i'm fairly flexible on the details, but i was thinking she was someone he knew from college or maybe a longtime family friend that he reconnected with after he became a successful writer and moved to nyc. they would've gotten way serious pretty quickly and decided to get married after a few months of dating, maybe went on a long honeymoon and traveled around for a world for a while before settling back down at home and learning that being in a marriage actually takes a lot of work, and things kind of deteriorated until they got divorced a year and a half later. if you're interested, i can make you an ooc custom to figure stuff out!