Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and wife Chirlane McCray are separating after 29 years of marriage.

The couple announced the news Wednesday (July 5), but provided an interesting update: they will date other people without living apart or getting divorced.

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“I just want to have fun,” she told the New York Times in a joint interview announcing the split.

The couple says the decision came during a conversation at home about two months ago about why they were not “lovey-dovey anymore.”

They also admitted the relationship was falling apart amid the then-mayor’s 2020 run for the White House.

“I thought it was a distraction,” she said, adding that she only stood by him at the time because the presidential run was “not the kind of thing where you can break ranks … That’s part of the difficulty of being part of a package.”

Bill admitted that calling the run a distraction is “kind of true.”

“Point for Chirlane,” he added.

“Everything was this overwhelming schedule, this sort of series of tasks,” he said of being the NYC Mayor, adding “that kind of took away a little bit of our soul.”

“How can you be a couple in the fullness of what you tend to think … when you’ve got this responsibility on your shoulders and you don’t want to add to that?” she said of supporting her husband.

“There’s a certain weight … that goes with being with Mr. Mayor.”

They plan to remain sharing their Brooklyn home together.

There have been several surprising split announcements in recent days.