Asked why she never divorced him, she said: "I adored Mick.
Dietrich had left her husband and small daughter in Berlin; she later collected the daughter, and although she never divorced her husband — he remained a friend, an adviser, and a dependent for decades — he did not interfere with her numberless affairs.
She never divorced her husband, preferring to live as the common-law wife of Dykins for the rest of her life.
Her estranged husband, whom she had never divorced and with whom she was still friendly, called her up at 3 a.m.
Because she'd never divorced Lavien, Alexander was considered illegitimate, a stigma that haunted him for the rest of his life, along with the myth that he was part black (which, as Ron Chernow writes, in "Alexander Hamilton," his juicy 2004 biography, "probably arose from the incontestable truth that many, if not most, illegitimate children in the West Indies bore mixed blood").
Though they lived apart from the mid-1940s, she and Barker never divorced.
Although he and his wife, Helen Kate Burtonneverever divorced, she has built a firewall between them; his monthly checks and his requests to see their two children — the lost Nate (Austin Lysy) and the fierce and fragile Erica (Mamie Gummer) — go unacknowledged.
His devoted wife, who died in 1999, declared she would never divorce him, but had thought of murder.
Caland and her husband never divorced, though she eventually lived with the Romanian sculptor George Apostu — from Paris, she would entreat her husband's mistresses to buy him flowers for his birthday.
Susan moved away from Omaha (where Buffett has lived for more than sixty years) in 1977, but the two of them remained close (and never divorced), and she helped to orchestrate his relationship with Astrid Menks, whom he married after she died.
They had seven children, five of whom survive her, as does Mr. Walker, from whom she was legally separated but never divorced.
