Long before the Hollywood power couple Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver‘s Monday night announcement of their break-up, she was hinting about a split. In a video posted earlier this spring, Shriver said, “Like a lot of you, I’m in transition” and she later asked, “After you transitioned, what would you have wished you would have known?” On Mother’s Day, Shriver posted another video, talking about personal independence. “It got me thinking a lot of Lady Gaga and her mom and how her mom encouraged her, or must have encouraged her, to just be herself.” Sources tell us that Shriver and Schwarzenegger had been living “separate lives” for years, but postponed announcing the split because her father died in January and her mother died in August 2009. “It has been a difficult few years,” the source added.