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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^wtf are you talking about? I’m 52 and have a career in STEM and all my female friends are lawyers, doctors, IT consultants, etc.

My mother worked too and told us to always have our own income.

There was no need to work given what the men make, but we all kept it because we liked what we did and wanted our own $/retirement and identity.[/quote]

+1 “These women” that came before are precisely the reason younger women have a seat at the table and the rights they do now.  What a bunch of ungrateful douches.[/quote]

You completely missed the point. Of course older women are educated and have careers.  My 84 y/o mom had me, her first, at 40 and has a PhD in organic chemistry.  I was talking about and replying to the PP who said that most of the women identify as wives only and their marriage is their entire soul, so it's understandable when they snap and kill the AP and themselves,  as there is nothing else important for them outside their marriage. This is unthinkable for someone 40 or younger.  If there are any women left who define themselves by their marital status only, they are older women, especially those who married young, like the wife in this story.  [/quote]

I’ve seen couples like this. In one case the wife got married very young to an older, more experienced man. They’ve been married for 25+ years but it’s been a rollercoaster. No kids, either. He is the reason she lives and she lets everyone on Facebook know that. Lots of “ooh look at us, the most wonderful loving couple.” He’s a cad, everyone knows it. Makes me think of that horrible story from last year about the Instagram camping couple, perfect online, a nightmare in real life.  Either she’s blissfully unaware or scared out of her mind of him leaving and having to go through a divorce. She once declared to me that she’d never divorce. I think it would be not only financially devastating but soul crushing because of her devotion not only to him but to the idea of marriage. Fir some people divorce is a major sign of personal failure they can’t live with. [/quote]

I’m 50.  A career, my own retirement, met my husband when we were both 25.  My identity is with my career and as a mother.  Those two things define me more than anything.  I’m a wife, and committed.  If we divorced, while I’d be sad since I love my husband, it would be foremost about who and what my kids would be exposed to and what it would do then to psychologically.  Me, I’d survive.  [/quote]

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