Tips for starting the seperation conversation?

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I am decided that I want to seperate from my DH with a view to divorce. Nothing is majorly wrong, but I feel our relationship has run it's course, I'm not happy any more and I don't want to save it.

It will likely come as a shock to my DH and I know he might be unreasonable with me, so I'm asking for tips on how to approach the conversation without making him angry?

Once I get it out in the open I think I can handle the conversation from there but it's just getting the ball rolling that I'm struggling with.

Tricky one to be honest.

How do you normally broach difficult conversations with him?

He asked why I was being "snappy". So I just blurted it out.

I had one night of complete bliss as a result of having said it, because he was a horrible, unreasonable, abusive man, and I was so happy that it was out in the open.

It was followed by four years of Hell, but at least I no longer had to live with him.

We've never really had a big scary conversation tbh. Not a calm one, only an argument. I just want to it be calm & clear but I don't know how he's going to react.