DIVORCE AND TAKING WOMEN FOR GRANTED: Hugo Schwyzer
...Even my parents divorce was both an important feminist lesson and a wonderful, if difficult, opportunity for growth. Divorce is never easy on children, and I won't pretend that it was. But my parents' decision to separate sent me a lasting message that I could not take women for granted. Just because you've married and had children doesn't mean you will stay, regardless of external circumstances. When you're certain that you won't ever be left, no matter how badly you behave, you have far fewer incentives to exercise self-control than when you know darned well that if you blow it, the other party may well say goodbye. I'd like to think that was a good and important lesson for my brother and me to learn, and that it has helped us enormously in our adult relationships with women to the present day.
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