Oh, they will always do that unless there’s pre-nup; and vice versa (sometimes the woman has more assets, after all).
But I really DO see this often. Guys tend to spend WAY more money on collecting big ticket items that do maintain value. Women tend to spend money on clothing the kids, making the house look nice, etc...most women are not collectors of expensive things.
Then a divorce occurs and the guy thinks he should get to “keep his stuff” while the wife gets the used furniture...even though the money for both came out of the collective earnings and the value of the latter goes to basically “zero” once used.
It’s always fun when I write an appraisal on an $80,000 gun collection, to find that the other side has some handwritten notes from a friend/dealer of the husband that values the same collection at $10,000. Yea...right...LOL! These are the guys bitching like little girls about the women getting “half his stuff.”
Horse Hockey! Women are not collectors of "durable" things...I.e. Disposable. Nobody who has ever clothed a woman believes they don't collect expensive things. So after she's pissed away family assets on things that hold no lasting value, she gets to attack the assets he's collected because they're still worth something. That sounds about like the logic employed against men that they are rebelling against.