Why midlife divorce is good for you (as long as you’re a woman)

Article here. Excerpt:

'It wasn’t any one incident that convinced Pat*, 55, from Cheshire that she had to leave her husband – just 25 years of feeling taken for granted.

“It was OK while he was working,” she explains. “We both had our separate lives, and he was a workaholic and travelled a lot. But then he retired, and he was under my feet. He was pretty lost, I suppose. But he just undermined me constantly… everyday, he’d say or do something which hurt: forgetting something important to me, not noticing something I had done for him, being negative.

“Each thing in isolation wasn’t that bad… but it built up. I can remember looking at him one day across the breakfast table and thinking, ‘I just can’t do this anymore’.”

Given that she is only in her mid-50s, Pat says she thought: “I might live for another 40 years. There has to be more to life than this. So I told him I’d had enough. At that point, he said he’d come to couples’ counselling, something I’d been suggesting for about 15 years. But by then, it was too late – when you are done, you are so done.”
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The upshot is that if men want to hang on to their “walkaway wives”, they are going to have to try a lot harder to keep them happy.'