Why ‘walkaway wives’ are leading the charge in midlife divorce

Article here. Bet if there was no alimony or 50/50 split (or worse) of "marital property", you'd see far fewer marriages, period. If being married to a man is so tiresome, why do women do it? Answer: a payday. To me, nothing's worth that much hassle. Ladies, stop instigating marriages, esp. if you don't really want them. Excerpt:

'It’s a scenario increasingly being played out in homes across Britain. Rather than put up and shut up, women in midlife are realising that there’s more to life than a grumpy or self-interested husband, and voting with their feet. While men used to initiate more divorces – the classic midlife crisis where they ran off with a younger woman – this has shifted over the past few years. Today, women are as likely to start divorce proceedings, especially in midlife. And more than ever, this is coming out of the blue for their comfortable husbands who had assumed everything was just ticking along nicely.

"My request for a divorce last October entirely took my ex by surprise," says business systems expert Ana Clarke, 41, from Tunbridge Wells. "I had just given up trying to change anything – he assumed my silence meant I was accepting of his shortcomings, but in reality, I was slowly checking out of the marriage."'