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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I admire all those with successful one earner marriages. But this scenario left me in different shoes after 15 years of marriage. I was running a huge household with $1mm income from several rental properties, exH with international travel and autistic son. Yes, as I stayed home, my exH income tripled and our rental properties were fully paid off. He never noticed or appreciated who gave him this freedom.
Instead, just before selling his company for millions, he asked for a divorce and told me I wanted to become a multi millioner at his expense. He cheated for years secretly with a co-worker and told me I was nobody and she was a world known expert. The lady had 2 kids and never stopped working. 
Just as I was hoping to get back to work, get a new degree to do something for myself after many years of hard unpaid home labor, I ended in a rush looking for ANY employment to hire a lawyer. My exH hid assets abroad.

Women - DO WORK! All these high earning husbands may be there with you for the rest of your life! [/quote]

Sadly, a similar situation happened to my MIL. My FIL made millions for years while she had to quit her job, as they moved around for his job. He left her in her late 50s for a much younger woman and she had to go back to work in her late 50s/early 60s and she's still working now. He retired and brags about how smart and successful his new wife is, which is pretty sick. He hid a ton of money and moved a lot of the assets to the mistress and also her grown children, so my MIL got some but not enough to maintain her standard of living from before the divorce. The alimony was short term and whatever she got sharply decreased after he retired.  [/quote]

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