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Date: July 20th, 2026 9:01 PM Author: Flesh electric haunted graveyard 'When I finally said I was leaving, more than one friend responded: 'But he's a good guy.' And he was. That was never the question.' Read more: https://www.dailymail.com/lifestyle/article-15968711/real-reason-middle-aged-women-leaving-marriages.html
As I straddled a lover on my new leather couch, his question summed up EXACTLY why so many middle-aged women like me are blowing up their marriages updated 18:48 EDT 13 Jul 2026 By ÁINE ROCK FOR THE DAILY MAIL
As I straddled a lover on the leather couch in my new apartment, he asked: 'How is it possible you didn’t have sex for so many years? You are always in the mood.'
'I was a different person,' I said. 'It’s amazing what you can get used to.'
Two years ago, I never could have imagined myself doing a boudoir photo shoot or joining a Zoom room full of women in lingerie, talking about pleasure and power. The idea of even owning lingerie, let alone dancing in it, felt foreign to me.
My marriage had ended over a similar question, asked by my husband without looking up from his laptop: 'Are we ever going to have sex again?'
I was at the kitchen sink, rinsing strawberries. It was a fair question, asked the way you might ask about a dental appointment, and for most of our marriage I would have laughed it off, changed the subject, kept us both comfortable.
That morning I heard myself say: 'I don't want to do this anymore.'
He was asking about sex. My answer was about the whole marriage.
From the outside, I had everything I was supposed to want. A good husband. Two beautiful kids. Fourteen years in Chicago building a family, then the house in California I had dreamed about since my twenties.
He coached Little League. We hosted the holidays, showed up. If you had scrolled past us online, you would have thought: they've figured it out.
It took me years to admit that none of it was making me happy.
There was no villain in our story. No single dramatic reason I could hand people when they asked.
What we had was quieter than that and, I think, far more common. Somewhere along the way we had stopped being lovers and become colleagues. Two competent people running the business of marriage. We managed schedules, mortgages, school pickups.
We were polite and efficient with each other. And at some point, without either of us ever deciding it, we stopped reaching for each other.
The lack of intimacy was never just about sex. It was the hand that no longer reached for mine in the car. Conversations that were all logistics. Whole evenings in the same room without once really looking at each other.
Nobody warns you that you can feel lonelier lying next to someone than you ever felt alone.
I lived with that loneliness for years and I called it happiness.
That is the part I most want other women to hear. A low-grade dissatisfaction can pass for happiness when you have kids and a mortgage and no clear path to unwind any of it in a way that feels possible.
So you tuck the longing away. You tell yourself you're grateful, that this is what grown-up love looks like, that wanting more is greedy. And the longing sits there quietly, year after year, becoming a time bomb of its own.
I hear it now in the conversations on girls' nights out and over coffee, catching up on the highlight reel. Almost the same words I once used.
'Maybe when the kids finish school.'
'It's not so bad.'
'We have so much, shouldn't I be happy?'
At some point I emailed our estate attorney and asked, hypothetically, what a divorce would even look like. I felt sick hitting 'send.' Half of me needed the answer. Half of me hoped she wouldn't write back.
People love to ask when I knew it was over. There was no lightning bolt, no discovery, no last straw. It was slower and stranger than that. One afternoon I looked across the living room of that California dream house at my husband and realized I was looking at someone I used to know.
When I finally said I was leaving, more than one friend responded: 'But he's a good guy.'
And he was. That was never the question. What settled it for me was imagining my daughter grown, sitting across from me, describing this marriage as her own. The politeness. The distance. The quiet giving-up dressed as gratitude.
I knew in an instant what I would tell her to do. I just couldn't come up with one good reason why she deserved more than I did.
The wanting was never the problem. I was raised, like most women I know, to be agreeable. Easygoing. Low-maintenance was a compliment. And agreeable girls grow into women who don't make waves, who adapt, who flow.
So we flow. Into careers, into cities, into marriages. Then one day we look up and realize we have quietly flowed our way into a life that isn't the one we actually want.
Nobody forced us. That's what makes it so hard to see. Agreeableness doesn't feel like a cage from the inside. It feels like being easy to love.
Which is why admitting I wanted more was harder than the leaving itself. Wanting is dangerous for women like us. The moment you name it, even in a whisper, even alone in the car, you can't unname it.
It sat in me for years as a question I refused to finish. The day I finally finished it, the marriage was already over. The rest just took time.
Almost two years later, the end arrived by email on an ordinary gray afternoon, one line from the judge: the parties are divorced as of today. I cried harder than I had in years, and it caught me off guard because I wasn't sad it was over. I was crying for everything it had been. The wedding. The babies. The woman who kept trying.
Then I napped, made dinner, picked up the kids, and walked the dogs. Life is not a movie.
I thought I was the only one. I wasn't even close. In America, the share of divorces involving people over 50 has quadrupled since 1990, from under 9 percent to 36 percent.
And it's women doing the leaving. Research consistently shows women initiate the majority of these midlife divorces, even knowing what it will cost them. Studies put a woman's drop in standard of living after a gray divorce at nearly half.
We know that going in, and we go anyway. That should tell you something about what staying was costing us.
I don't think marriage got worse. I think women stopped lying about it. We were raised to be grateful and low-maintenance, to keep the family running and to call the running itself love.
Many of us used every ounce of our competence to manage our own dissatisfaction. Then the kids got older, our mothers got sick, our bodies stopped letting us pretend, and the question we had been swallowing for 20 years finally came up for air.
Is this it?
My life today is not a fairy tale. I'm a single mother. There are school runs and refinancing paperwork and nights when the grief still finds me.
But the house feels lighter. I never realized how much of my energy went into tracking the weather of another person until I stopped.
A few months ago my daughter caught me dancing in the kitchen in my pajamas and asked, half laughing, what was wrong with me. Nothing was. That was the whole news.
People call what I did blowing up my life. From the outside, I suppose it looked like an explosion. From the inside, it was the slowest thing I have ever done, a decade of true sentences I kept postponing.
And it doesn't have to end the way mine did. For some women, the braver move is telling the truth inside the marriage. Naming what has gone quiet. Reaching for each other again before the distance hardens into something neither of you can cross.
So if you're reading this and something in your chest just went still, I'm not telling you to leave. But stop pretending you can't hear it. The longing you keep tucking away doesn't dissolve. It waits.
I had everything I was supposed to want. It took me 20 years to say out loud: I want more than this, and wanting is enough. Full stop.
Blow Up Your Life: The Wild Art of Wanting More by Áine Rock is published by Rise Books |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 9:19 PM Author: salmon demanding church DEFINITELY not a cumskin thing to openly display one's sexual deviancy on social media, like bonnie blue, 14 yr old single mom youtube girl, sophie cunningham's herpes, emily ratajkowski, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013265) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 9:20 PM Author: salmon demanding church these trillions of examples of cumskins broadcasting their sexual deviancy on social media are just exceptions to the rule, stupid gook. they don't prove SHIT!!!1111111 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013267) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 9:21 PM Author: Flesh electric haunted graveyard Yeah you’re definitely NOT obsessed with whites
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Date: July 20th, 2026 9:21 PM Author: salmon demanding church Wow yeah this one case totally refutes that generalization you gigantic idiot Date: October 8th, 2025 1:32 AM
Author: Pumonymous
http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5784144&forum_id=2#49333634 |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 9:36 PM Author: salmon demanding church all these turds complain about white people as they desperately scramble to climb onto our world. Date: August 11th, 2025 12:59 AM
Author: peeface
http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2963314&forum_id=2#49173789 |
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Date: July 21st, 2026 1:59 AM Author: Flesh electric haunted graveyard Do you ever contribute anything of value or just shit up threads with non sequiturs, you mentally ill piece of shit ? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013790) |
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Date: July 21st, 2026 2:01 AM Author: salmon demanding church TRIGGERED CUMSKIN ALERT (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013791) |
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Date: July 21st, 2026 2:02 AM Author: Flesh electric haunted graveyard Oh so you’re retarded , got it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013792) |
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Date: July 21st, 2026 2:02 AM Author: salmon demanding church don't forget NYUUG isn't korean. NO KOREAN PASSPORT! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013794) |
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Date: July 21st, 2026 2:04 AM Author: Flesh electric haunted graveyard You’re a weird freak (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013796) |
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Date: July 21st, 2026 2:14 AM Author: salmon demanding church There is no race that is as MORALLY ADVANCED as the WHITE RACE
https://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4184644&mc=40&forum_id=2 |
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Date: July 22nd, 2026 8:59 PM Author: lavender gaping hall Eat shit Chaebong (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50018034) |
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Date: July 27th, 2026 7:20 PM Author: nyuug (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50027999) |
Date: July 20th, 2026 9:05 PM Author: lascivious goal in life What a whore (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013239) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 9:22 PM Author: salmon demanding church cumskins can't be stereotyped bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013280) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 9:05 PM Author: Vermilion sexy temple candlestick maker cool when can we start beating the shit out of women again (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013240) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 9:09 PM Author: Pearly Cowardly Hell "There was no villain in our story."
Women versus Accountability |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 9:21 PM Author: Big Forum People Who Are Hurt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013275) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 9:27 PM Author: lavender gaping hall All those words about herself and not an ounce of actual introspection (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013295) |
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Date: July 21st, 2026 7:56 AM Author: Irradiated bawdyhouse private investor lol! I was thinking I do see a villain here. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013883) |
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Date: July 21st, 2026 9:58 PM Author: Infuriating Gold Base (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50015680) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 4:41 PM Author: valar vettiri morghulis Women remain undefeated (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50023894) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 1:24 AM Author: Judeo-Christian Values (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50028887) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 1:54 AM Author: .,..,.,,.,..,,,.,.,.,..,..,..,.,..,,.,.,.,. Odd case! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50028891) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 9:19 PM Author: Maize multi-colored menage sound barrier straddled my lover (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013264) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 9:26 PM Author: lavender gaping hall tp, of course (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013288) |
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Date: July 21st, 2026 5:00 AM Author: submissive theater mother MY masters MY divorce MY lover |
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Date: July 21st, 2026 9:49 PM Author: Titillating idiotic mediation (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50015648) |
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Date: July 21st, 2026 11:57 PM Author: filthy affirmative action (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50015976) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 9:19 PM Author: histrionic digit ratio I sort of assumed that divorce laws were one of those quieter aspects of the law in Europe/the UK where they probably hadn’t fallen as far down any feminist rabbit hole that would result the dogshit regime we have especially in blue states in the U.S., but then I googled a bit and lo and behold. If my wife left me and was awarded lifetime alimony and then wrote this I would murder her in a matter of seconds and then do everything I could to turn my trial into a massive public spectacle. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013266) |
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Date: July 21st, 2026 5:45 AM Author: razzle free-loading heaven potus fair (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013818) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 9:22 PM Author: High-end mustard property Blow Up Your Life Then Blow Your New Lover: A Woman's Story (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013278) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 9:29 PM Author: Contagious Crimson Codepig "There was no villain in our story." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013303) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 9:30 PM Author: lavender gaping hall , the sheltered housewife story (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013308) |
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Date: July 22nd, 2026 9:12 PM Author: ...,....,,........ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50018070) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 6:37 AM Author: ;::;:;;::;;;;;:::: LOL ask your kids about that one |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 9:37 PM Author: Violent trip stag film who else clicked this fully expecting a JJC poast (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013330) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 10:04 PM Author: bistre adventurous hairy legs dog poop this housewife didn't make it past Black October (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013398) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 9:43 PM Author: zombie-like exciting office gaming laptop "The woman who kept trying."
Did she keep trying?
Why not put on lingerie for her husband and just have sex with him? Start a date night. Etc.
Gray divorce sounds great until you realize you're just trading in a boring marriage for another old person who will have new annoying habits. And her daughter isn't going to understand when she realizes her dad did nothing wrong and now her mom is writing about straddling her lover. Guess who daughter is going to hang out with at Christmas? |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 10:08 PM Author: well-lubricated offensive resort famous landscape painting no she didnt try u fag its a woman and she didnt feel enough novelty so she bailed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013419) |
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Date: July 27th, 2026 7:25 PM Author: Ricky (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50028006) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 10:09 PM Author: Pearly Cowardly Hell Wanting Even More: The Art of Not Being Beholden to your Children by Áine Rock is a powerful sequel about how empowering it can be stop living to meet your childrens expectations and just enjoy Christmas dinner alone. Hitting bookshelves Winter 2032. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013427) |
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Date: July 21st, 2026 5:04 AM Author: submissive theater mother (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013817) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 6:38 AM Author: ;::;:;;::;;;;;:::: (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50028961) |
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Date: July 21st, 2026 6:37 PM Author: Wonderful drab hunting ground no one wants to fuck their 10+ year spouse. just accept it and move on. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50015177) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 10:05 PM Author: well-lubricated offensive resort famous landscape painting we live in a matriarchy and all u faggots who encouraged that clothes buying simp are part of it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013408) |
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Date: July 21st, 2026 2:15 AM Author: French Dysfunction Garrison millennials are huge fucking faggots! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013803) |
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Date: July 21st, 2026 6:20 AM Author: Mind-boggling Naked Legend Round Eye can someone remember to screen the internet for a follow up article in a year or two? she will be writing about how she regrets leaving and that she's been pumped and dumped dozens of times and can't find the right man, that she shouldn't have left "a good man" just because she was bored, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013825) |
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Date: July 21st, 2026 7:50 AM Author: Tripping rambunctious meetinghouse Even that is way more effort than she's worth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50013880) |
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Date: July 21st, 2026 7:55 AM Author: Mind-boggling Naked Legend Round Eye , said Chad as he swiped left.
(Left means you don’t like, right?) |
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Date: July 21st, 2026 7:57 AM Author: Stirring Station Not fat, but massive retarded tattoos on chest and arm (and undoubtedly everywhere else)
https://ainerock.com/ |
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Date: July 21st, 2026 5:25 PM Author: Wild mauve institution dude should be writing her a thank you card (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50014970) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 4:30 PM Author: Ass Sunstein (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50023874) |
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Date: July 27th, 2026 9:25 PM Author: Ricky (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50028435) |
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Date: July 21st, 2026 5:42 PM Author: alcoholic stead nowag you can see her nips in some of those pics (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50015037) |
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Date: July 21st, 2026 6:33 PM Author: stimulating emerald reading party Is there a distinctive boomer smell? Because we have "thread smells like duck sauce," but this thread reeks of ballin'-outrageous boomerism worse than any i've seen in the 2020s. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50015164) |
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Date: July 21st, 2026 7:35 PM Author: zombie-like exciting office gaming laptop I'm sure her daughter is thrilled that she's "living her best life" and not at all upset she ruined every Christmas going forward and has a weird website where she's in a video swinging in a sexual manner. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50015294) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 6:38 AM Author: ;::;:;;::;;;;;:::: take your daughter to work day (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50028960) |
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Date: July 27th, 2026 7:24 PM Author: Ricky "Pleasure Priestess"
hfs
i would love to be in ancient times and be the first to offer to strangulate and stone her to death
pretty sure she's teaching old shrew sewage how to hagmaxx their holes as escorts based on the site though if i had to guess |
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Date: July 27th, 2026 9:18 PM Author: Richard Ames I assume the site is just a cover for her escort business. I know of one woman IRL who went from a corporate role to this sort of "business" after getting a divorce during covid. Totally insane. All the same language as well. I am fairly sure it just serves as a legal front to advertise to people who hit her up on social media with more direct arrangements. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50028419) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 1:27 AM Author: Judeo-Christian Values Truly disgusting (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50028888) |
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Date: July 21st, 2026 6:36 PM Author: Wonderful drab hunting ground At some point I emailed our estate attorney and asked, hypothetically, what a divorce would even look like. I felt sick hitting 'send.' Half of me needed the answer. Half of me hoped she wouldn't write back.
The next day, the attorney replied and I nearly jumped out of my chair. I was free! "I could've left years ago," I thought. |
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Date: July 21st, 2026 9:57 PM Author: Titillating idiotic mediation My biggest takeaway is that this woman was desperate for her husband to bend her over his knee and spank her until she understood who was in charge.
Obviously this birdbrain is mentally ill beyond belief and doesn't seem to understand that she will continue to age and at some point will be unable to sell whatever "services" she is selling (presumably she is some sort of hooker with her website as a cover story.) But I believe that a huge amount of this sort of shit comes from marriages in which the woman views herself as an equal "partner" to her husband. "My Partner and I are looking at a house this weekend," "my Partner and I love that restaurant." Uhhh, your business partner? Don't you mean your Husband?
If she doesn't view her man as the leader, her brain can get filled with a variety of bullshit. Obviously this woman represents a very, very extreme outcome.
I think of times I'm in the gym and I hear women in their late 30s / early 40s badmouthing their husbands in really subtle, but telling ways. And you can just tell there is resentment...and that their husbands need to legitimately just spank them with brute force. |
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Date: July 21st, 2026 11:17 PM Author: well-lubricated offensive resort famous landscape painting what do these women say about their husbands
apparently its a big thing on mom tiktok. i could probably beat off to it but the thought of taking action to get into that algorithm damages me spiritually. |
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Date: July 23rd, 2026 12:58 PM Author: Richard Ames It's just always these undermining style comments that show a lack of respect. One woman recently talked about how her husband "is working on some new project...but he always says that and he never does." It's often around the husband's career or lack of fitness. Just underhanded shit where I'm like "damn these women need to be spanked!" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50019198) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 1:58 AM Author: .,..,.,,.,..,,,.,.,.,..,..,..,.,..,,.,.,.,. Wife spanking would solve so many problems in modern society. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50028892) |
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Date: July 25th, 2026 12:30 PM Author: nude litigator cool, some neurotic female blackpill slop, thanks. we were running low (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5884588&forum_id=2/en-en#50023425) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 6:36 AM Author: ;::;:;;::;;;;;:::: The woman who kept trying. LOL |