Dear Diary
On my travels today I met very remarkable individual;
Jean-Marie is French Canadian and he showed me his intelligence in a splendid manner. He has the same wife and has raised many children and has seen the injustice of the courts as it has related to his sons. More to the point however is that he said “women have no heart, when it comes to hurting their own husbands.” He laughed when he said this, but quickly returned to say he was absolutely serious! We talked for over a hour about divorce. He said to me "divorce after 30-40 years of marriage is insanity".
I had no trouble agreeing with him; this has been my experience as well. We are both the same age.
Don [From The Silent Generation - 1930's]
donwesley1933@live.com
"Britain is seeing a boom in silver-separations".
"They feel they have been left high and dry in circumstances they had never anticipated and are very unhappy. It is a real tragedy".
Pensioners are the only age group where the divorce rate is rising.
The increase in divorce rates among the over-60s has been described as "a major social revolution"
The latest figures, for 2009, reveal that more than 11,500 over-60s were granted a divorce – up 4 per cent in two years.
This contrasts with a fall in the divorce rate for all age groups of more than 11 per cent.
We are really witnessing a major social revolution, with older generations no longer behaving in the traditional manner.
They realise there is still time for new horizons and new perspectives. However, it can be very difficult for children to see their older parents splitting up and it is a worry when family units break up.
"I’ve had letters from older divorcees who were bewildered by what had suddenly happened and had experienced terrible loneliness' - Esther Rantzen"
TV presenter and journalist Esther Rantzen said she had been contacted by people who had divorced
late in life and suffered terrible loneliness.
But there are also cases when one partner desperately wanted to stay married end up unexpectedly on their own at a very vulnerable time in their lives.
"I’ve had letters from older divorcees who were bewildered by what had suddenly happened and had experienced terrible loneliness".
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2063430/The-growth-silver-separations-Divorce-rate-60s-surges.html#ixzz1e7N1xXTP
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