![]() ![]() ![]() But in her words, “It was too little too late.” I then posed a question to her to try to get her to think harder about it: “What would happen if, instead of it being too late, you went all in? A last-ditch effort maybe, but without any strings, expectations – just pure love for your husband and your child.” She was quiet and even seemed a little annoyed. When she told her husband she wanted a divorce, he suddenly started to do all the things she wanted him to do all along. Last week, during my field research, I met a woman (OK, it was my makeup lady at Ulta) who immediately started to describe her marital woes to me upon my telling her of my vocation. But there are times that I wonder if that divorce was necessary, or was it just easier? Usually, when a woman comes to me, they have already decided to divorce. This would make me a pretty “pro-divorce person.” I myself divorced once. In my experience as a Women’s Empowerment Coach, I help women navigate the emotional turmoil of divorce. This still begs the following question: “Why do women initiate divorce more than men?” In “Who Wants the Breakup? Gender and Breakup in Heterosexual Couples,” Professor Rosenfeld discovered that there was a difference between married and unmarried heterosexual couples when it came to who initiated the breakup: in cohabitating relationships, women instigated the breakup approximately 56% of the time. In 2015, Michael Rosenfeld, an associate professor of sociology at Stanford University, presented his findings that women initiate two-thirds of all divorces – a staggering 69% to be exact – at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. ![]()
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