I’m coming around on the whole divorce thing. When you’re a young single guy you love the visceral “fuck you“ of divorcing a cheating whore, but the more cases I see with my own eyes, the more I’m seeing divorce as a luxury no family can truly afford.
Sure, I still mostly side with dumping a cheater (about 60%, but that’s because of what it signifies in her character, and the issues I infer from that diff. from a knee-jerk revenge divorce), but if I have children with my wife, and a family formed, there’s a good chance I’d stick it out and stay under the same roof, maybe take a revenge mistress for a while at most.
The boomers were quick to divorce, and all my life I’ve been dealing with the fallout. I’ve never seen their lives get better with their second or third spouses, they were always more and more miserable, the family more and more broken with each new step-family. If I’m the patriarch of a big fam, I’ll feel a duty to keep the clan intact over acknowledging my own righteous desire for revenge. I’d keep her in the house and be diplomatic as possible and see if we can keep things intact, just for the sake of the kids, and eventual grandkids. It’s better than creating a “gramma Sorako” when I import a japanese woman to play house with, from what I’ve seen.
As a man, as a father, as a husband, I just won’t have the luxury of living for myself and putting my comfort first, and as much as I would feel entitled to divorcing, I doubt I could go through with it.
RT: https://poa.st/objects/986c2032-0048-457d-9f67-bbb80c8f1d3e