Her-Fault Divorce

Unladylike

Unladylike Media

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Women initiate 70 PERCENT of divorces in husband-wife marriages. But why? Are no-fault divorce laws to thank/blame? Cristen digs through the legal history divorcing women, surprising stats and an old LIFE magazine to help explain the paradoxical and persistent relationship between women and divorce. Highlights include: faking affairs, mythbusting "too easy" divorce, America's hottest divorce colony, cooling off periods, and the 1980s "Divorce Wars." This episode originally aired in the Unladies Room Patreon. WANNA SHARE? Send voice memos, etc to [email protected] Follow Unladylike: Instagram | TikTok Contact Multitude Productions for ad rates, etc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Lady Life.
0:05.0	Lady Like.
0:08.0	A Lady Like.
0:11.0	A lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like
0:17.0	I've had a love.
0:22.0	This is un ladyie like, I'm Kristen, and divorces in the air.
0:27.0	Right?
0:32.0	Maybe it's just a hangover from 2023, the so-called year of divorce,
0:38.0	or maybe it's a J-Lo and Ben effect. Do they cast that long of a shadow? I don't know. Today's
0:47.0	episode though is one of my favorites from The Un Ladies Room, room Patreon one I have been wanting to bring to the whole group
0:56.8	chat because really when it comes to divorce there is just so much that we really don't talk about,
1:04.4	or we misunderstand or decontextualized,
1:07.9	and honestly, I just can't wait to hear back from y'all. January is the month when the most divorces are filed.
1:18.0	January is the month when the most divorces are filed and that's because during the holidays a lot of times people
1:27.3	be like either oh let's wait to get through the holidays or in their minds are like let me see if over the holidays my feelings change
1:37.8	new year new me and come January a lot of divorces are filed.
1:45.9	Although, of course, merely filing for divorce
1:49.5	does not mean that you are divorced, you then have to go through divorce proceedings and why am I
1:57.4	talking to you all about divorce well it is an inherently un-Ladylike topic of
2:01.8	course and also inherently on Ladylike topic, of course.
2:03.2	And also, as I was astonished to find over and over and over again
2:10.4	in my research, while the rates of divorce have changed both going up and going down,
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