Read the whole article and the divorce was a technicality IMO.
"She felt that I was holding her back from doing things. I said, "No, I don't want a divorce. Maybe we just need time." But she still moved out. I would ring her and ask her to come back but it didn't work."
Unable to cope with his crumbling marriage, Nael retreated to Amman, Jordan, to his parents' home where he continues to live with eight of his ten siblings.
He heard nothing from Elen for more than a year until late in 2002 when she made the call to tell him that she had met another man.