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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's common except the stuggle part.

The gray divorces I know (at least the women) are all financially secure and more than happy being single.

I think they ones that would face financial and emotion struggle are just white knuckling it and staying. [/quote]

- Women (often) get alimony and 50% of "marital assets", even if husband killed himself in big law while she was at the club (and au pair was shuttling the kids). Less provocatively, he was the primary earner in a stressful job while she enjoyed lower paying but more relaxed employment, yet...
- he loses half his net worth and -- critically -- retirement $$ at 60+, with little time to claw it back
- women are typically more social and have broader friend / support networks
- when good men marry, they (should) "grow up" and focus on family, and on work to provide for them. They lose track of partying friends and rely on work relationships that end at retirement. They may chat with their wife's friends' husbands, but that ends with divorce. 
- Today's culture says "you go girl! you don't need the no stinkin' patrimony"

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