Would we have had an affair, gotten together, left our spouses sooner?
They realize they are still in love and decide to leave their respective spouses and live together.
Two stories later, we find that they've left their respective spouses and married.
Men, and some women, immediately left their spouses saying they could whistle for their spousal maintenance/child support, as the government didn't care.
The novel ends with Todd and Sarah planning to leave their spouses.
Others are looking into leaving their spouses behind, sharing hotel rooms or taking other measures to cut costs.
They were married to others at the time, but left their spouses to be together.
They'd recently left their spouses and moved in together.
Often they have to leave their spouses behind and even children who might be in school.
(Both husband and wife had left their original spouses for each other during the late 1940s.)