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70% of Divorces Initiated by Women – Here Are the Results
Intellectual Takeout ^ | May 20, 2025 | Annie Holmquist

Posted on 05/21/2025 6:35:26 PM PDT by DoodleBob

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To: BarbM

“Not too hairy” - men can sometimes be taught to groom themselves if they are over abundant on the hair feature. Some of them may even welcome the information, though it should be delivered gently and in a friendly manner.

PS - One of my best friends met her husband on a Catholic dating website. Best decision she ever made.


61 posted on 05/21/2025 7:57:50 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Do go watch some Conservative black content creators on YouTube.

You imagine that you know/understand what you're talking about; however, you really do NOT!

You don't understand WHY so many black women act and vote the way they do, nor WHY some black men do. Some unwed mothers get money from the men with whom they have progeny AND welfare of every kind.

Welfare or none, it is part and parcel of a subculture that YOU aren't a part of.

Though many blacks are now Conservatives and TRUMPERS, the majority of GHETTO BLACKS and rappers are still on the DEM PLANTATION, that has done NOTHING at all for them.

Do you even know anything at all about the new BLACKS HAVING "BLACK FATIGUE"? I bet that you've NEVER even heard of that.

62 posted on 05/21/2025 7:58:57 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: linMcHlp

The quote, “The family is a small nation, and the more we have of these tiny nations functioning properly and refusing to break apart, the more we as a large nation are able to resist tyranny, government overreach, and other breaches of our freedom,” is attributed to Annie Holmquist. This statement appears in an article published by 1819 News, where Holmquist discusses the societal importance of strong families in maintaining broader national liberty and resisting government overreach.

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I always say: As goes the American Family; so goes America.


63 posted on 05/21/2025 7:59:58 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
For the majority of whites and Asians?

PROVE THAT!

64 posted on 05/21/2025 8:00:31 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: DoodleBob

Anybody here remember when All in the family kind of encouraged divorce. And then came Maude? Stuff like that crap encouraging women to hate men, ‘be independent’ what has that got them but to work a long hard work week and the kids are on their own.

Well some might think it’s a long time ago but that set the tone for what we have now.


65 posted on 05/21/2025 8:01:41 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: DoodleBob

I’m guessing you don’t see it this way, but those are probably the same exact reasons why men initiate divorce against their wives.


66 posted on 05/21/2025 8:02:19 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Jamestown1630
What a jaundiced notion of Holy Matrimony...

If it was Holy Matrimony, the state wouldn't be involved. It's a contract, one in which the state inserts itself as an unwelcome third partner.

67 posted on 05/21/2025 8:03:23 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: nopardons

This ghetto culture you speak of happened in one generation.

And it can be ended in one generation.

The illegitimacy rate for blacks in 1965 was 24%. Then The Great Society happened and by 2000 the rate was 70%.


68 posted on 05/21/2025 8:08:30 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
The illegitimacy rate for blacks in 1965 was 24%. Then The Great Society happened and by 2000 the rate was 70%.

And we can thank LBJ for that.

69 posted on 05/21/2025 8:10:39 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Beowulf9

I hated All in the Family AND Maude, but you’re right. Both of those set the tone for where we are now.


70 posted on 05/21/2025 8:14:20 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Great Society is just one of many reasons why LBJ was our worst president ever.

Worse than Obama and Biden.


71 posted on 05/21/2025 8:15:51 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I think this is the truth behind it all.


72 posted on 05/21/2025 8:16:22 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: MinorityRepublican

What America failed to recognize when Flip Wilson/Geraldine said “the devil made me do it,” is that God gave us free will.

Same thing with divorce. I understand Great Society, no-fault laws, etc. But blaming LBJ for divorce requires a repudiation of free will.


73 posted on 05/21/2025 8:16:49 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: DoodleBob
People are motivated by $$$. Uncle Sam offered people $$$ if they kicked out the father out of their homes.

Which is pretty much what happened.

74 posted on 05/21/2025 8:19:53 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Responsibility2nd
The Great Society is just one of many reasons why LBJ was our worst president ever.

Right up there with Woodrow Wilson.

75 posted on 05/21/2025 8:21:07 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: FamiliarFace

Oh, as I said at the top, I blame women AND men.

And yes those reasons apply to both camps.

I’m not a woman so I can’t speak for them. But men have a duty to…well…be men. That requires making tough decisions and taking tough action.

In divorce, that means fighting…fighting for family, love, and to live up to God’s will.

The exorcist Fr. Ripperger discusses the curse of Adam (irresponsibility & unwillingness to suffer) and the curse of Eve (desire to control husbands). Delving deeper…. https://robthefob.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-crisis-of-effeminacy-and-how-to.html

Effeminacy as defined by St. Thomas Aquinas is “an unwillingness to put aside one’s pleasure in order to pursue what is arduous (difficult).”

SLOTH is an aversion to what is hard
EFFEMINACY is an attachment to what is pleasurable.

One of the sins of Adam was inept joy. His lower appetite took delight in the fact that the fruit of the tree was pleasing. He knew the command not to eat (reason). If I am to do the right thing, I need to die to myself and not touch it. He allows the lower appetite to take control contrary to reason.

A supernatural gift before the Fall was INTEGRITY—the lower appetites were subject to reason. The appetites after the Fall gained a life of their own, and man ended up pursuing pleasure at the expense of reason.

A second problem in the Fall was that Eve eats the fruit, gives to Adam, essentially saying “take my lead” trying to take control. After the Fall, women get stuck with the problem of trying to control their husbands. This sets up a dynamic of the wife ruling the roost at home. Man just wants peace and does what she wants to attain it.

Adam for his part got stuck with the problem of not wanting to be separated from his wife. He chose the pleasure of being around his wife rather than listening to God and obeying his command. He ate the fruit, and rather than accept responsibility he half-blames his wife and half blames God.

Part of effeminacy is choosing the pleasure of not having to take responsibility for something. This is pandemic in most men today (avoiding taking a beating for doing wrong). Blaming his wife was another form of effeminacy.

If you are effeminate, your wife will never respect you or be happy with you. The God-ordered natural inclination for woman is to subordinate to right authority.

Our culture is TOO EASY, TOO SIMPLISTIC, and TOO PLEASURABLE for men. Most jobs are sitting at a computer rather than hard work. Technology brings us a pleasure in its use. It is a tool but if used to regularly, becomes a problem. Nonstop use of technology by boys today is softening them, overstimulating, and makes effeminate since they have no control of their appetites


76 posted on 05/21/2025 8:29:11 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: DIRTYSECRET

*snicker*


77 posted on 05/21/2025 8:41:14 PM PDT by Silentgypsy (In my defense, I was left unsupervised.)
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To: DoodleBob

1st wife divorced me. no real reason at all..

married to my 2nd wife for 35 yrs till she passed away this past march.

guess i married wrong the 1at time.


78 posted on 05/21/2025 8:49:03 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: DoodleBob

Interesting post. Thanks for your insights.


79 posted on 05/21/2025 8:53:45 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Responsibility2nd; DoodleBob

With LOTS of butter.

Yum!


80 posted on 05/21/2025 8:58:42 PM PDT by metmom ( He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.")
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