This is similar in scope to an earlier thread that folks in their 50's don't want to get married. Here is an article about how much married folks around 50 want to get divorced - and of course, it's almost always the wife who wants out.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203753704577255230471480276.html

a funny thing just happened.

right now my mother and i are in our "trying to half ass patch things up" phase of our cycyle of abuse. so we call each other every once in a while, usually once every 2 or so weeks just to check in with the other.

my mother is, what is this 2012... she will be 48 this year in august (yes i will be 30 before she is 50). anyway, she has had a BF on and off again for the last 2 years. great guy I like him a lot. anyway, she usually runs men off with her i don't need you it's my way or the high way attitude.

about a month ago they broke up. they got into it because he wouldn't do somethings he wanted him to do.

so i call her and i ask what's she's doing. she's going over his house to spend the night. so they kissed and made up. the older my mother is getting the more lieiant she is becoming and willing to forgive. living alone is a real possibility at 47.

no way in hell that happens even 5 years ago. i know her too well. she is just as stubborn as I am. but i suppose loneliness will make cowards of us all.

Dear MDJ,
Not one of your best finds....For more than 30 Years I supported a wife at home,for 23 years my second wife enjoyed having her meals cooked for her,her car purchased and maintained,regular long Overseas Holidays,even a cleaning Lady to do the dirty stuff....The verdict from my two daughters....I was repressive in making her stay at home,preventing her from "Self Actualisation"and achieving her true potential...A kick in the head that hurts more than the Physical one that unprovoked put me in Hospital and ended the career of another wannabee Goddess...I consider I was lucky to be placed in the position of being able to get her out of my own house and put a Restraining order on her that got rid of her for good...Many poor svods in a similar situation find themselves in Mens refuges...A humiliating end to years of hard work...What is not mentioned in the article is Menopause...The resultant depression in Svex drive upsets everyone...The little chore she did to keep the Peace seems too much when she sees other options.

Scaramouche said:

Dear MDJ,
Not one of your best finds....For more than 30 Years I supported a wife at home,for 23 years my second wife enjoyed having her meals cooked for her,her car purchased and maintained,regular long Overseas Holidays,even a cleaning Lady to do the dirty stuff....The verdict from my two daughters....I was repressive in making her stay at home,preventing her from "Self Actualisation"and achieving her true potential...A kick in the head that hurts more than the Physical one that unprovoked put me in Hospital and ended the career of another wannabee Goddess...I consider I was lucky to be placed in the position of being able to get her out of my own house and put a Restraining order on her that got rid of her for good...Many poor svods in a similar situation find themselves in Mens refuges...A humiliating end to years of hard work...What is not mentioned in the article is Menopause...The resultant depression in Svex drive upsets everyone...The little chore she did to keep the Peace seems too much when she sees other options.

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how is your ex doing now?

Why are so many 50-ish women wanting to divorce?

1. liberalism
2. feminism
3. erosion of family values (see #1 and #2)
4. pop culture terms/concepts such as "cougar" (and the glorification thereof)
5. the internet (chatrooms, forums)

Hi BackBreaker,
love your posts...."how is your ex doing now?"....well at first she went and lived in a Menage A Trois with two Lesbians...told my daughters she was having a ball,party every night...Then it seems that in the original pair,there was the Dominant one and the submissive one,she and the submissive one seemed to get on rather too well for the Butch one to handle,she turned on my Ex and threw her gear out on the Street (Tee-Hee)...The ex was apparently devastated,had some sort of nervous break down....She wrote a begging letter asking me to advance her some of her anticipated spoils in the Property Settlement,so she might buy a House...Because this was all done with the my Daughters being kept aware of her situation,I considered my relationship with the Girls meant more than petty Spite...I gave her the Dough...One daughter went and lived with her...OK she then embarked on a Hedonistic,merry-go-round of Guys but every time she got close to one it seemed the cad expected her to cook for him,fetch beers and enjoy sport on the Telly...She confided in one of the Girls that "they just want me for my body"whatever else she has to offer I never found out in 23 Years....So the daughter who lived with her,took up with a guy and I helped her buy a House so she moved out....Seems Mother then posed with the need for someone to Cook and Clean came round my place and evidently threatened suicide,unless the Daughter living with me came and helped her...Of course she went with her...I see a lot of her,as we are close,seems the latest is Mother being on medication for Depression,has bought a Caravan is going to travel around Australia for a year "To discover herself" What a heap of Dog Shvit!....What a shame it would be if the Poor Stupid Bvitch got eaten by a crocodile in Arnhem Land!