re: #524 albusteve

I was a victim of domestic financial violence…twice…they don’t even have a folder for that one

I overheard a chilling conversation in a restaurant one time. A fifty-ish guy and a male companion were in a booth nearby, and he was bitching about the political issues of the day. His spiel turned to divorce. The system was stacked against men, he said. A divorced man has to watch his alimony and child support go up his ex-wife’s nose, while the kids suffer and the ex shakes him down for more. The ex doesn’t honor the visitation agreements. The father is probably labeled a child molester, to boot, if it furthers the mother’s case. And on and on. “A man’d be better off than divorcing if he would just take a rifle and shoot her! You’d be out in 20 years, your property and money would still be there, and that would be the end of it!”

That was years ago, yet I still remember it. I really hope that guy was just venting.