Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) — Hard economic times had kept Amy Derose and her husband Lawrence locked in an unhappy marriage for the sake of their engineering firm in Pompano Beach, Florida.
"The business was hanging on by a thread and we had to hang on," said Derose, 53, who had been married 35 years and worked as the business manager. "We couldn't afford to split. He needed me in the business and I needed him."
With Florida's economy and housing market recovering, "we are definitely on the upswing" and revenue is rising at their 24-employee company. That is allowing the couple to move forward with their divorce this month after years of showing up to work as if nothing were wrong personally. Now, she is looking for a job and "couldn't be happier."
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