Redditors who have actually won $X per week/month/year for life, how did you win it and how's that going for you?

No. Fear of losing half of my shit and becoming an ATM. Divorce laws in this country are incredibly lopsided right now. There's a sobering documentary called Divorce, Inc., I believe... something like that. Its a little biased, but the points made are still valid ones.

Marriage used to be a reasonable contract between a man and woman - you give me food and shelter and I'll give you babies and access to sex. Somewhere long the line, there was a mass convergence of ideas. If I had to pin down a selection of "root causes", I'd say it was Disney movies (early ones) - emphasized marrying for "love" and waiting for "Mr. Right", the Second Wave Feminist movement (not Women's Lib, which was arguably necessary, and achieved all its goals), and the introduction of birth control. There are likely more social factors, but I feel like these are a huge three.

Many of the laws and penalties of divorce were meant to punish the husband - and rightfully so - for fucking up a marriage. Unfortunately, we live in a different world than we did 60 years ago. The laws are not equitable today, and need to be revised. There's a reason that American men are opting out of marriage at unprecedented rates. Its a simple cost-benefit analysis, and the value proposition isn't what it was 60, 70 years ago. And what's worse, this isn't a Chicken Little scenario... women are writing books about this, like Men on Strike, and The War on Men, etc. Hell, even a gay man wrote a book about it called The Way of Men.

I honestly think we've swung the pendulum too far in favor of women, and it'll take some time before it swings back to the middle, where we can hopefully keep it.

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