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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do you feel that you are owed a $100k living? The average salary in this country is less than half that -- for people who work full-time. Most people will work all of their lives and never make close to that, including people with college degrees. [/quote]

In the example above, I would offer that Annie's closest colleague at the firm, also a woman and also her year, did stay to make partner in the Mergers and Acquisitions practice and is now, at age 60, earning more than $2 million/year.  Annie would feel, rightly, that she gave up a future earning $2 million/year, so that George could pursue his future potential (successfully) earning $5 million/year.  That is why she would feel that she is owed a very generous alimony.

As you yourself point out, most people in the U.S. make nowhere near that amount, and would thus not expect, or indeed be awarded, that particularly generous alimony.[/quote]

Still... people don't think spending your days in the spa, gym and country club is a huge sacrifice. She made her choice... family. [i]He made his choice ... money[/i][b].

It's a bummer... but there are decisions and consequences. Most people want their cake... but the cake is either eaten or stale.[/quote]

Note that he may not have made the choice of money if he felt that there was any negative consequence to the children and family - as in a detrimental impact to the children (after all he is a good father and not a callous man).  George made those career choices precisely because he knew that he could have his fresh cake and eat it too, i.e., he calculated correctly - thanks to Annie's hard work on behalf of the family and commitment to him - that the could pursue every possible career-enhancing opportunity, and the children and family would still not only be fine, but continue to thrive.  Someone had to make that possible for the family and children so that his calculation would work out.[/quote]

And Annie married a guy whose job let her live all over the world, extremely luxuriously, and have three kids who could go to private school. [/quote]

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