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How I Demolished My Life: A home-improvement story [A Divorce Story]
The Atlantic ^ | December 28, 2021 | Honor Jones

Posted on 01/03/2022 11:46:20 AM PST by C19fan

had wanted, I thought, soapstone counters and a farmhouse sink. I had wanted an island and a breakfast nook and two narrow, vertical cabinets on either side of the stove; one could be for cutting boards and one could be for baking sheets. I followed a cabinetry company called Plain English on Instagram and screenshotted its pantries, which came in paint colors like Kipper and Boiled Egg. Plain English cost a fortune, but around a corner in the back of its New York showroom you could check out the budget version, called British Standard. But it cost a fortune too. I wished there was a budget British Standard. I wished there was a room behind that room, the cabinets getting flimsier and flimsier until a door opened and let me back into my own shitty American kitchen, just as it was.

My husband talked to the architect; my husband talked to the builder. And I kept paring the plans down, down, making them cheaper, making them simpler. I nixed the island and found a stainless-steel worktable at a restaurant-supply store online for $299. I started fantasizing about replacing the counters with two-by-fours on sawhorses and hanging the pots from nails on the wall. Slowly, I realized, I didn’t want this kitchen. Slowly, I realized, I didn’t want this life.

I didn’t want to renovate. I wanted to get divorced.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: divorce; feminism; marriage; mgtow; redpill; slutwalk
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To: C19fan

Stepford Men bump. ⬆


101 posted on 01/03/2022 6:23:24 PM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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To: chajin
Son, who is now coming up on 40, never married; it is a shame for him, but finding a woman who is truly willing to be a wife (as the Bible put it, a helper equal to him) is impossible in this century, and as much as it pains me to say it, he is wise to be as he is.

After watching what a shit-show their mother turned out to be, neither of my two sons will ever get married. Both have said so and both cited her as being the reason why.

They saw what I put up with until the day I put her out the door and couldn't take her nonsense anymore.

Best thing I ever did.

My advice to any young man even thinking about getting married: don't do it.

102 posted on 01/03/2022 6:29:16 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: C19fan
Getting Ahead Of Yourself Warning

Could be it wasn't the horrid wench at all.

I have attempted suicide two or three times after inadvertently re-subscribing to The Atlantic.

lol.

103 posted on 01/03/2022 6:33:48 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: ReaganGeneration2

Guilty, he’s lucky to have gotten out alive.


104 posted on 01/03/2022 7:22:42 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Mygirlsmom

Yep.

I’ve seen rats take better care of their kids.


105 posted on 01/03/2022 7:59:26 PM PST by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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To: MS.BEHAVIN

LOL!

When I was a kid there were no other kids to hang out with so I ran with the Dobermans.

Close enough.

/raised by sofa wolves


106 posted on 01/03/2022 8:00:51 PM PST by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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To: sitetest
" Looks like a tranny I once employed. About as ugly as he/she/it was. "

Next tranny to be featured on game show jepordy.

107 posted on 01/03/2022 8:23:46 PM PST by crazy scenario (The burden of Damascus is next!)
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To: Organic Panic

Men marry women expecting them to stay the same.

Women marry men expecting to change them.


108 posted on 01/04/2022 5:57:36 AM PST by BubbaBasher ("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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To: Albion Wilde

Feminism and no-fault divorce had such a destructive influence. My mother actually went to Mexico and got a divorce, that was back when you had to have a compelling reason in US courts to get one.


109 posted on 01/04/2022 6:01:08 AM PST by Atomic Vomit (http://www.cafepress.com/aroostookbeauty/358829)
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To: Atomic Vomit

No-fault is straight from the bowels of hell. Even Reagan was fooled—it was signed into law under his governorship of California, as was abortion. He was influenced by the company he kept as a young actor.


110 posted on 01/04/2022 8:22:47 AM PST by Albion Wilde (If science can’t be questioned, it’s not science anymore, it’s propaganda. --Aaron Rodgers)
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