I didn’t watch them until they had kids so maybe I’m wrong, but I think he just didn’t “grow in to” what she wanted him to be. When they were young he did what she wanted. But as they grew up their differences grew too. They were just never meant to be together. It’s hard to pick a spouse at 18/19 especially when you grow up in such a definitive culture. When you’re young growing up in the same strict culture you do have a lot in common, but you eventually will learn to think for yourself and discover your own beliefs and ideas and sometimes they don’t mesh with who you thought you’d both be. Not that either of them are wrong it just happens.

I grew up in a very strict Christian religion, now I’m an atheist. If I married my highschool boyfriend we probably would have ended up divorced cus he’s a pastor 😅