| Re: Adultery versus Divorce |
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Group: alt.fan.ceciladams · Group Profile
Author: DanaDana Date: Jun 14, 2008 08:52
On Jun 14, 1:42 am, Mike Williams econym.demon.co.uk> wrote:> Wasn't it Greg Goss who wrote:
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>>QueBarbara gmail.com> wrote:>
>>>I know that I'm probably in the minority, but I disagree. I don't
>>>think that committing adultery is generational, or more common to one
>>>gender than another. I think it's based on selfishness.
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>>The question was not really about the adultery. The question was
>>about the assumption that the spouse was better off in a bad
>>relationship than being dumped.
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>>That one may well be generational. People under 45 or so take it as
>>obvious that women are competent adults who can run their own lives.
>>Many people from previous generations see women as dependent creatures
>>who must be sustained by a husband.
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> If you go back a generation earlier than that, then life actually was
> very difficult for a divorced working class woman, particularly one left
> with responsibility for the children.
But we were far from working class. Heck, I grew up in a house that
had both a formal and an informal dining room. Any alimony and child
support Dad would have been assigned to pay would certainly have put
us in the middle class, at any rate. I'd bet we could have done
reasonably well on the money he was spending on his sex life, since it
included keeping an apartment in the city, taking various women on
vacations, etc.
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