loki said:
“Even discounting the financial loss of a divorce, I know my life outside work would dissolve. I don’t know how I could rebuild my life after investing so much of it in a spouse. I couldn’t even fathom meeting new people — who would have the time or confidence?”
I agree loki. A man’s world tends to get smaller after marriage. The woman will usually bring along her own society to a relationship and there is just not enough room for both, so we tend to take our places in her world and it becomes our world.
When the split occurs, she has just lost one member of her society. Plenty of others to console and support, etc., even help her plan the thing. The man, however has lost almost his entire world–other then a few colleagues from work who will lend a sympathetic ear, but who’d really rather just keep it light.
