Question: How did Polly acheive her divorce?
About the article "How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life)", section "Cast and characters".

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Crosby pursued Mrs. Peabody and in May 1921, when she would not respond to his ardor, he threatened suicide if she did not marry him.
Dick Peabody was in and out of sanatoriums fighting alcoholism and acute depression several times.
Polly had become so afraid of him that she refused to stay alone with him, even appealing to her uncle, J. P. Morgan, Jr., for moral and financial support.
Crosby pestered Polly Peabody to tell her husband of their affair and to divorce him.
In May she revealed her adultery to Peabody, and without any resistance he offered her a divorce.
In June, she formally separated from her husband.
Her mother insisted that she stop seeing Crosby for six months, a condition she agreed to, and she left Boston for New York.
In December Peabody initiated the divorce and in February 1922, the divorce was finalized. 
How to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life) is an American sitcom created by Claudia Lonow that aired on ABC from April 3 to June 26, 2013.
The series was produced by 20th Century Fox Television and stars Sarah Chalke as Polly who—along with her daughter—ends up moving into her parents' house because of the financial crisis and her divorce.
On May 10, 2013, "How to Live with Your Parents" was canceled by ABC. 
Polly Baca met her future husband, Miguel Barragan, a Chicano activist and former priest, in the National Council of La Raza in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1968.
The marriage produced two children, Monica and Mike, before ending in divorce.
Polly has two sisters: Fernie, now a retired Dean from the University of Colorado and Bettie Baca, a consultant in Washington, DC. 
Polly begins narrating the novel just as she arrives in Greece.
She expects to be picked up by her Aunt and Uncle but they were detained and will not arrive in Greece for a few days.
Polly goes to her hotel and feels rather depressed about the current state of affairs.
But her mood improves when she meets Zachary Gray at the hotel restaurant.
He is quite interested in her and is attracted to her innocence.
He offers to take her around Greece and show her the sights.
Polly is reluctant but agrees.
Zachary is an interesting tour guide and Polly enjoys his companionship.
But when Zachary begins to show interest in a romantic and physical relationship, she resists.
When Polly's aunt and uncle show up, Zachary is unable to keep up his relationship with Polly but insists that they will see each other again.
During this time, Polly has been flashing back to the past and how she managed to get a trip to Greece.
About six months earlier, Polly was introduced to Max, a friend of her uncle.
Although Max is an adult and Polly is still a teenager, the two begin a friendship and Max encourages Polly to develop her identity.
Polly's friend Renny also encourages her and Polly blossoms.
When Max admits that she and her "friend" Ursula have been lovers for thirty years, Polly is surprised but decides this does not change who Max is and remains friends.
Max also admits she is dying, which devastates Polly.
But after one night of heavy drinking, Max makes what seems to be a sexual advance toward Polly.
Polly is horrified.
Ursula tries to assure Polly that Max loves her (Polly) as a daughter, not in any romantic sense but Polly is still terrified and runs away.
She stays with Renny.
While still vulnerable and scared, Polly and Renny sleep together.
Polly returns to her family and does not tell them about Max or Renny.
While she severs all contact with Max, she still accepts the trip to Greece.
In the present, Polly goes to a literary conference, held on Cyprus, where she is to volunteer.
Surrounded by new friends and interesting work, Polly begins to heal.
But Zachary suddenly appears and asks Polly to go out with him.
She reluctantly agrees.
The two go sailing on the ocean but an accident occurs and the two nearly drown.
They are saved by Polly's friends from the conference.
This event makes Polly realize that she needs to talk to Max, before it's too late.
She phones America and tells Max that she forgives her.
The line goes dead after a few minutes but Polly is satisfied because she and Max are friends once more. 
Max and her younger sister Minerva Allaire ("M.A.")
were raised at Beau Allaire, a plantation Max inherits through her mother's family.
Their mother dies when Max and M.A.
are young girls, and they grow up dominated by a ruthless, physically and emotionally abusive father who Max describes as a "lecherous old roue."
One night when Max is away, he attempts to rape M.A.. She manages to get away from him, but runs into the rain, catches pneumonia and dies in anguish.
Max never forgives him, but keeps his portrait in Beau Allaire's dining room to remind herself never to be like him.
As a young woman, Max marries Davin Tomassi, a colleague of Sandy Murry.
Max gives birth to a daughter who dies a few days later, breaking Max's heart.
Max and Tomassi divorce.
After a series of indiscriminate affairs, Max meets neurosurgeon Ursula Heschel, and they enter into a loving relationship.
In "A House Like a Lotus," they have been lovers and confidantes for more than 30 years.
Max is a successful painter, and some of her paintings are displayed in museums and private collections.
A collector of art, she displays works by Hogarth, Van Gogh, Pissarro, and Picasso in Beau Allaire.
One of her show pieces is a sculpture known as the Laughing Christ of Baki; this becomes Polly's favorite work, and she and Max talk about it often.
Max and Ursula, who usually live in New York City, have come home to Beau Allaire because of Max's urgent need for medical treatment.
On a trip to South America, Max contracted the fatal Netson's disease which kills by parasites invading the heart.
There is no cure.
A distant cousin of Max's is the world's leading specialist in this disease, and he is on the staff of M.A.
Horne Hospital, founded by her father after M.A.
's death.
In short, Max has come home to die.
Through Sandy Murry, Max meets Polly and they quickly become good friends.
Max, who loves Polly as the daughter she was unable to have, takes a keen interest in her intellectual and social development.
They spend many hours together at Beau Allaire, talking and reading.
Due to Max's mentoring and love, Polly blossoms both at school and in her social life.
But as Max's disease worsens, she has to resort to drinking alcohol to manage the pain.
One night when Polly is staying over at Beau Allaire, Max becomes intoxicated because of her pain and makes what some interpret as a sexual advance toward Polly.
Polly, traumatized, runs into the rain just as M.A.
did many years ago.
Max, trying to stop Polly and recalling M.A.
fleeing her father years before, sadly screams out to her father's portrait that she is just like him.
Despite Max's attempts to reach out to Polly and apologize, Polly refuses to speak to her until, during her stay in Cyprus, she is able to forgive Max, calls her, and they reconcile.