Posted on 11/03/2022 4:53:11 AM PDT by C19fan
Some time ago, I was out walking when I saw a group of female ‘friends’ I’d met when I first moved to a small village in Oxfordshire.
We’d all been to each other’s social gatherings over the years. We’d done nursery school as co-parents.
We’d decorated the church, showed up at Christmas fetes, helped dress each other’s children in fancy dress for school parties. We’d bonded over the usual things — husbands, work, dogs, children. We’d done sponsored walks together and even been away for a weekend to a spa.
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On the inverse side, the ex-husband is not being snubbed because women like having a back-up plan, and the possibility he is a Cavendish.
Keep those bitch lines open, gals. We’re all just dying to know.
I remember in 2nd grade asking my teacher how to spell FRIEND. She told me, and then added, “Remember, there’s always an END to a FRIEND.” I’m pretty sure my eyes got very big as I stared up at her, appalled. But I never forgot it, either the spelling, or the life lesson.
UK Daily Mail...the public psychiatrist’s couch.
She doesn’t say anything about why she and her ex got divorced. That could be a factor.
Women tend to talk about relationships and people. Men tend to talk about things or activities. If the divorced woman griped about her ex to their mutual friends I can see why the woman was less popular than her former husband. Especially if she was overtly or covertly trying to get her friends to take sides.
Feminism has hurt women a great deal.
Best deal ever for women was early marriage, no divorce, stay at home, raise the kids, cook meals, keep the house clean. You really can’t beat that deal.
But they threw it all away. Now they hate their jobs, they divorce their husband, they don’t get along with their kids, and their friends stab them in the back.
They only thing they have left is their confidence that their government loves them and will always protect them and care for them.
Sounds like she herself never had time for any uncoupled women when she was married. Or even direct female friendships at all. Should it be surprising that her social circle would practice the same for her?
“I guess she learned woman are ruthless if you are considered competition”
Women do NOT want an attractive divorced woman hanging around their men.
Maybe she’s a bore and not a likeable person? Maybe she cant keep things to herself? Just a guess...
You’re right. We forgot to mention the 1st step however:
They pushed faith in God out of their lives.
Been there. Move on. Make a new life. Pity parties are not productive.
I didn’t see why she divorced him. Maybe they thought you hurt him for no good reason and decided they didn’t like you.
Yup. Best deal ever. I was fortunate enough to see that 40 years ago. I will add that when you aren’t out slaving 40 hours a week, putting stress on the family, picking up take-out, and paying lots of taxes, there’s time for mom to be involved in your local school, local politics, various community concerns. I dare say if that had happened over the last 50 years, we wouldn’t have our schools full of homosexual communists programming our kids. Heck, they might even know how to read!
“Don’t try to understand women, women understand women and they hate each other.” – Al Bundy
I raised my 3 girls alone.
I would have killed for the opportunity to stay home, cook, clean, raise my kids.
Instead I had to do all that AND go to work.
Women, you are stupid for ever wanting to give that up.
I always think of this classic from Bill Engvall:
I was at the gym the other day working out with my buddy. My buddy Joey. And he goes “hey, man, I’m getting a divorce.”
I said “Wow, that sucks. Can you spot me?”
That was our whole conversation! So then I go home to my wife, and I say “Hey, Joey is getting a divorce.”
She goes “Oh, my God! What happened?”
“I dunno.”
“What do you mean you don’t know? Is she cheating on him, is he cheating on her?”
“Again, I’m not holding anything back here, I don’t know!”
She goes “Bill, someone tells you they’re getting a divorce and you don’t ask any questions?”
And I go “Well, that’s because he didn’t ask me a question!
He didn’t say ‘hey Bill, what do you think about me getting a divorce?’, he said, ‘I’m getting a divorce’, which said to me, ‘I require no further input on your part.’”
If he had said ‘What do you think about me getting a divorce?’, I’d have said, ‘Well, you’re gonna be dating again, so you should work on your abs’.
That’s a classic, for sure.
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