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[georgios100]

CNN had a blog about the issue... here is a few comments from Americans (men & women);

G. writes:
Try paying 50% of your income in child support, another 20% in taxes, and being threatened with jail and loss of your professional license if you don't pay. Then to top it off you won't get to see your children, because the court won't enforce visitation. See what that does to you emotionally.
Philip writes:
As a divorced man, I can honestly say I contemplated suicide for the first time in my life during the first year or two of my separation. It's incredibly difficult to have your entire family life – children, home and even wife – pulled away from you. Prior to the divorce, I was very happy, making a good salary and living in a nice neighborhood. Soon after the divorce, I was saddled with very high child support payments, debt from legal fees and barely enough left over to pay the rent of my small 1 bedroom apartment.
Martha writes:
It is a known fact that women have always been able to live alone much better than men. Simply put, women are built to survive being alone better because I believe we get less emotional support from men than they get from us.
Bob writes:
Divorce takes everything away from a man: money, family, self-esteem, etc. A divorced father of a daughter is treated like a potential child molester. No sleepovers at your house for your daughter's friends during her weekend visits with you. Despair sets in. You ask yourself in the quiet times by yourself, why not?
Rosemarie in Oregon writes:
Because the man loses everything: wife, children, money, friends and family who may have been close but now are distant. There is a lot involved in the loss of a marriage. This is like a death in your close family. Almost unbearable.
R.J. writes:
I divorced my wife last year after 30 years of a dead marriage. I tried all a man could try... Even my two teenagers chose to live with me full time. Some days the pain of missing my family – not her – is so great I just wish it was over. The kicker is, I am a professional counselor and help other people. I will go on, I will love and remarry I hope, but this was not how life was supposed to be, not when I tried so hard to make it work.

And some funny ones;
Once you listen to a woman bitching every day of life about everything and all of a sudden you are exposed to a life of serenity, the male body almost goes into a state of shock.

Men can't stand rejection. After the divorce they find it harder to pick up the pieces, remember Oscar in the odd couple?

Because most men lose their rear ends in a divorce, women still have theirs to flip around !!

Some guys will do anything to get out of paying alimony.

Georgios100

[CBBB]

Some guys will do anything to get out of paying alimony.

Georgios100

Like staying married?

[georgios100]

Some guys will do anything to get out of paying alimony.

Georgios100

Like staying married?

No, more like... killing themselves!!!
Georgios100

[Oracle]

Some guys will do anything to get out of paying alimony.

Georgios100

Like staying married?

Well said CBBB.

It's ridiculous that some men would prefer to not pay alimony and see their kids starve whilst they go off, usually to a floozy.

But of course, Georgios100 would rather we believed he was not only a gratuitous racist but also a sexist pig since he is a Turk trying to pass himself off as a GC.

[dinos]

Monetary solution = prenuptial agreement. It's better to decide how to work out a breakup when you care about each other, rather than leave it to a potentially acrimonious divorce.

If the other half wants nothing to do with a prenup, do not marry them.

[yialousa1971]

Because there is no-one left who can cook, clean the house or wash clothes

Your just what I wanted, when can you come?