Jessey Anthony
2 min readDec 29, 2022

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Lol! Malcolm, now I understand where you heading at. So I won't go into arguments on why some marriages end in divorce. I do believe both parties play a role in keeping a home together.

However, blaming women as the reason for broken homes is a baised judgement. But you got one thing right. I do believe marriage ensalves woman. I do visit retired homes often and from my conversation and experiences with couples who stayed together till old age, the women are usually the ones who kept the marriage together with their sacrifices.

And you know what's more shocking, divorce rate is higher for people above 50. So your argument on divorce being a result of emotions and spontaneous decisions from women, that is not true.
You can read the stats below.

https://legaljobs.io/blog/divorce-rate-in-america/

These are the people who spent years building a life together only to end it because they were feed up.

The truth remains that a marriage stays when the woman is keeping the peace and enduring the odds. Men don't bear half the things women endure and the minute the women says 'enough is a enough'. Boom! Divorce happens. Then she is blamed for tearing her home like you said. While in reality, the marriage was cracking bit by bit, until it was unrepairable.

Why is she a damaged goods? Because the hit is down? Because she's no longer pretty? I couldn't help but read a lot of patriarchal ideology in your comments. And you wonder why more women are staying single? The fact the men like you expect the woman to be perfect before she considered a marriage material is why women are saying 'NO' to marriage and 'YES' to cohabitation.

As for who gets into a rebound once the marriage is broken, what does it matter? The best way to heal a broken heart is to move on. So whether is the man or woman, they both deserve to find happiness again.

You say more men are not into patriarchal culture, yet they still expect their wives to submit to them and be the perfect wives without doing same in return.

And no, I don't need to be a man to understand human emotions. If men knew how difficult submission is they won't expect women to be perfect in marriages.

On a second thought, men know how tough submission is that is why they see submission as an insult and a humiliation to masculinity. Because if more men were submitting to their wives, I doubt divorce rate will be as high as it is.

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Jessey Anthony
Jessey Anthony

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