You must forgive the fact that I make quick decisions. I believe they are the only true and instinctively correct way for people such as I am to express their feelings. Because I have had a day almost entirely on my own–in bed–and able to think without interruption of our whole situation I have come to the conclusion—(a fearfully painful one) that a clean and absolute break is the only path to follow—So I intend to divorce you on the grounds of desertion–mental and physical–as soon as our present chores in the theatre and television are over–we are in any case separated. I did not want to do this until you had finished your work here but our telephone conversation tonight led me to think I was talking to a compete stranger–which is what you have chosen to become…Our lives will lie in quite different directions. I feel confident I should make my own life–and you have always made yours. –A letter Vivien Leigh wrote to Laurence Olivier, finally agreeing to divorce him, November 1958