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In the stillness of separate states, a long marriage has met its quiet undoing. Margie Addison, a retired resident of Texas, has filed a petition for dissolution of marriage against her husband, Robert Addison, in the Circuit Court of St. Louis County on October 7, 2025. Their union, solemnized on July 25, 1992, in St. Louis, endured more than three decades before unraveling into distance and silence. Represented by attorneys Dan Haltenhof and Sarah Wehmer of Haltenhof Law Group, L.C., Margie’s filing speaks not of anger, but of inevitability.
The couple, both retired, separated nearly nine years ago in November 2016. There are no children from the marriage, no dependents left to shield from the echo of the final decree. Margie and Robert are each capable of providing for their own needs, and neither seeks maintenance. What remains to be decided is the division of what they built together—property and debts accumulated across the long stretch of shared years.
Her petition describes the marriage as “irretrievably broken,” with no hope of reconciliation. The words are simple, procedural even, but they carry the weight of an ending that began long before the papers were signed. The court will now decide how to fairly divide what’s left, as two lives—once interwoven by habit, memory, and time—begin their final separation, not through conflict, but through the slow, steady fade of what was once a life together.
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