Summary: Many women end their marriages over small frustrations rather than serious issues. Often, they are influenced by friends or their own dissatisfaction without realizing their husband’s feelings.
It’s pretty clear that the wives are mostly ending the marriages over relatively petty dissatisfactions with life rather than abuse, infidelity, or anything particularly serious. (View Highlight)
Over the years, what began as an in-joke between my girlfriends built into a constant simmering resentment, further fuelled by their own stories of husbands not doing their fair share. (View Highlight)
One thing that is clear from the woman’s account is that once she crossed the red line, external forces in the form of other women living vicariously through her tended to push her further along the path on which she’d set herself than she had ever intended. (View Highlight)
like less-attractive friends encouraging their prettier friend to cut her hair, many women will encourage a dissatisfied wife to blow up her marriage. (View Highlight)
don’t necessarily take what a woman says too seriously, especially in moments of high emotion. (View Highlight)
there is no need to rush things or match emotion for emotion. (View Highlight)
No matter how nice she is, sooner or later her emotions will get the better of her and she will focus her ire on the nearest and safest available target, her husband. (View Highlight)
My Opinion
The article makes generalizations based on anecdotal evidence. There are millions of people on earth. Just based on numbers, every couple can find someone better than their spouse. Just because some people regret leaving and want to get back to their ex, doesn’t mean most other people do.
It seems a bit one-sided, places a lot of blame on the women, doesn’t give credit to complexities of marriage, challenges of modern life, expectation of emotional fulfillment, etc.