Nutrimentia
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quote: Originally posted by * Datura *:
Are you sure that they don't mean men stick with the marriage and go behind their wives backs, but the women are too smart and dump their jerkasses? 
Paternity tests suggest that as many as 25% of kids in the US may have a father different than the husband of the mother.
I think that if the women gets caught cheating, men may be more likely to divorce. But in terms of general stress in the marriage, women are more likely to get the not only the short end of the stick, but the end with lots of turds and rotting garbage on it too. Men beat women more, tend to be more possessive and controlling, more demanding with regards to the amount of effort put into the domestile (that seems like a word, but now I am not sure..)
Also, I think there is a subtle arrogance that runs in many men that they are just the cream of the crop and that she couldn't find a better man. They feel that she will be there no matter what they do. Plus there are issues of machismo in dealing with a failed marriage. It is a sacrifice of sorts for a man to take himself of the market to be with a woman, and no one wants to concede that they shouldn't have done it. Unless she cheats or has some horribly obvious personality defect, its hard to blame her if you leave her.
These are coarse generalizations of course, and are not intended to indict all men or women, so you can lay off the flames based on these generalizations.
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