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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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To: Vermont Lt

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

but the real question was whether it drove you to suddenly seek a divorce ...


41 posted on 09/08/2026 5:00:48 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: ClearCase_guy

I recently saw a video of a woman who had divorced her husband and she was complaining that she couldn’t find a man to date who was financially stable and liked being around children.

The reason she divorced her husband was because he worked long hours during the week, and then spent the weekend at their children’s activities so she felt neglected.

Lady, you had what you say you wanted but threw it away. Children are young only once and then the opportunities to spend time with just you and your husband returns.


42 posted on 09/08/2026 5:02:47 PM PDT by CFW
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To: fwdude

Dudes are likely very fortunate if the woman self-exits. Do it early and recover with a better one, or stay solo and do even better,


43 posted on 09/08/2026 5:08:32 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: CFW

Satan is certainly alive and well.


44 posted on 09/08/2026 5:08:49 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: VictoryGal
Well, if they did manage to take it away, you should also not have to pay any more taxes, because "taxation without representation is tyranny."

Although I agree it's a dumb idea and a stupid thing to say.

45 posted on 09/08/2026 5:13:47 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: vpintheak

“...Screw all the future cat-lady bitches. And I sincerely mean that. These vile, wicked women will destroy lives over fictional BS that they’ll be “happy”...”

Yep. More and more men are so fricken’ done with American woke women that will sue em at the drop of a hat just for lookin’ at em.....
Instead, they’re going overseas for their future wives... Women that still love and desire the attention that a good man can give them..... The “cat ladies” can all go piss up a stump and die lonely.....


46 posted on 09/08/2026 5:18:17 PM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: MeanWestTexan

Not that I’m a lesbian porn officianado, but, no, not for the same reason.


47 posted on 09/08/2026 5:22:27 PM PDT by Merrick (It's a car - that runs on water, man!)
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To: catnipman

I think you missed the point.


48 posted on 09/08/2026 5:24:12 PM PDT by Merrick (It's a car - that runs on water, man!)
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To: VictoryGal

And I support your right. But like it or not, Nick Freitas has it right. God endowed us with unalienable rights - but it’s up to us to secure them. From a gendered standpoint, one gender is inherently capable of securing its rights and the other gender counts on the first to secure rights for them. Unless the gender breach is healed (by the predominantly offending gender) there’s only one inevitable outcome.


49 posted on 09/08/2026 5:28:30 PM PDT by Merrick (It's a car - that runs on water, man!)
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To: fwdude

Wome. Leaving Husbands after Watching Gay Porn


50 posted on 09/08/2026 5:30:07 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

51 posted on 09/08/2026 5:38:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills and jihadists anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: A strike

Pronto.


52 posted on 09/08/2026 5:39:00 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Vision

Right now.


53 posted on 09/08/2026 5:39:53 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Sad but true.


54 posted on 09/08/2026 5:40:14 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: fwdude

Exactly.


55 posted on 09/08/2026 5:40:45 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: BenLurkin

Japanese girls like to watch anime about gay male teen romances. It appeals to their romantic nature. I don’t know why grown-up women watch the gay hockey show. Maybe it’s a comedy or something?


56 posted on 09/08/2026 5:46:49 PM PDT by x
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To: fwdude

57 posted on 09/08/2026 5:51:14 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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For every man whose wife left after watching a TV show: you’re better off without her. Avoid AWFULs in particular and western women in general. If you can win the heart of a beautiful and family-oriented Asian woman (from Asia and not poisoned by western culture), you’ll find true happiness.


58 posted on 09/08/2026 5:57:49 PM PDT by Buck-Toothed Knuckle Dragger
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For every man whose wife left after watching a TV show: you’re better off without her. Avoid AWFULs in particular and western women in general. If you can win the heart of a beautiful and family-oriented Asian woman (from Asia and not poisoned by western culture), you’ll find true happiness.


59 posted on 09/08/2026 5:57:51 PM PDT by Buck-Toothed Knuckle Dragger
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To: ClearCase_guy
I agree. I'm hardly the only man who's ex-wife is the one who filed for divorce just to get away and have a different life (no infidelity, abuse, etc.). And the custody battle was awful, which after a few years I one (that part is unusual). And like with other divorced men, my ex-wife was obsessed with me after the divorce (more than she was when we were married). She made up excuses to call the police on me repeatedly, told lies about me to my church pals even though she moved hundreds of miles away and wouldn't see them again, called my boss and told him bad things even while she had custody for a few years and I was paying her child support (making no sense for her to mess up my income). LOL

She is the one who filed for divorce and moved out, so you'd think she'd be first to emotionally detach and move on. Yet she was obsessed with me, wanting to know if I had started dating again, if she had successfully broken my friendships in church, etc. When I eventually remarried, my ex-wife had to compete with me and marry someone she'd just met. LOL He had just got out of prison and is a main reason I got custody of the kids. LOL Years later even after the kids were grown and, therefore, our incomes no longer had an impact on child support calculation, she still wanted to know if my income had gone up, if my investment strategy was working now that she was no longer a drain on my budget, when I planned to retire, etc. Eventually my kids told her they were no longer going to be her private investigators. LOL

Meanwhile I'm quasi-retired in my 50's and plan to fully retire next year. LOL It's a pure Psalm 23:5 situation (she and her mother tried for years to destroy me, yet they realize that God has blessed me -- prepared a table before me in the presence of my enemies).

60 posted on 09/08/2026 6:19:33 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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