How do you faithfully tell the story of a divorce, including your own?

That there are two sides to every story is cliché. That there are two stories to every marriage is almost science. Once known as “discrepant responses” in postwar North America, it was a phenomenon researchers could not figure out. Multiple studies conducted over the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s and ’60s all suffered from the same issue: Why was it that when husbands and wives were asked the same questions, they didn’t give the same answers?