She was there when he was nothing. Helped him build it, raised the children, gave him unbelievable support when I’m sure he had none. She deserves it
Going to have to disagree. Yes, she was there. Yes, she raised the kids. What no one will ever know, is what kind of partner she actually was. Assuming that they were together that long, it's likely she was at least decent.
However, only the two of them will truly know what their relationship was like. Probably, he got caught in the p*ssy trap by the other woman. Hey, he's a billionaire though, women must throw themselves at him all the time, how has he stayed away that long?
Also, she didn't have anything more than a perfunctory role in the actual business. He didn't need to have kids or be married to have this business. You might even argue that this held him back to some degree. Not saying that anyone forced him to have kids but having kids means you have to be there in some physical and emotional capacity. That takes time, time that could be used on the business. If he wanted and/or consented to having kids, that is expected I know but in another environment where he didn't have kids, he could have possibly achieved his business goals sooner.
Being a wife and mother is not worth 36 billion, period. A billion even? Ok, I think that is a good payout to a wife and mother of your children. She and the kids would certainly never go hungry or want for anything. But to kneecap him like that for simply getting married and having kids, that's wrong.
This is also an advertisement to other women who are not "happy" in their relationship. You go girl, get yours girl, sisterhood of the traveling pants, girl power, crap like that is what is being offered here with all of these articles on the dissolution of their marriage. He leaves the toilet seat up? Divorce him, you get half you know. He snores too loudly at night? Divorce him, oh, by the way, you know you get spousal support and child support right?
I wonder how long marriages like these would last if the woman (and in some cases, the man, Kevin Federline, I'm talking to you here) knew that she wasn't going to hit the lottery by leaving and would work towards keeping the marriage fresh. Guarantee, absolutely guarantee, that she didn't put anywhere near the same level of work on the marriage after the kids and/or after the business started to take off. They've been married this long most likely because he refused to give up. He finally probably got fed up with the lack of attention, lack of respect and lack of sex and went out and got some on the side. Just a supposition but I'm telling you, this smacks of a lazy woman acting like a jaded cop waiting to get her pension.
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