• Resistentialism@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Divorce her and take some of the money.

    Now I’m free to do whatever I want, and I get a hefty amount of money.

    I do not advocate for marrying and divorcing someone for lonely.

    Unless that person is a proper bellend, like Musk, Zuckerberg, whoever the hecks in charge of google. Bezos

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      1 year ago

      This reminds me of a story I saw some years ago on a subreddit, not sure if it was a revenge subreddit or MaliciousCompliance, of a slightly older man stocking shelves at a major supermarket. This older man seemed well-groomed, well-spoken, all that jazz, and he drove a Jaguar to work. So one day our OP asked for his story.

      Turns out the man, several years before, had a job in upper management at a Fortune 500 company, making easily six figures before bonuses. One day, he and his wife end up divorcing, and she demands 45% of his income, as well as the house. One of the lawyers manages to negotiate a different deal, where she gets 75% of his income, but he gets to keep the house. No number, no minima, just “75 percent of his income.”

      So when judge signs off on it, this old man quits his Fortune 500 job and takes a minimum wage job, stocking shelves at a supermarket.

      Of course, the ex-missus is pissed, now that her income has basically dried up, but there’s little she can do.