Why shaking your head? Why surprised?
She was the successful one, and when she got sick of her husband, she traded him in for a newer model. That’s all.
Successful men do it all the time. All the self-awareness this, self-actualization that, talk is just a smokescreen.
“... she traded him in for a newer model.”
Seems like she traded a 1987 Yugo for the 1988 version.