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Posted on 06/25/2026 9:47:40 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Americans age 50 and older are getting divorced—with almost half of all broken marriages in recent years coming from aging Gen Xers and Baby Boomers.
Gray divorces doubled between 1990 and 2010, until they comprised about one in four of all divorces nationally...
And though divorce has been dropping in most age groups across America, it has not among people 50 years and older.
Michael Stutman, a top New York City divorce lawyer, thinks a “popular culture” shift around modern marriage expectations, coupled with staring down the barrel of mortality, could be playing a part.
“The thing about people who are over 50 is that they’re getting cognizant that the fuel gauge is starting to go down to empty,” Stutman told The Post.
“And there’s one thing money can’t buy, which is time.”
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if you have a woman I am sure she wishes you would already. You sound like a delight.
I know a guy that was married for 30+ years, then at 77, divorces her...goes back to DATING like he’s 30.
She took care of him in hospital and any time he needed her. He seems to be under the impression he’ll find somebody that will replace her dedication.
This. One hears of divorce papers but not as much about a divorce on paper.
...better the devil you know.
Same. I was 38 when I realized: I just don’t want to do this anymore. Not with anyone.
Same for my Grandma. She was 79 when Grandpa died, and she lived to be 94. She sold the farm, moved to town, started wearing pants (!!) bought a little go-cart to drive around the neighborhood in... I mean, she cared about him, but he'd been a drinker, and she was very straight-laced. She was appropriately subdued for 2-3 months after he died. But after that, it was pants and the go-cart, and all smiles. LOL! And she said she'd never, ever marry or "go with" a man again. And she didn't. Any of the old fellows in the community who expressed an interest were shot down with withering scorn.
And it makes the next one you want to hook up with how long will you hang around?.
“Experts have given a variety of explanations for this phenomenon — including longer lifespans, people marrying older, “empty nester” syndrome, and even wives being less tolerant of insensitive spouses after menopause.
I’m currently going through a divorce. We were married 36 years. Our daughter, who is married didn’t want kids. My son, at 31 came out as gay, so no grandchildren for my wife. Her business is failing after 25 years. She still cries at least once a week for her niece who killed herself in 2021. Apparently, I ate too much, drank too much, smoked week too much, took pills too much, lacked any motivation and was lazy. She didn’t trust me thinking I was cheating on her and hiding money, neither which was true. And she finished menopause in early 2025.
So one day in November of 2025, during a fight she said she didn’t want to live anymore, took the car and left. I called the police and they found her in a parking lot, but couldn’t do anything because she didn’t have a means on how she was going to kill herself.
Because I live in South Carolina, we have to wait a year of her not being in the house because we can officially put the final touches on the divorce. Mediation is next. I tried to have my mutual fund released so I can get all the gold and silver investments liquidated and her attorney said I cannot trade.
Meanwhile, her family circles the wagons and I am viewed as some monster who destroyed her life. Never threatened her, never laid a hand on her, never did anything so egregious that it would create an episode on Divorce Court. Just a vindictive family are are narcissists.
Thank god I was given my freedom from this.
Just celebrated our 30th anniversary of a happy, productive marriage.
This thread is disheartening and why boomers are a blight on society.
Me, me, me, me fkn me.
Oh. So it’s true. We cruise a lot but don’t recall ever seeing one.
Sometimes I surf in the website CruiseCritic.com and there can be some weird info posted.
I've only been on four cruises, and I think I only saw it twice. But then again, I also don't walk through all of the deck room hallways.
But my wife likes to put beach gnome magnets on our door, so I don't know what that says about us. It does make it easier to pick our door though.
I know people who divorced to survive financially. They still lived together even though divorced. They didn’t WANT to divorce.
That shining castle isn’t do sparkly anymore
Plenty to be sour about. I’m tired of crap and there is more than enough to go around these days and nobody does a thing about it. There is no kinder gentler way to deal with some of it so it woudl be best to get on with what is necessary.
Awesome. Another boomer bashing thread. Pass.
Supposedly at the Villages they have little signs on their golf carts that tell others that they are available and if they prefer girl or boy I think. STD capital of the country in the Villages.
In the Villages they invented to SOocial Security play.
He is getting $3200 mo SS benefit; she $0.
Divorced he gets $3200, she gets $1600.
What broke boomer would not do it?
I can posit on this topic. For a lot of these couples I bet the kids are just out of the house. Either graduated from college, or married. Once they’re not responsible for taking care of the “kids” anymore, a lot of people move on.
Mr. GG2 and I both had previous bad marriages. We will have 20 years in on July 27th and I don’t even know where the time has gone. Everyday is a happy day with us.
That being said, it’s a crying shame I can’t get out of this because of the economy. And age discrimination in hiring. If I could afford it, I’d be gone and much healthier
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