Other then the lawyers who get paid, there are no winners in divorce. Everyone looses.

Nice rant.

When you tally up all the incidentals, my divorce cost me a little more than $75,000, to say nothing of the residuals I pay in the form of "her share" in my military retirement.  This from a guy who was, at the time, making just about $35,000 a year.  When you factor in the child support that was initially 40% of my net income, it's easy to understand why nine years later, I'm still paying off that debt, and even easier to understand why I might be angry.  It was SHE, after all, who was unfaithful, and not me.

I carry all of that, and more, and yes, I am still pissed off.

But I have never, ever suggested that I'd be better off if my ex-wife were dead.

There is no honor is such thoughts.

Umm...

You forget to mention one other thing that SOME men might want to do to their ex-wife (or even current wife) that O.J. did...and thats kill them and get away with it.

Guz

What's with this "dead ex wives"  lol also from an earlier post a "wife on a milk carton"  Is it just me or does anyone else looking for the right woman to marry and live happy ever after lol.......i guess not :P
sham

I know you're joking but OJ's an abusive bully shithead who got away with murder and deserves to be in jail for the rest of his life.  I guess we'll all have to be satisfied with him being a social pariah who is treated with the disgust and contempt he's earned.  Don't forget, he didn't just kill his ex-wife.  He also murdered Ron Goldman and deprived his kids of growing up with their mother.

... and I find it astounding and even sickening that someone would invoke his name as someone to be "admired" even if it was in jest.
Perhaps you could add "d) got away with murder twice" to that list.

I have never gone through divorce but I know others who have experienced the trauma and bitterness of divorce. I'm sure there are a lot of nightmare stories out there where one party or the other has suffered greatly and in a disproportionate way with respect to their own culpability. Often times it can be the one who has the "best" lawyer that "wins". I am astounded at how little people really know about each other when they decide to take that walk down the aisle. Is it any wonder that the divorce rate in this country still hovers at the 50%- 60% range?

There is far too much violence in our society and perhaps that violence is far too often  directed at the physically weaker, namely women and children. That violence doesn't have to culminate in death for it to potentially have a lifelong impact on the victim of that violence. Rape comes to mind. How many men outside the prison system do you know who have experienced the brutality of rape?

Before you think I am someone who takes a very slanted, even one sided stance on the issue of divorce let me remind you of the Betty Broderick case here in San Diego. She was the wife of a successful attorney. They went through a bitter divorce. He ended up marrying a woman who worked in his law office. There may or may not have been an issue of infidelity. In the end his ex, Betty, broke into his home one morning and shot him and his new wife dead as they lay in bed. I have no more respect for Betty Broderick than I do for O.J. Wishing one's ex dead or having a direct hand in that is indefensible. O.J. I am convinced had a direct hand in two murders. No one else with any credible motive has ever been brought forth as being responsible for those murders.

Despite the anger, bitterness, and often lack of fairness in divorce joking about it in this way is just wrong on the face of it. As MasterYoda2 said there is nothing honorable in how this was presented.



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