Wow- I never knew those

Guest — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:53:23 -0400

Wow- I never knew those statistics. It is very interesting to me that the Southern States are typically more conservative, yet they have high divorce rates. Hmmm, where is the logic in staying with someone who treats you badly just for the sake of being married? Or even if you just fell out of love, or hated each other, or whatever. Maybe this is why my friend from Kentucky is so fixated on marriage- she hasn't had a man in her life for some time. I guess it's a different kind of pressure that "Yanks" don't really get! CM

Thank you

Wanda Woodard — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:54:43 -0400

Always nice to hear from you, too!

great to hear your voice,

bargee — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:28:35 -0400

great to hear your voice, again, wanda!

Divorce a la Dixie

Wanda Woodard — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:42:24 -0400

Our D-I-V-O-R-C-E becomes final today
Me and little J-O-E will be goin' away
I love you both and it will be pure H-E double L for me
Oh, I wish that we could stop this D-I-V-O-R-C-E.
~Tammy Wynette

Divorce is ugly. In the south it’s so bad, some people can’t even say the word. They have to spell it.

The husband/wife relationship in Dixie is unique. Down here, marriage is still considered a sacred thing. In the Bible Belt, scripture says it is the woman’s place to keep the family together. If a divorce happens, it is always going to be blamed on the woman. After all, it’s up to her to hold the marriage together, to do enough to keep him interested and to always fight for him. Loretta Lynn can handle this one:

You say you're gonna take him
But I don't believe you can
Cause you ain't woman enough to take my man

Down south, a divorcee is considered a fallen woman who must have done something wrong. Or perhaps she didn’t do something right. In either case, she drove him away. A divorced man, however, is considered a good prospect.

“Before my friend divorced her husband for infidelity, his mistress she caught him with, sat up in bed and said if you were satisfying your man, he wouldn’t have to go looking for it someplace else,” said Tahira Hensley, a home loan specialist.

“The woman is the bad guy, every time.”

Gina, a home stager, says “My family was so upset when I told them that Bill had walked out on me and our boys that they actually called him to try to patch things up for us. Talk about humiliating! It’s not bad enough he left us to find himself, my family took his side!”

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Wow- I never knew those

Thank you

great to hear your voice,

Divorce a la Dixie