My wife and I have been together over 40 years and I can’t imagine life without her. This is number two for both of us. We both made mistakes early on in our lives and had we not corrected things I’m sure we both would have lived miserable lives as well as our previous spouses.
A great story. The author's states, "The ability to divorce regardless of what the other party wants is the essence of no-fault divorce." I think it's just as important to see no fault divorce as the ability of a couple to divorce regardless of what the State wants.
Marriage is the only binding legal contract I can think of that people routinely enter into without having the benefit of terms and legal jurisdiction that endure with their marriage.
It's all about control, just like with the overturning of Roe plain and simple. Nothing is more fragile to a "conservative" man's ego than women's rights.
Exactly. The entire point is trapping women in a living situation they don’t want to be in. Notice how the article only focuses on women leaving because they fell out of love, not because they felt unsafe or were being used as servants by narcissistic partners, which is far more common.
Whenever they talk about rolling back our rights, women’s choices are always framed and dismissed as petty, selfish whims, thoroughly unserious. But more often than not, we’re making these choices to save our lives or protect our kids. No fault divorce is a lifeline, we have to fight for it.
Marriage is a fiduciary relationaship and why I asked my bestie to marry me (we aren’t in love and not gay but why shouldn’t she share my benefits in retirement, she’s been there for me my whole life?). She declined.
Any other take is female enslavement and rests on our history of women as property
Misogynists do not see women as people, which is why they balk at the idea of equality. To them, women are things to own and use, only people (men) get rights, so equality is like advocating for your car’s right to decide if it wants to stay with you and let you drive it.
I think the government should just get out of the marriage business. It’s too tied up with religious sacraments. If people want to wave a willow wand and say they are soul bonded until the next planetary conjunction: you do you, but the force and oversight of the state should stay out of it
Comments
Any other take is female enslavement and rests on our history of women as property
When a political party wants that, it's a very bad sign.
(Fun fact: then-governor Ronald Reagan signed the first no-fault divorce legislation into law, in California.)