Rose could not comprehend how and why wives would accept the actions and consequences of they"re cheating husbands. Hence the first part of her fortune that the voodoo priestess told her was to come true; her marriage was a very unhappy one. On the 10 April 1783 Rose delivered another child, a daughter named Hortense. The child was very weak and had to go to a wet nurse to be fed. Many children were often sent to wet nurses or a governess" even if they were not ill, because mothers did not want the burden of dealing with the children. Rose was different she was very upset at having to give up her child and went every day to visit her. .
Rose's marriage was not the one she had dreamed of so she finally asked Alexander for a separation but he denied her. Rose being bold and not one to condemn her self to a life she could not live with, took her worries to the court system. On 5 march 1785 after many exhausting trials and countless pleas the court ruled in her favor and granted Rose her separation under the condition that when Eugene turned five years of age he would be turned over to the custody of his father. Even though Rose was granted her separation she and Alexander were still introduced as husband and wife but did not live together.
Throughout the last few years of her marriage Rose had been receiving an education unlike other women in reading, writing, politics and much more. While learning everything Alexander sent her to learn she met a great number of people around Paris and Fountainebleau. Rose eventually became interested in politics and involved in the bloody French Revolution. Rose had returned home to Martinico to tend to her ailing father and sister and to manage the neglected household finances. Rarely would a woman be asked and trusted enough to handle household and plantation finances. While in Martinico, Alexander wrote to her and told her that he had decided to enter politics.