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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many of you are in your bubble and are thinking of Nannies and high earners and bs like that but that is not who we are talking about here.

Imagine an uneducated nail technician   cheating on her hardworking civil servant husband for years but stretches out the marriage to make it to the ten year mark  so she can get half of his pension (woohoo I won the lottery!) for eternity. She also gets “full custody” of the kids (=child support $) but decides to take that money and  run off to West Virginia with her new boyfriend, lots of vacations to Cancun and a giant new pickup truck while the courts require her to keep paying even as he raises the kids himself, pays for braces etc . Alternative scenario a lady used to being supported her whole married life is now divorced at 55 but does not feel like  getting an actual job so prefers  remaining “dependant” in spite the fact that it means her husband can never actually retire, as he will be Paying for the rest of time.

Yes I am a feminist but a lot of times really get the shitty end of the stick and usually it is men with fewer of course. [/quote]

How is a woman of 55 that spent almost all her career building years being a SAHM supposed to support herself on minimum wage since she has no skills to get any other kind of job? Coincidently society doesn’t believe we should raise minimum wage since only teenagers should be working those kinds of jobs so now what? She’s 10ish years from retirement, retirement benefits won’t pay crap no health care and supposed to afford living in any capacity on 7.25/hr. [/quote]

LOL. She has been retired for decades on the back of someone else, now that someone else needs to extend their time to retirement because getting a low wage job is beneath her? Half of the marital assets, 5-10 years of alimony and then fly baby fly! [/quote]

So no adult should ever be a SAHP then, correct? Those are your words, that is a worthless job and every adult should
Work. [/quote]

Do whatever you want, but own your choices.  If you decide to become dependent like a child, surrendering all your financial independence to your spouse, its a gamble.  And sometimes those choices have negative consequences.  
No one should be held hostage unable to retire at a sensible age because an ex-spouse thinks they are entitled to a lifetime of their earnings.  [/quote]

I work full time.  I would be disappointed if my daughter became a SAHP.  I really hope she maintains the ability to take care of herself and (potential) children should something happen with her (hypothetical) husband.

No young woman coming of age today should expect permanent alimony. It is rarely awarded and mothers should be teaching their daughters accordingly.  That all being said, the disdain for the work of raising children and building a home on this thread is disgusting.

At the time that some of these agreements were made, it was absolutely the expectation that your husband would take care of you, even in the case of divorce.  Women had less economic power and opportunities than they have today. How can the state of Florida insert itself into this agreement made in many cases decades before and insert today’s sentiments onto that agreement?

The women this is affecting absolutely “owned their choices”.  Like good girls, they married some guy with decent earning potential.  They kept the home fires burning.   Then came the divorce and a judge was convinced the economic state of the wife was such that she needed permanent alimony.  Then along comes the State of Florida, many years later, saying “too bad, so sad.”’  What about having those men who benefited from their ex-wife’s labor, and agreed to pay her, keep up their end of the bargain? Like maybe he should “own his choice”.  [/quote]

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