Contemplating Divorce

[univajeinerotta]

Greetings fellow citizens of Pelican Town!

I've recently picked the game back up after quite a few years of hardly playing it, and have actually made substantial progress, along with having great fun, but more on that another time.
I have arrived to the forums with a slightly less joyful topic, divorce.
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For the past few Stardew Valley years, and around 6 IRL years I have been happily married to Abigail, but recently, with time I feel as though something has changed.
I no longer feel all that I did for Abigail all those years ago, and therefore have been thinking about the possibility of divorce.
Just a moment ago I thought I had made up my mind, I would march into Lewis' house and fill the paperwork first thing in the morning, but... I couldn't bring myself to do it, not after the brief yet sweet and caring chat I had with Abigail as I was making my way outside.
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Although I don't really want to be married to Abigail anymore, I also just hate the idea of breaking her heart by divorcing her...
I am aware of the methods of "cleaning up" a former spouse's memory, but even that feels wrong on a moral level.
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Should I just metaphorically rip off the band-aid and let it happen?
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Edit: Brief afterthoughts I forgot to mention;
- I slightly feel as though I'd be letting myself from 6 years back down, I worked hard for this marriage, and now I'd just end it off, just like that, quite some "Till death do us part." amirite...
- Then again, I do feel like Sebastian's the better fit for Abigail anyways, always kind of felt like I was intruding into what they had going on, poor guy just sits on his computer all day, alone...

 

[Nonak]

I personally never divorce my spouses, but I marry a different one every playthrough
So in your situation I'd just create a new farm with a new person to marry in mind, but I understand that it would take a long time till you actually get to marry them, so if you really want it right now then divorce is your only option I think.

 

[univajeinerotta]

I personally never divorce my spouses, but I marry a different one every playthrough
So in your situation I'd just create a new farm with a new person to marry in mind, but I understand that it would take a long time till you actually get to marry them, so if you really want it right now then divorce is your only option I think.

I considered this, but knowing that I have 130+ hours on this save, I really would not want to start another until I have reached Perfection, that's the goal at least.

 

[Ereo]

I considered this, but knowing that I have 130+ hours on this save, I really would not want to start another until I have reached Perfection, that's the goal at least.

I believe if you divorce your spouse you need to wipe their memory and get their hearts back up to get perfection.

 

[univajeinerotta]

I believe if you divorce your spouse you need to wipe their memory and get their hearts back up to get perfection.

Ah yeah, I think that's correct, well... that's not a huge issue, thanks for the heads-up.

 

[Lucky Demos]

I believe if you divorce your spouse you need to wipe their memory and get their hearts back up to get perfection.

How do you wipe their memory

 

[mrxp]

How do you wipe their memory

use a microfiber cloth idk

 

[Gridball Pom Queen]

In one play through, I married and divorced the entire town. It was fun.
You can always remarry her again, later. If you really feel weird, just start a new game file.

 

[NextXander]

I only divorced once in one of my saves, and I wouldn't really want to do it again. It's sad

How do you wipe their memory

One of the shrines in the witch's house

 

[Jayamos]

I’ve been doing a lot of marrying and divorcing and memory wiping in one save, and, yeah, it is sad, and no, it does not feel moral, but I like the point where I can get their hearts back up to 8 and we can just be friends as we were always meant to be. So if you want to divorce Abigail and continue with the save, it doesn’t all have to be heartbreak.

 

[Lew Zealand]

Divorce and wipe memory since you have a lot of progress in this save. I don't know if there's a cooldown on the memory wipe but I'd do it the first thing the next day or it would eat me up inside. Like I was a giant snek that just ate a crocodile.

I really like the beginning part of the game so I like to start again with a new spouse, I'm up to 5 now! I also really like the middle part of the game so I tend to roleplay a lot of it after getting married. And I really like the end part of the game so I like to write about the situations that develop over the in-game years of roleplaying. It's a different story each time, fun!