Posted on 11/03/2022 4:53:11 AM PDT by C19fan
Some time ago, I was out walking when I saw a group of female ‘friends’ I’d met when I first moved to a small village in Oxfordshire.
We’d all been to each other’s social gatherings over the years. We’d done nursery school as co-parents.
We’d decorated the church, showed up at Christmas fetes, helped dress each other’s children in fancy dress for school parties. We’d bonded over the usual things — husbands, work, dogs, children. We’d done sponsored walks together and even been away for a weekend to a spa.
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His friends, her friends & our friends. If you allow your spouse to dominate the marital social life then their narrative will dominate after a breakup. Simple as that.
What she’s leaving out of the article probably would tell the tale.
I dont much about these folks but perhaps shes just being banished back to where she had came from?
Exactly, that reason for the divorce was a glaring hole in her story. The friends may have viewed it as cruel, cold, unjustified etc. They think she ruined the fun everyone was having as couples and don’t want her around now. No telling…
Bingo! That is almost always the krux of the problem. Especially when we're talking about political movements that are done with a passion (read: done religiously).
Almost anytime you see someone support such a movement with such fervor, look deeper and you'll almost always find a movement based first on denying God. Then with a God-sized void in their hearts, they try to fill that void with another passion even when it makes no sense. Basically, feminism was their new religion, just like today the new religions are racial hate towards whites (though not called that), sexual indoctrination of kids (though not called that), etc.
To win the long-term political battles we have to first win the larger spiritual battle. Otherwise at best we're always on defense as they relentlessly attempt to destroy our country pursuing one political religion after another.
People are entitled to all the misery they can heap on themselves in this life!
I have the same friends I had decades ago. Marriage, no marriage, divorce doesn’t matter. We’re friends because we have events and interests (that aren’t about family) in common.
And maybe that’s it, we almost never talk about our families. Personally I find that topic boring.
If the lady in the article spent her time with her “friends” talking about her family then they had nothing in common. No wonder the relationships ended when her marriage did.
She might not be invited because she has the children, which she only mentions once after the divorce.
When I terminated my facebook account, I lost over 200 friends. Nobody cared. Not even me.
Back on the dating scene about 6 years ago, I met a nice looking lady about my age. She shared her story about when she split with her husband (his choice) that all of their friends gravitated to him and still do. She said that none of them see her.
Before our meeting ended I didn’t have the heart to tell her that her personality and manner were slightly less exciting than watching paint dry.
Women are not going to bring a lonely, attractive divorced woman near their husbands.
It is occurring because she is dealing with other women.
Probably because she was hanging around with a group of fair weather friends.
“”Yup. Best deal ever. I was fortunate enough to see that 40 years ago. I will add that when you aren’t out slaving 40 hours a week, putting stress on the family, picking up take-out, and paying lots of taxes, there’s time for mom to be involved in your local school, local politics, various community concerns. I dare say if that had happened over the last 50 years, we wouldn’t have our schools full of homosexual communists programming our kids. Heck, they might even know how to read!””
You covered a lot of good stuff there.
Maybe she’s a shrew.
Who knows?
Soap opera kitsch for those so inclined.
Your ex-husband was probably cheating with someone in your social circle. They all know about it, and are too embarrassed to say anything.
“Women tend to talk about relationships and people. Men tend to talk about things or activities.”
Then there are geeks—who tend to talk about ideas.
;-)
“end to a friend”
Wowzers. That’s an eye opener right there.
Hope you’ve found some who have stuck with you, though.
Meanwhile, pay no attention to me as a re-evaluate my life choices...
Same here. Lot's of family too. Once you go off Facebook, you don't exist.
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