AU women bleed men dry and then discard their husks in old age. Ain't feminism great?

[LJ_Reloaded]

Now THIS shit actually makes me nervous about the future. This ain't just happening in Australia.

My skies are clear today, but 10-20 years down the line? Who knows. I could be one of these dudes if I get nailed with a 70-30 split and then some sickness hits.

http://www.afr.com/business/health/few-attractions-for-older-divorced-men-20121026-jimsr

Yet it’s so easy to assume that a man who doesn’t shape up financially must be a loser. How often does it occur to women – myself included – that maybe we might have something to do with the plight of these older men?

Divorce is a growing hazard for older married men. The percentage of divorces involving men over 50 more than doubled between 1985 and 2010 – leaping from 11 to 22 per cent for men in their 50s and 4 to 10 per cent for men aged 60 and over.

A Family Court study by Pauline Presland and Helen Gluckstern in 1993 showed it was women who made the decision to leave in two-thirds of mature-aged marital separations. Australian National Union professor Matthew Gray, a former deputy director of the Australian Institute of Family Studies, says this is most likely still the case: “Research from around the world shows women make the decision in most, around two-thirds, marital separations." After a long working life of building up their financial security, many rightly grumpy older men end up losing 60 per cent to 70 per cent of the joint assets; homemaker wives or those on low incomes will often receive an extra 10 or 20 per cent above an even split because it’s assumed a high-earning man will gain more from future earnings.

But as prominent Sydney family law practitioner John Barkus says, this takes for granted that the man’s high income will continue.

 

[Hypoxia]

The obvious solution: Men should hook up with less-attractive women who make good money. They'll be happy for the attention and the guy needn't work very hard -- he can be a supportive drone. The executive wife syndrome works for executive husbands too. Just ask my bro-in-law, who bleeds his wife dry but she can't divorce him 'cause he'd get 50% of her considerable assets. Those Ozzies just don't know how to structure life. Feh.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Things were a hellava lot more simple back in the club and cave days.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

The obvious solution: Men should hook up with less-attractive women who make good money. They'll be happy for the attention and the guy needn't work very hard -- he can be a supportive drone. The executive wife syndrome works for executive husbands too. Just ask my bro-in-law, who bleeds his wife dry but she can't divorce him 'cause he'd get 50% of her considerable assets. Those Ozzies just don't know how to structure life. Feh.

Using women for their money is NOT the solution to this...

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

A ton of GBers on here claim to be fabulously rich.

Dudes, this shit could happen to you, none of us know what our wives will do ten years down the line. No one has a crystal ball.

You could be one of these guys, 70% of your money gone, your retirement attached, and your income suddenly cut off, all alone, and no woman wanting you because you're poor. The same women who got rich by divorcing their husbands.

Yeah, this one scares me because it could happen to me. But you're all fucking fools for thinking it can't happen to you. You might be riding high in your 30s and 40s now, but you can't predict what's going to happen a decade down the line, much less two.

If you have half the money you say you have, you should be fucking scared.