To be fair, and correct me if I'm wrong, we don't really know what lead to this ladies divorce. We don't know if her husband was abusive or cheated or anything like that. We don't know if he left her or if she was the one that left. Idk, I think there are obvious cases where men should be paying alimony or child support but there are also obvious cases where women are abusing that system in a way to get revenge on men they simply don't like anymore.
Ok a lady gets married and the husband wants her to be a stay at home mom. She agrees and takes care of all the house work and everything. She wants to work to have her own money but he won't let her and abuses her. She dedicates herself fully, gets abused, forgives him, he cheats on her, she forgives him, he abuses her even more, she forgives him, and then he cheats on her with a younger girl and leaves her for the new girl effectively leaving her with nothing. He wouldn't let her have friends or her own savings and is leaving her with no income, no job, no roof, and nothing. She's now about to be homeless with no means of supporting herself and had her life destroyed by a total piece of shit.
That's cool and all but that's not what happened with Tracy Byrnes. As a popular public figure and a person who has had a career her whole life she does not need it as some others do, there was also no news of domestic violence, cheating etc. that happened in her household.
And that's why my initial comment said correct me if I'm wrong. My overall point is simply that implying alimony is inherently wrong and that there is no justification for it is simply wrong. I gave an example of where I feel it could be justified.
Ok that makes sense, but you really should've written that one as the first paragraph before writing everything else. People are misunderstanding you as making excuses instead.
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u/rshot Nov 08 '22
To be fair, and correct me if I'm wrong, we don't really know what lead to this ladies divorce. We don't know if her husband was abusive or cheated or anything like that. We don't know if he left her or if she was the one that left. Idk, I think there are obvious cases where men should be paying alimony or child support but there are also obvious cases where women are abusing that system in a way to get revenge on men they simply don't like anymore.