Anonymous wrote:For those who are calling Bill and Melinda elderly, I'm 55 and I'm fine with that. What I don't care for -- and think is sadly mistaken -- is assuming that people who are elderly don't want to have a relationship filled with love and caring and intimacy and fun. This past year has illuminated that for many people in their late 50s and up, even those of us who are long-married. While younger parents have had to focus on the challenges of working and child-rearing during the pandemic, we have been looking ahead and thinking about what we want the rest of our lives to look like.

In your 50s, as your kids start leaving home or even complete that transition, you have a lot of decisions and transitions to make. In addition, you go from attending funerals for your parents and their peers to attending funerals for your own peers. That is sobering and thought-provoking, and the pandemic has, of course, intensified this. I've seen quite a few couples who have decided they no longer wish to be married -- even people who have done a superficially great job of accumulating wealth and raising kids. The couples who have chosen to split are not as surprising to me as those who have chosen to stay together -- including some who were in the shoals for years. Personally, I have found new gratitude for my husband of nearly 30 years being in my life. One thing I've re-learned this year is that he's never boring. I hope he feels the same way about me.

Anonymous wrote:I call it a successful marriage and I am glad they will continue with their philanthropic work together. A divorce is not an end to the relationship, it is only the end of the marriage.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, this makes me sad. We know them. Not know them, know them, like besties, but we have many mutual friends and see them at events a few times a year. I am sorry to hear that they are divorcing. I wish them the best.

You don't know them at all. You sound like a creepy striver.

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Anonymous wrote:One thing I've always admired about Gates is that he doesn't seem to address or respond to criticism in any way. He just does his thing. More should live like that.

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Preach. He does him, done. Many could learn!

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Anonymous wrote:One thing I've always admired about Gates is that he doesn't seem to address or respond to criticism in any way. He just does his thing. More should live like that.

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Preach. He does him, done. Many could learn!

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Anonymous wrote:If Bill Gates is in any way caught up in Epstein parties, his career is done. Even if the women were of-legal-age.

He can't run the Gates Foundation - which does work on human trafficking - while also having a history of consorting with young prostitutes.

This divorce announcement feels like the lid is going to be blown off the pot.

I've heard through the consensual non-monogamy grapevine that Bill Gates is a bit of a freak. Maybe he'll feel free to be more honest about it now? If he can't afford to cop to his reality, who can?

Anonymous wrote:If Bill Gates is in any way caught up in Epstein parties, his career is done. Even if the women were of-legal-age.

He can't run the Gates Foundation - which does work on human trafficking - while also having a history of consorting with young prostitutes.

This divorce announcement feels like the lid is going to be blown off the pot.

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Anonymous wrote:He’s cold and distant. She wants romance and sex.

He will spend more time with his elderly ex.

She will have a boyfriend. If she’s smart, she won’t remarry.

Curious how the kids will turn out. The younger daughter is attractive.

You know, plain and ugly women turn out well and have good lives too. Every day, in fact.

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Two of the kids look like Dad. The third doesn’t. She’s attractive. I’m curious how all 3 turn out. They’ve been raised with everything. But their parents seem to be unusual. Dad vacationed each year with his ex? Dad met with Epstein multiple times. Mom went on numerous talk shows quietly complaining about not getting enough attention from her husband.

I’m wondering if he’s asexual or gay.

Or part frog.

Melinda looks like a man (hint).
Also, she's just plain ugly for either gender.

Watch out, the Zuckerberg's are next. Another one with unattractive wife.

Good grief. Both these women are smart and accomplished. Why are your writing such mean stuff?

Gates and Zuck are at least as unattractive as their wives.

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure it's just a coincidence the two richest guys in world history divorce within the last 12 months...

Anonymous wrote:One thing I've always admired about Gates is that he doesn't seem to address or respond to criticism in any way. He just does his thing. More should live like that.

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Anonymous wrote:He’s cold and distant. She wants romance and sex.

He will spend more time with his elderly ex.

She will have a boyfriend. If she’s smart, she won’t remarry.

Curious how the kids will turn out. The younger daughter is attractive.

You know, plain and ugly women turn out well and have good lives too. Every day, in fact.

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Two of the kids look like Dad. The third doesn’t. She’s attractive. I’m curious how all 3 turn out. They’ve been raised with everything. But their parents seem to be unusual. Dad vacationed each year with his ex? Dad met with Epstein multiple times. Mom went on numerous talk shows quietly complaining about not getting enough attention from her husband.

I’m wondering if he’s asexual or gay.

Or part frog.

Melinda looks like a man (hint).
Also, she's just plain ugly for either gender.

Watch out, the Zuckerberg's are next. Another one with unattractive wife.

Good grief. Both these women are smart and accomplished. Why are your writing such mean stuff?