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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are always two sides to any story and the storyteller rarely presents him or herself in poor light.[/quote]

Do you offer this same critique and skepticism when it is a woman telling her story?[/quote]

Hello?  Have you seen the thread where the woman declared that her DH was boring and she was getting a divorce?  People trashed her incessantly.  [/quote]

Some people challenged her - many others supported her.[/quote]

I supported the other OP. No one should be forced to stay in an unhappy marriage. This is the year 2013, not 1953. I also thought that many posters were bashing her because they hold up marriage to be some holy grail that can not be questioned, ever. I hate that sort of rigid thinking, and I always celebrate women who are brave enough to dream big and actually follow through on it - especially in Washington, DC.

But I think that this OP here sounds a little sketchy - esp. the fact that he's actually married to a criminal and then mentioned it later like it's an afterthought. And though I know it's now DCUM (and dads), this is a very strange place to come to bash a wife for not working after she spent four years in Asia with him.

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Fine as long as you would equally support and celebrate a man who left his wife because he found her boring, and would see him as being brave and willing to dream big and follow through. If that is how you view men and women who divorce because they have gotten bored then that is your prerogative.[/quote]

Yes, I would support that too. Everyone has the right to leave an unhappy marriage.

Now that women are earning more, they are initiating divorce more and more often. And like the OP, like it or not, their top reward is [b]"having their own self-identity."[/b]

http://www.aarp.org/relationships/love-sex/info-2004/divorce.html

"The majority of midlife divorces are initiated by women. Don't believe it? In the AARP survey, 66 percent of women reported that they asked for the divorce, compared with 41 percent of men. And men more often than women were caught off-guard by their divorce.."

"The perceived benefits of divorce differ by gender. Women were far more likely than men to say that having their own self-identity was a top reward....

.......43 percent of women said they emerged from the split against remarriage.

Only 33 percent of men said they wouldn't remarry."

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