Psychology Today has an article which found that women filed for divorce first 70% of the time. I had already made that same observation from our (my husband’s and mine) families. Our sisters were the ones who had left their marriages.
Not good.
Men know that, and have responded accordingly; they know they bear the risks.
While the news occasionally floats a story about a woman paying alimony to a former husband, those cases are few and far between; women aren’t much interested in men making less than them.
I think one reason young women are avoiding STEM fields (despite every effort to flood them with women) is that they can see what older unmarried women got from women’s lib: The ability to work, and be taxed, like a man until you die. Instead, they remain as schoolteachers and such so they can at least have an easy “part-time” life with full-time benefits and a great retirement plan.
Psychology Today has an article which found that women filed for divorce first 70% of the time. I had already made that same observation from our (my husband’s and mine) families. Our sisters were the ones who had left their marriages.
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Work in the field. In my experience women file most of the time, because women need more certainty in their lives than men do. Men can often happily doodle around separated and not divorced for years. As a matter of fact it is a plus to inoculate them from getting tangled in other relationships.
Women however are more black and white and need to know where things stand and have the legalities match up with the reality. So they file.