Responses
I understand where you’re coming from, but he had it instilled from a young age that it was bad to like stuff like that, by both genders. He was probably thinking that if he told his wife that she would constantly repeated those words to him. The only other options would be to hide the stuff again which would cause the same problems. Throw the stuff away which would be like him throwing away a part of his personality, or divorce.
I feel like that the divorce could've been avoided if he had just been open about his interests in cute things. I understand that he had trauma in the past about being ridiculed for openly displaying his interests, but he had years to face those traumas. And rather than confronting them he decided to hide them from his wife. His wife only wanted transparency and honesty from him but he couldn't give that to just protect himself. It seems so petty and selfish to me to divorce over such a trivial thing.
Anyways, I'm diving too deep in this. The manga is cute and I'll keep reading it. ╮(￣▽￣)╭