'It's Over': Readers Share The Moment They Knew

Was there a moment you knew your marriage was over? The split-second you saw the writing on the wall--even if you didn't acknowledge as much until later? We put the question to the Twitter-verse (hashtag:#themomentiknew), and collected our favorite responses below (and the most surprising--who knew bacon could figure in the demise of a lifelong union?)

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the moment I knew for real

<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Michael_Vana"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://i.huffpost.com/profiles/1329067-tiny.png?20101129073047" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Michael_Vana">Michael Vana</a>:<br />When she said that she would divorce me so my mother wont be able to see our son without her being there.
Michael Vana:
When she said that she would divorce me so my mother wont be able to see our son without her being there.

The Moment I Knew

<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/greilcook"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/greilcook">greilcook</a>:<br />

A Book Ended My Ten-Year Marriage

<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/dancinggrandma"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://i.huffpost.com/profiles/712887-tiny.png?20110306182117" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/dancinggrandma">dancinggrandma</a>:<br />My husband left for work and while he was gone, I read a book called "I'm OK; You're OK".  It described parent/child/adult styles of behaving.  When he came home, and from that time on, everything out of his mouth was "critical parent" to "naughty child" (me).  I asked for a divorce a few weeks later.  That book woke me up big time!

the moment I knew

<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/BitsyGem"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://graph.facebook.com/508938326/picture?type=square" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/BitsyGem">BitsyGem</a>:<br />

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