![]() ![]() 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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