IrishZebra

Western Imperialist
Jun 18, 2006
23,327
That's why people shouldn't get married without preparing and working very hard before hand. :disagree:

It's not a gender thing either IMO, women use what power they can just like men when a 'fighting' divorce happens. Society and Biology give her the weapon of children. There is no worse behaviour to be honest.
 

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Kate

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Feb 7, 2011
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Without trying to be sexist in my thinking, I honestly don't know a single guy who has been through a messy divorce or whatever that got to the level of banning people's existence for life and holding intense grudges like that. I do know a few women who have.

Of course, guys can be complete assholes. But women can be too. Just that the guys don't seem to hold on to it longer ... they apparently either go murder-suicide or nothing.

So my small sample set supports a little of this.
Unfortunately in my experience this has been true as well.
 

Hængebøffer

Senior Member
Jun 4, 2009
25,185
Without trying to be sexist in my thinking, I honestly don't know a single guy who has been through a messy divorce or whatever that got to the level of banning people's existence for life and holding intense grudges like that. I do know a few women who have.

Of course, guys can be complete assholes. But women can be too. Just that the guys don't seem to hold on to it longer ... they apparently either go murder-suicide or nothing.

So my small sample set supports a little of this.
And as I said I've seen it go both ways in personal life and when I work.
 

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Diez
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Apr 14, 2005
70,839
Without trying to be sexist in my thinking, I honestly don't know a single guy who has been through a messy divorce or whatever that got to the level of banning people's existence for life and holding intense grudges like that. I do know a few women who have.

Of course, guys can be complete assholes. But women can be too. Just that the guys don't seem to hold on to it longer ... they apparently either go murder-suicide or nothing.

So my small sample set supports a little of this.

'dont be a girl about it'
 

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L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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I was reading an article in this week's New Yorker about a sort of epidemiology of domestic violence against women, and apparently the rule of psycho males is intense mortal danger for the first three months since break-off, slightly lower for the next 9 months after that, and then a precipitous drop a year or more out. So even in the most intensely psychotic cases, men tend to "get over it" a year later or so.

And here I'z got some wimmin friends who have banned friends and family members for life still for some inane crap they did 5+ years ago.
 

Fr3sh

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Jul 12, 2011
37,255
So I'm a volunteer for Red Cross Denmark. I visit a lonely soul once a week for a couple of hours. Just havin' a chat and a cup of Coffee.

The old man I'm currently appointed to, is the most warm and caring person I've met in a long time. So sad. He has 3 Children and 7 grandchildren. Yet see non of them. According to himself due to a nasty divorce from his ex-wives who made the children choose between him and her, and they choose her.

How can an entire family just leave a close relative like that behind? So sad.
That's just fucked up, inhuman and absolutely selfish. But :hi: , to having spent time with him.

Women are more stubborn in holding personal grudges for ages and making things become either me or them sitautions, so even if the granpa may be in the more wrong initially in that scenario, I'm not suprised it was isolation and total cut-off as the solution chosen by the grandma in this case. Seen enough similar scenarios by aunties/female cousins or friends who have the smallest arguments and turn the whole thing into years long feud of not talking/seeing eachother and trying to make others pick sides etc. Very rarely do I see the same approach with male acquantancies or relatives (if they dont like eachother they just avoid it eachother, not make a huge hoopla over it).
Happened to me a couple times too in my family, and I've just snapped at my cousin and told to leave the others out of it and deal with it on her own. She's never looked my way ever again, it's a shame really, just because I chose not to get involved into a small insignificant dispute about the choice of a car model between her and her husband (who happened to be a good friend of mine).
 

ALC

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Oct 28, 2010
46,540
I was reading an article in this week's New Yorker about a sort of epidemiology of domestic violence against women, and apparently the rule of psycho males is intense mortal danger for the first three months since break-off, slightly lower for the next 9 months after that, and then a precipitous drop a year or more out. So even in the most intensely psychotic cases, men tend to "get over it" a year later or so.

And here I'z got some wimmin friends who have banned friends and family members for life still for some inane crap they did 5+ years ago.
Like Rachel McAdams in The Vow?
 

Bisco

Senior Member
Nov 21, 2005
14,420
So I'm a volunteer for Red Cross Denmark. I visit a lonely soul once a week for a couple of hours. Just havin' a chat and a cup of Coffee.

The old man I'm currently appointed to, is the most warm and caring person I've met in a long time. So sad. He has 3 Children and 7 grandchildren. Yet see non of them. According to himself due to a nasty divorce from his ex-wives who made the children choose between him and her, and they choose her.

How can an entire family just leave a close relative like that behind? So sad.
one of my uncles is going through the same thing, women can be really evil when they dont get their way
i can accept that divorces can be nasty but lets be honest, how can a son and daughter just decide not to see one of parents is beyond me. i mean going by the story adonis mentioned thats pretty heart breaking and un fair. regardless of how nasty a divorce might be you ask about both yr parents and i think the children and grand children should be neutral. ok they might feel some resentment no probs but you ask about them and make sure they r fine even if you call once a month or so.

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So I'm a volunteer for Red Cross Denmark. I visit a lonely soul once a week for a couple of hours. Just havin' a chat and a cup of Coffee.

The old man I'm currently appointed to, is the most warm and caring person I've met in a long time. So sad. He has 3 Children and 7 grandchildren. Yet see non of them. According to himself due to a nasty divorce from his ex-wives who made the children choose between him and her, and they choose her.

How can an entire family just leave a close relative like that behind? So sad.
Like Rachel McAdams in The Vow?
the character she was playing is pretty un-grateful to be honest :agree:

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That's just fucked up, inhuman and absolutely selfish. But :hi: , to having spent time with him.



Happened to me a couple times too in my family, and I've just snapped at my cousin and told to leave the others out of it and deal with it on her own. She's never looked my way ever again, it's a shame really, just because I chose not to get involved into a small insignificant dispute about the choice of a car model between her and her husband (who happened to be a good friend of mine).

sadly my brother has this with my cousins!! and for what, bec they didn't pay condolences to him when my dad passed away. yes its not nice but you dont stop talking to them for a year or two despite the fact they keep apologizing non stop.
 

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