. The guy in question is also a radio host based in Atlanta named Incognito./p pOn New Year’s Eve 2023, Miaa href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/mia-thornton-new-boyfriend-instagram-official-tease-wedding" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"soft-launched her new beau on Instagram/aby posting a photo of her legs wrapped around him in front of a car./p /div /div h2spanspanspanspanspanspanspanMia Thornton reveals when she knew she needed a divorce/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/h2 div data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="81282001-0361-426a-8fb4-4336a7870e3b" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:862px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.bravotv.com/sites/bravo/files/styles/scale_862/public/2024/03/mia-thornton-divorce.jpg?itok=T4UdpIOy" width="862" height="575" alt="Mia Thornton crying during an interview." typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" Mia crying during an interview in The Real Housewives of Potomac Season 8. /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Bravo /span /div /div /div /div pspanspanspanspanspanspanspanDuring a recent chat with ema data-entity-href="https://pagesix.com/2024/03/21/entertainment/rhop-mia-thornton-reveals-breaking-point-that-pushed-her-to-file-for-divorce-from-gordon/" data-entity-title="https://pagesix.com/2024/03/21/entertainment/rhop-mia-thornton-reveals-breaking-point-that-pushed-her-to-file-for-divorce-from-gordon/" href="https://pagesix.com/2024/03/21/entertainment/rhop-mia-thornton-reveals-breaking-point-that-pushed-her-to-file-for-divorce-from-gordon/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Page Six/a/em, Mia mentioned how her marital problems reached a point of no return after Gordon a href="https://www.tmz.com/2023/10/08/rhop-mia-thornton-estranged-husband-married-for-money-hall-pass-sex/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"spanspoke to the press/span/aspan, where he revealed personal details of their relationship./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p div data-embed-button="related_content" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:node.embed" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="084c92b2-9e65-4284-801b-fc704e81693d" data-langcode="en" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" class="embedded-entity"h2 class="headline" a class="embed-in-feed" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/mia-thornton-shares-new-info-divorce-gordon-thornton" Mia Thornton Reflects on the “Breaking Point” When She Wanted to Divorce Gordon /a /h2 /div pspanspanspanspanspanspanspanspan“I want to say my breaking point was when he publicly decided to shame me,” she told the news outlet about how his comments affected her./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p pspanspanspanspanspanspanspanspanMia also mentioned how she refrains from speaking negatively about Gordon since they share two kids: son Jeremiah and daughter Juliana./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p pspanspanspanspanspanspanspanspan“I’m trying to reel him in and we need to work together as a family," she said. "We have these beautiful babies that we’re raising and being a mom is No. 1 for me. And I’m very proud to hold that title of being Supermom."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p