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The two camps offer different explanations for what went wrong and when. While Simpson's camp says that she was fed up with her husband's partying ways and his refusal to join her family in Texas for Thanksgiving, and that the pair decided to split after an argument the day before Thanksgiving, Lachey's side tells a different story.
One source close to Lachey says that following dinner with pals at an L.A. eatery on Nov. 22, Simpson blindsided her husband on the car ride home. "She said, 'I don't know if this is working. I want to file for divorce,'" says the source. "He was shocked. Nick was saying, 'There are things we can do to work on this, and isn't this worth fixing?' And the answer was no."
The next day, say several sources close to Lachey, Simpson asked if Lachey would still join her family in Texas. He refused, and the couple issued the statement confirming their split. "I know for a fact there wasn't one event that brought it about," says another source close to Lachey. "I think it was a general growing apart, as in most marriages. It's very rare that it's just one thing that causes people to break up. It's usually over time a slow growing apart."
