Image copyright PA Image caption Tini Owens has been refused a divorce by the family court and Court of Appeal 
 
 A woman who wants to divorce her husband on the grounds she is unhappy has lost her Supreme Court appeal. The courts can’t make Tini Owens love her husband | Suzanne Moore Read more 
 
 Five judges at the UK’s highest court unanimously upheld rulings by a family court and the court of appeal that Tini Owens, 68, must stay married to Hugh Owens, 80, despite her complaint that the marriage was loveless and had broken down. Mr Owens, 80, has refused to agree to a divorce and denied Mrs Owens' allegations about his behaviour. She must remain married to Mr Owens for the time being,” the supreme court judge Lord Wilson said in the majority ruling. Even spouses mutually seeking to end a marriage must, unless they have been living apart, assign blame and make often damaging allegations that lawyers say inflame potentially amicable proceedings. Tini and Hugh Owens married in 1978, lived together in Broadway, Worcestershire, and have two grownup children. Tini first consulted solicitors about a divorce in 2012, but despite her having an affair the couple continued to live together until February 2015. The original judge who heard the case found the marriage had broken down, but that Mrs Owens' examples were "flimsy and exaggerated". He said if their marriage had irretrievably broken down it was because she'd had an affair, or because she was "bored". The three appeal court judges said she had failed to establish, in the legal sense, that her marriage had irretrievably broken down, despite one saying she had reached her conclusion with “no enthusiasm whatsoever”. Supreme Court justices analysed rival legal arguments, which revolved around concepts of "unreasonable" behaviour and "fault", at a hearing in May and delivered a ruling on Wednesday. | Jo Edwards Read more 
 
 In a concurring judgment, his colleague Lady Hale said she found it “a very troubling case”, but that it was not for judges to change the law. Caroline Elliott, a partner at law firm Shakespeare Martineau, said: "England and Wales currently lag far behind other countries with their divorce laws and there is a strong mood for reform, which includes the introduction of 'no-fault' divorces." Grounds for divorce in England and Wales: 
 
 When you apply for a divorce you must prove your marriage has broken down and give one of the following five reasons: 
 
 Adultery 
 
 Unreasonable behaviour 
 
 Desertion 
 
 You have lived apart for more than two years and both agree to the divorce 
 
 You have lived apart for at least five years, even if your husband or wife disagrees 
 
 Source: Gov.UK
– "Till death do us part" may have sounded good to Tini Owens in 1978, but the British woman changed her mind on that timeline years ago and has been vying to end what she calls a "loveless," deteriorated marriage. But the UK's Supreme Court has dealt her a harsh blow, unanimously ruling that just because she's unhappy in the union doesn't mean she can end it, the Guardian reports. The 68-year-old has been mulling a divorce from 80-year-old husband Hugh Owens since 2012, claiming he has behaved unreasonably, but he refuses to agree to the split, saying that any issues in their marriage are because she had an affair or is simply "bored." Per the BBC, UK law decrees a divorce can only be granted without a spouse's OK in cases of adultery, desertion, or "unreasonable behavior"; if those aren't the case, a divorce will be granted only after the spouses live apart for five years. That means Tini Owens, who moved out of their shared home in February 2015, will have to wait until 2020 to sever all legal ties, unless Hugh Owens changes his mind. A family court judge turned down her divorce request in 2016, a decision that an appeals court panel agreed with last year. The Supreme Court judges say their decision was made with reluctance—one said she agreed to the ruling with "no enthusiasm whatsoever"—but that it's up to Parliament to change the law to allow no-fault divorces so people can get out of "wretchedly unhappy marriages." Tini Owens' lawyer says she's "devastated" by the ruling and "cannot move forward with her life." The Owenses have two adult children. (A Mississippi woman fled to Washington state to get her divorce.)