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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see the E.P.L. behavior WAY more among men. I meet men all the time who left their families , but often it's for a "dream job", so it's more socially acceptable. Or for another (younger) woman, and the ex-wife is blamed for driving him to leave.

For some reason a woman leaving gets a lot more criticism. She didn't even have kids, right? So who cares? [/quote]
Yep, no kids. Leaving people you don’t want to be with is a kindness. [/quote]

Jeez, if no kids then who cares?  More people should get divorced if they aren't happy and there are no kids.  Why stay?[/quote]

Yes, she had no kids.

If this were a movie, I'd hazard the plot is that some guy out there had an ex-wife who left him after reading EPL (waaayy after its heyday, but it resonated with her), and now Every Woman Is Like Oprah. Is Oprah still even making television shows? Is her magazine still in production?

Regardless, if a person is going to leave a marriage, it's never because of one book, or one movie, or one conversation. These things can help give language to frame what is already happening, but they don't cause it. And if someone reads Betty Friedan's [i]The Feminine Mystique[/i] (1963) and finds a language for "the problem with no name" (maybe she is a young woman in fundamentalist Utah?) , it wouldn't be that Friedan caused her divorce. It would be the marriage that did that. [/quote]

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