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The Women Leaving Their Husbands After Watching Heated Rivalry
Elle ^ | Sept 2, 2026 | Brittany Kooienga

Posted on 09/08/2026 3:34:19 PM PDT by fwdude

It was Christmas Day when Annie decided she was going to leave her husband. There had been no blowout fight, no infidelity, not even a borderline offensively thoughtless Christmas gift. But Annie had seen something she couldn’t unsee. “Episode Six: The Cottage. That was the turning point,” says Annie, a 38-year-old teacher. “I remember just sitting there thinking, This is so far from my reality.”

Nine months after it aired in the U.S., where it averaged over 10.6 million viewers per episode, the influence of Heated Rivalry has only grown, so much so that it has begun to infiltrate a new and unexpected domain: divorce court. Over the last several months, dozens of women have taken to fan forums and social media to talk about how Jacob Tierney’s gay hockey romance inspired them to leave their husbands or long-term partners.

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Nope, "gay marriage" doesn't affect anyone else. No sirree.

“I remember just sitting there thinking, This is so far from my reality.”

Does this ninny realize that she is watching concocted FICTION designed to evoke feelings about non-reality?

1 posted on 09/08/2026 3:34:19 PM PDT by fwdude
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To: fwdude

Battlestar Galactica was so far from my experience at work….so I just retired.


2 posted on 09/08/2026 3:36:32 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: fwdude

Feelings, nothing more than feelings...

Morris Albert...and often times a woman’s brain.


3 posted on 09/08/2026 3:37:55 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: fwdude

Whenever I see the phrase, “my reality“, that is a clear indication. There is unlikely to be any rational discourse that can result from it.

Those kinds of people have “feelings“ and they view them as “their reality“.

In my experience, people who adopt that kind of viewpoint are detached from reality and living in a fantasy world.


4 posted on 09/08/2026 3:38:45 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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To: fwdude

Repeal XIX !!!


5 posted on 09/08/2026 3:39:23 PM PDT by A strike (fvckMI6 Drool Britannia & No more Dots)
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To: fwdude

OFFS! The exes will be better off. Fisiots.


6 posted on 09/08/2026 3:40:38 PM PDT by rktman (Patriotism not 'hateriotism' !. Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🇺🇸)
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To: fwdude

Why were normal women watching a “gay hockey romance” in the first place?


7 posted on 09/08/2026 3:41:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: fwdude

Men often get a very raw deal when it comes to child custody and financial settlements. Divorce can certainly make a man unhappy for those reasons. However, in general, what I have seen is that women overwhelmingly are the ones to file for divorce and in the aftermath the man often feels relief and a sense of peace, while the woman who started the whole thing is filled with regret and unhappiness because she threw away a good thing and ruined her life. I think this happens a lot.

Of course, horrible situations (ex. physical abuse) are a completely different story. But this article is basically, “I watched TV and then decided to divorce my husband.” I would bet good money that these women will quickly regret their decision. But the man is likely to be happier.


8 posted on 09/08/2026 3:43:50 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell warned us about Rivers of Blood. Well, I sure hope they're coming. It's the only fix.)
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To: fwdude

When this article came out last year, it caused quite a stir...

Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?

https://www.vogue.com/article/is-having-a-boyfriend-embarrassing-now


9 posted on 09/08/2026 3:44:18 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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Her husband is better off without this crazy b*tch.


10 posted on 09/08/2026 3:44:26 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Charlie Kirk's assassination / murder was our Fort Sumter moment. But only one side is fighting.)
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To: fwdude

WTF


11 posted on 09/08/2026 3:47:44 PM PDT by Equine1952 (MM1SS SASOBe)
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Well, it would have been better for them to left the husband’s at the altar, but this works.

Good riddance to these trashy harridans.


12 posted on 09/08/2026 3:50:51 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: fwdude

Wives watching fag shows need to leave.


13 posted on 09/08/2026 3:51:32 PM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911/June 14, 1944)
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She needs to see a real depiction of what queers do to each other. They are among the most violent households on the planet, and are rife with distrust and infidelity. Most of them have outside partners, mostly without the knowledge of their "committed" partner.

She should count herself fortunate where she is.

14 posted on 09/08/2026 3:51:41 PM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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“Why were normal women watching a “gay hockey romance” in the first place?”

For the same reason men watch hot lesbians on porno channels.


15 posted on 09/08/2026 3:51:53 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: MeanWestTexan

“Why were normal women watching a “gay hockey romance” in the first place?”

For the same reason men watch hot lesbians on porno channels.


Once again, it ain’t like in the movies. The reality is Paul Lynde getting it on with Charles Nelson Reilly.


16 posted on 09/08/2026 3:53:01 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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Male gay couples are actually the least violent. I didn’t believe it, but it’s true. (They are the most prone to infidelity and all sorts of other perversion.)

Lesbians, however, are the most violent. By far.


17 posted on 09/08/2026 3:53:33 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: fwdude

Psychologists have really done a number on the people of this country. They are pretended experts. Just charlatans, really. But they use their phony positions as “experts” to Foust these insane socio-sexual ideas on the populace. Many of whom are stupid enough to buy this psychology scam.


18 posted on 09/08/2026 3:54:24 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence." -Marx the Smarter (Groucho.))
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“my reality“

Yup. I think that is a core problem of society right now. Many people don't believe in the concept of "truth". They don't believe in "objective reality". For them, the only thing which is at all "real" would be their feelings. They feel the way they feel, and you are not allowed to tell them they are wrong. They win that argument just because in their reality, they are always right.

19 posted on 09/08/2026 3:55:14 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell warned us about Rivers of Blood. Well, I sure hope they're coming. It's the only fix.)
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True. I can’t say I’ve ever met an attractive lesbian IRL.

They are always massively fat with bad clothes and crew cuts (or blue hair or whatever).

That said, my best workover rig crew is “manned” by giant beastly lesbian roughnecks.


20 posted on 09/08/2026 3:55:58 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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