After 16 years together, almost six of them as a married couple, in 2014 the singer Jewel and her husband Ty Murray announced their divorce, or what Jewell called their "tender undoing." Jewel described it as an "enormous and heartbreaking step," but she also admitted the main reason for the divorce was personal growth. Here's how Jewel explained it:

The very thing that Ty and I sought in coming together is the very thing we seek in separating. We both value growth. And growth became tragically and undeniably stifled as a couple, and we believe we can find it again in setting each other free. We truly believe we can find greater happiness apart than together, and this is why we are taking the enormous and heartbreaking step of divorce.