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[quote=Anonymous]The photos they chose to illustrate that story are so weird and kind of undermining their thesis. They are defining a "walkaway wife" as a woman who quietly suffers for years with a disinterested or selfish husband, and then one day files for divorce because she's had enough. Yet the photos include:

- A still from the 2025 television show The Four Seasons. The photo is of a character, Anne, who is indeed a long suffering wife to a somewhat self-involved husband. However, not only does she not divorce him, but it is revealed in the first episode that he is planning to divorce him even as she is planning a surprise vow renewal as an anniversary gift to him. She's like the opposite of a walkaway wife.

- A photo of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban. Yes Nicole filed for divorce from Urban, but it's not clear that she was either long suffering or that she was silent. Urban appears to now be in a relationship with a MUCH younger musician who is touring with him, which has raised rumors that he has been cheating on Kidman. It doesn't seem like the "walkaway wife" is normally someone leaving due to infidelity. Nicole could be a walkaway wife but it's not clear she is. They may be thinking of her hear because it seems like she was a walkaway wife from her marriage to Tom Cruise, which ended with there literally walking away in joy and relief in a very famous paparazzi photo taken outside the office where she signed her divorce papers. But that was Cruise, not Urban.

- A still from the TV series The Split, about a family of divorce lawyers and their personal lives. The photo is of the character Hannah, who does go through a divorce on the show. But it would be very inaccurate to call her a "walkaway wife" -- both people in her marriage are unhappy and dissatisfied, they both betray their spouse at various points in the relationship, and the divorce is not a blindside to Nathan.

I feel like these photos kind of illustrate the fact that the "walkaway wife" is a silly trope some writers is trying to make happen, but actually marital unhappiness at midlife, and divorce, are generally a bit more nuanced that a catchphrase.[/quote]

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