re: When Believe All Women goes wrong. It's just a Girls Trip !

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i mean that's fine, if that's your assertion. yes, she is in a comparably worse position than when she was married. but that's a meaningless metric.

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How is it a meaningless metric? We’re (or at least I’m) talking about the consequences women suffer from divorcing. You have to be married to get divorced.

I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make, but if you’re trying to say that a divorced woman is financially better off than if she had never been married…then maybe? I would think the unmarried woman is more likely to have an established career and no kids so I’m not sure how you’re reaching this conclusion, but again, that’s not the point I’m making.

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i'm just saying that in regards to material possessions and wealth, things that can be objectively measured, she is going to come out way ahead in the majority of cases.

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I just think this is an odd way to look at it. Or maybe I’m just odd.

When you’re married, all of it is hers. All of it is yours too. When you divorce, you end up with half (or whatever the split is) of what you had previously. Both of you do.

Let’s say there is a house and a 401k under consideration. You both have a home and a retirement account. Now you divorce. One of you takes the house, one of you takes the 401k. The first person has to build a new retirement account and the second person has to get a new house. You’re both worse off.