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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


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

what?

Her weird rant or my running with wolves joke?

She used an awful lot of words to self justify.
It was tedious and I got absolutely nothing from it.


61 posted on 01/03/2022 1:22:37 PM PST by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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To: SheepWhisperer

Crazy eyes.


62 posted on 01/03/2022 1:24:15 PM PST by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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To: C19fan

Lot’s of words; short version: self-absorption is a good way to ruin your life, as well as mess up the lives of those who would otherwise care about you.


63 posted on 01/03/2022 1:31:26 PM PST by Stosh
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To: struggle

“If my wife divorces me, I’m going to buy a sailboat and put my money overseas.”

I thought about that, then I realized the fishing boat I wanted to buy wouldn’t fit in the berth. I decided to keep the wife and it was a good choice. 30+ years later, she still won’t let me buy the fishing boat. Instead I can go fishing as often as I like. In 2018 I went twice and fished at the lake a few times. In 2019 I went once. Caught my limits on Red Snapper and Shark. Haven’t gone since. Think my wife knew something.


64 posted on 01/03/2022 1:34:28 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (If you are vaccinated, you cannot get COVID from someone who is not vaccinated. Lighted up Karen!)
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To: aspasia
I, I, I, I, etc.

The Solipsism and self absorption is off the freaking charts.

Detonate the family and somehow you are supposed to be lauded?

Imagine if a dude wrote this and how he detonated his family? Do you think it would get the same soft glove treatment?

65 posted on 01/03/2022 1:41:44 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Salamander

I used to run with the wolves-now I nap with the cats!


66 posted on 01/03/2022 1:45:00 PM PST by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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To: Obadiah

Vacuous does not even begin to describe this? This is what is going through her pointy head instead of raising her children.


67 posted on 01/03/2022 1:45:00 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: strider44

See you next Tuesday.


68 posted on 01/03/2022 1:45:36 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: ReaganGeneration2

Man jaw.


69 posted on 01/03/2022 1:47:06 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Obadiah

You nailed it. Leftists and “progressives” truly are a perverse, miserable, vacuous lot, aren’t they? Bored, infantile and immensely envious of those who are content. Most of them are willing to engage in the grossest and most destructive behaviors to “find” themselves. But sadly, in most cases there’s nothing to find, just a big, gaping hole in their souls lined with hatred of all that’s good and decent, constructive and time-tested. I truly despise fake women like this narcissistic bitch. Ugh.


70 posted on 01/03/2022 1:53:27 PM PST by Rocco DiPippo (I)
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To: simpson96
"I’ve noticed down through the years that, by and large, the fancier and more expensive the kitchen, the less the homeowners do any cooking in it. It’s for show."

Ya know something, as a former residential contractor I second your opinion.

Man, when it comes to my kitchen, my wife and I use the hell out of it. Nothing fancy, but designed and built by me for serious cooking without having to fuss about keeping things looking shiny and new like in a magazine.

71 posted on 01/03/2022 1:57:29 PM PST by Rocco DiPippo (I)
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To: C19fan

“And now finally my own winnowed, older body, which still feels foreign to me. I had been a house for my family, and now I was empty.”

Mid life crisis. She’s revolting against aging. She wants to be free again before she becomes sexually unattractive. Not complicated.


72 posted on 01/03/2022 1:59:16 PM PST by DeplorablePaul (s)
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To: mouse1
I knew a couple of women like that. They had beautiful families and husbands who adored them. And then decided something was missing, they wanted more. Selfish is the only way to describe them.

That was pretty much exactly the backstory of the '70s sitcom One Day at a Time. Married woman (played by Bonnie Franklin) decides one day that marriage isn't for her. No reason given, no explanation, she had "just chosen to be single."

This caused some tension between she and her ex-husband (played occasionally by Joseph Campanella); the angst was blamed on him as being a neanderthal male bumpkin who wasn't in tune with the times.

As far as feeling entitled to any kind of explanation, he was welcome to just go pound sand. The fact that he had any expectations whatsoever of such a thing was evidence of his atavistic phallocentric participation in the dominant male patriarchy, and therefore completely without merit.

73 posted on 01/03/2022 2:03:45 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: ReaganGeneration2

Guilty. Inside and out.

Although... I see her attitude around a LOT. This is why things fall apart.


74 posted on 01/03/2022 2:04:11 PM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Organic Panic
Yep. Every young man thinking of getting hitched should read this article to get a sense of how horribly selfish and self absorbed Western women are becoming. Might save a few young men a royal fleecing and years of financial impoverishment.

Took me three tries to get it right, but in the end I did. My current wife of ten years rolling doesn't give a crap about "stuff" or "finding" herself. She knows what's important in life and she knows exactly who she is. She treats me like the king I am, and I treat her like the queen she is. Real simple.

75 posted on 01/03/2022 2:06:07 PM PST by Rocco DiPippo (I)
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To: C19fan
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040613/
76 posted on 01/03/2022 2:07:23 PM PST by DFG
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To: Rocco DiPippo

I, I, I, me, me, me, my, my, my, etc. egocentrism to the max.


77 posted on 01/03/2022 2:13:55 PM PST by Rlsau1
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To: C19fan

A senior editor at the Atlantic. Her writing reminds me of soapstone countertops and farmhouse sinks. Trendy and ubiquitous.
Me, I’m in home improvement as a necessary adjunct to the flipping of residential property, it’s no substitute for the husband and children I’m still looking forward to. As for moving from PA to Brooklyn — turn around, Honor, you’re going the wrong way.


78 posted on 01/03/2022 2:17:45 PM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: KC_Conspirator
Imagine if a dude wrote this and how he detonated his family?

The author's "friend" posted her little essay on twitter, and it is being savaged. No one is stepping up to defend her. But yes, if it were a guy it would be worse.

A beautiful and moving essay

Of course, instead of destroying inanimate objects, she destroyed her family.

79 posted on 01/03/2022 2:24:24 PM PST by ETCM
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To: suthener
I knew a guy who joined the welder apprenticeship program in the company I used to work for. He was a lawyer. A bona fide, J.D. degreed, bar admitted, formerly practicing lawyer. I saw his J.D. diploma. He had gotten divorced and had to pay alimony based on his income. He said he was going to pay her as little as he possibly could and still support himself.

It's not just a meme: A few guys put pictures of themselves and their new wives or girlfriends on their alimony checks sent to their ex-wives:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/422281194125892/

80 posted on 01/03/2022 3:35:50 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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