40% first marriages in US end in divorce. Second marriages have 60%. 2/3 initiated by women

You just need to know few people to qualify for "multiple times"

It's a large jump from "divorces happen a lot" to "many startup founders have their highschool sweetheart honeypot them for child support"

In fairness, it seems like everyone is a startup founder. I can't tell you the number of CV's and resumes I've seen that have CEO of something I've never heard of on them.

Just saying that being a startup founder is not particularly rare or special the past twenty years. You don't even have to do particularly well with your startup. People probably get targeted for a measly 750K exit. I think on HN we get a twisted opinion of what is big money to most people.

>" I think on HN we get a twisted opinion of what is big money to most people."

>"a measly 750K exit"

No kidding, lol.

> 2/3 initiated by women

You say this like 2/3 of divorce is the fault of women, but IME they usually have good reason to do so.

Agreed. If we’re talking inconvenient truths, I see far, far more husbands being useless married (and particularly parental) partners than I do wives. And I say this as a man.

I’m assuming “initiated by” is an objective legal term for filing the divorce. which ironically is probably oppositely correlated to fault in divorces, i.e if the husband cheats, the wife files for divorce, and it was the husband’s ‘fault’ as they breaches the marital contract

The figure comes from interview data of post-divorce couples regarding motives for divorce (and a few other questions, i.e. regret etc). It's not literal paperwork filing data.

I'm fairly sure they meant entirely the opposite.

There is no conspiracy in it

Divorce implies involvement of a government institution and women feel like a fish in water when it comes to bureaucracy, while men avoid it

That's why in same-sex pairs women are twice likely to call cops and file a lawsuit regarding house abuse and men half as often

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I sure have. I’m surprised you’re surprised.

People are missing the point; it depends on the "circle" you are in. Not all will have the same experiences occurring at the same frequency.

This is how you know this is a male dominated forum: women would not be remotely surprised and in fact tend to be the only ones warning of it when it is about to happen.

And let’s face it, nerds are especially vulnerable.

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