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

Lucian Nemoiu

A new report shows that more women than ever are walking away from their marriages because they have ‘just had enough’. But, while husbands are left in shock after an ‘out-of-the-blue’ divorce, Flic Everett discovers, it is a very different story for their wives W hen Kate*, 53, sat across the dinner table from her husband Jim one September evening, she poured a glass of wine, listened to his troubles, and then waited for him to ask her about the work presentation that she’d been dreading. And

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