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In the sleepy domesticated quiet of St. Charles County, where the ache of routine often outpaces the thrill of intimacy, Carla Robinson-Rainey has stepped forward, not in fury or fanfare, but with the solemn paperwork of endings. On September 25, 2025, she filed a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage against her husband of thirty years, Nathaniel B. Rainey III. Behind the legal formality lingers the unsaid exhaustion of a union that once promised permanence, but now—by her own petition—is declared “irretrievably broken.”

The couple, bound since July 29, 1995, has not yet physically parted ways, but, like so many marriages that decay inwardly before the doors slam shut, they have been “constructively separated” since October of 2023. Their three children, now grown and emancipated, are witnesses, perhaps unwilling, to the gradual unraveling of a shared domestic script.

Both have lived in Missouri for over five decades, and their mutual roots in St. Charles run deep. Yet even proximity, history, or habit could not serve as adhesive once the silence settled in. Carla, represented by attorney Kathryn L. Dudley of the law firm Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard P.C., makes no accusations and levels no dramatic charges. The filing instead reflects resignation—less a battle cry than a curtain call.

The petition seeks division of marital property and debts, acknowledgment of separate assets, and the legal stamp that their marriage, by all accounts, has reached its terminus. No maintenance agreements exist. No military entanglements complicate the exit. Just the bare, exhausted truth of a bond that no longer binds.

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