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A comment on When Laws Make Divorce Easier, Women Benefit, Outcomes Improve (2019). Parent comment

Re:When Laws Make Divorce Easier, Women Benefit, Outcomes Im... by useless_foghorn on Sunday February 11, 2024 @01:57PM (#39337481)
“If you are profiting from being unhappy you will find ways and reasons to be unhappy.”

I believe the idea expressed in ‘appetite comes with eating’ is that your desire to indulge in an activity is correlated (caused even) with that activity. IE skydivers will likely have a larger appetite or desire for skydiving than a layman.

In a larger context I believe cjbgkagh is arguing that women can retain an advantageous position in a marriage by pretending or presenting unhappiness because exiting a marital contract would be an especially poor outcome her partner.

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Re:When Laws Make Divorce Easier, Women Benefit, Outcomes Im... by cjbgkagh on Sunday February 11, 2024 @02:03PM (#39337532)
It's more of a general phenomena that I believe commonly applies to this specific case. Often there is an assumption that a demand can be satiated once met, but quite often instead the demands simply increase.
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