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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I will say that I know two women who are going through separations/divorces right now who previously did "nothing". I was shocked when I heard this because neither one of them has children. They're both in a position where they will have to generate their own incomes, and I think this is coming as a shock to them. One of them probably will go into personal training and will do very well at it, and the other wants to sell high-end luxury cars, though I'm not exactly sure how she plans on breaking into that. Their husbands, when they got married, didn't seem to have a problem with the arrangements and I think that both husbands could be described as workaholics. I don't think that they would have worked less if their wives were also working, though I think that their not being around contributed to the disintegration of their marriages.
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I like to think that people make their own position in life. Society influenced these women to never work and never have kids. Essentially, to live a pretty pampered life. They've, for a while, had no major responsibilities aside from getting the Jag washed and getting their hair done. I think it sucks that society has programmed anyone to think that this is acceptable. Men, women, children, whatever.
But that's karma. Some people really bust their asses and have nothing. Others bust their asses and get somewhere. For most of society, the era when you can just do nothing and sit by the pool all day is over. If some are realizing that later than others have, I sympathize, but I'm loosing a lot less sleep over that than I am the hungry, sick and dying here and around the world.
