Why more Canadians are getting divorced later in life [Video]

When Marnie Wraith looked at her relationship and asked herself if good enough was enough for her, she knew she needed a change.

“I needed a recalibration of my life based just on my needs,” she told The Current host Matt Galloway. 

Wraith and her common-law partner met when she was 50, a few years after her first divorce. They bought a house in Meaford, Ont., and spent their free time travelling. She says they had a good eight years together, but she felt there was more life to experience.

“I was coasting and I felt that I wasn’t growing, and being almost 60, there were still more meaningful connections and adventures in life that I wasn’t going to get in my situation,” she said.

Wraith’s breakup is what some call a “grey divorce”, when people aged 50 and over split. Canada’s divorce rate hit a 50-year low in 2020 but the rate of grey …