1.Tulsidas was extremely attached to his beautiful wife Ratnavali, who was a very intelligent and pious lady. He loved his wife and could never stand even a moment's separation from her. One day, he went out leaving his wife at home. When he returned he did not find his wife, she had gone to her father's place with her brother who visited them in the absence of Tulsi Das. This made him very sad and he was unable to bear the separation. He at once set out for his father-in-law's house. He walked a long distance in the dark through wind and rain, just to be with her. On the way he found that river Yamuna was swollen but he jumped into it. He mistakenly took a dead body for a log to cross the river. After successfully crossing it, he reached his father-law's home. It was late at night so all the doors were closed. Ratnavali's room was on the upper floor, he had to climb a rope in order to reach her room. Taking a serpent to be a thick rope, he slipped into his wife's room. Tulsidas told his wife that he had to walk a long distance and climb a rope to see her, expecting his wife to be delighted to see him. Instead, Ratnavali was shocked. She lighted a diya ( earthen lamp) to see the rope through which Tulsidas climbed and reached her room and was aghast to see a huge serpent hanging down instead of a rope. Shocked and embarrassed she told him that the "log" he caught hold of in the river was actually a dead body, and the "rope" he climbed onto her balcony was actually a huge serpent! Ratnavali scorned Tulsidas and implored him to focus his love not on her but on Rama. Tulsidas realized that in his mad love for his wife, he had indeed forsaken Lord Rama. He renounced family life and traveled all across north India, preaching the story of Sri Rama's life.
The story of Ratnavali is not only important for causing the consequent emergence of Tulsidas' Ramayana, but also for her remarks. This type of retort is not typical of Indian wives, at least not in the 16th century, from when this story has been recorded.
https://pr3rna.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/what-tulsidas-should-be-remembered-for/
2.Marriage and Renunciation
Tulsidas married a girl whose name was Ratnavali. We are told that the simple couple lived at Rajapur and that their only son, Tarak, died in infancy. Tulsidas was extremely devoted to his wife. This attachment may have been an inchoate form of bhakti"wrongly directed towards a human being"for it was this love, when freed from human attachment, that blossomed into an unbounded love for God. Once, qhwn his wife had started for her paternal home, an infatuated Tulsi rushed behind her at night, across the Yamuna. Upon reaching her, Tulsi was chided by his wife thus:
Had you for Sri Ram as much love as you have for my body of flesh and bones, you would have overcome the fear of existence.
An apparently simple and innocuous expression of annoyance brought about a conversion in Tulsidas's mind, which must have already been pure, well disposed, and awaiting the proper hint. Such inner volte-face is not an uncommon phenomenon; innumerable instances have been recorded in the lives of saints of all religions. Tulsidas renounced his house and wife and became a peripatetic monk. He travelled the length and breadth of India, visiting, as he went, the four dhamas and other holy places. Countless souls have been blessed and inspired by his peerless words, and many were raised to sublime heights of spirituality during these peregrinations.
http://www.hindupedia.com/en/Goswami_Tulsidas
I know both sources are similar to what cv's shown but I found this too-
3.Never got Married
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These words of Tulsidas Ji clearly affirm the fact that He never married. He was an ascetic right from childhood and did not marry ever in His life. The popular belief that He married a woman named Ratnavali is nothing more than a myth. In Hanumaan Baahuka too, Goswamiji affirms He's been an ascetic since childhood
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http://jagadgururambhadracharya.org/biography_of_tulsidas.php
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