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I think you mean one partner with the ability to leave the relationship
by nostrebored 7y ago
I think you mean one partner with the ability to leave the relationship
- michannne 7y agoYou don't suddenly become trapped in a relationship when you stop earning money yourself.
- nostrebored 7y agoYour barriers to leaving become much higher when you're staying at home, haven't worked in years, and have a family. Thinking otherwise is dense. I personally know people who are in relationships with horrendous people because they have no exit strategies. This is a common thing people talk about in stay at home circles.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- pdpi 7y agoThe reverse is also true: People not leaving stay-at-home spouses because they feel guilty about how vulnerable they'd be. It's just a messed up power dynamic in general.
- toasterlovin 7y agoThe math of leaving is the same, regardless of which parent initiates. Family income is split in half and then whichever parent gets majority custody gets additional money in the form of child support. People, men and women, get trapped in marriages. This happens because the economics of splitting one household income to pay for two households is brutal.
- Kaiyou 7y agoLeaving? What happened to "until death do us part"? Which is the context in which this kind of arrangement originated from. Apparently the deal has changed and all we can do is to pray that it won't change further...
- kaybe 7y agoThe deal also doesn't include abusing your spouse, but here we are..
- Kaiyou 7y agoIf you want to go farther back, only women were supposed to wear wedding rings, because it symbolizes the chains the men used to keep them,.. so I guess abuse was part of the arrangement, way way back.
- aetherspawn 7y agoIf you go farther back, there’s no record of a tradition of a wedding ring at all.