Both stories left me hanging.

Both stories left me hanging.  I wanted "moving on" and "the Big Cat" to end on a clearly "happily ever after".

Moving on took our narrator at a rough time in her life, barely grieving the loss of her husband, ripped her out of her home, her life and her right to control her own destiny and force her to get married to someone who chose her.

I wanted "the Big Cat" to be very clear that after all of the roller coaster of choices made he was happy.  The end left me in a "you're damned if you do, damned if you don't" kind of vibe.  He was 50% miserable in his snoring marriage.   When they moved and relocated in for the benefit of their daughter he was even more miserable but I think she ended the marriage, not him.

He remarry's.  Even though the new wife is "different" and most importantly doesn't snore, he is still 50% miserable.  I guess she was only his "transitional marriage".  He was comfortable in a relationship and not necessarily "bad" at being a husband... but that was not enough to be happy.  At least not more than 50% happy.

Familiar and comfortable, I understand why he went back to his family but that didn't make it the best choice for him.  After all of the back and forth of two disruptive life altering divorces,

 I would've liked him being at least 80% happy.