I was recently talking with a female friend. She's a very canny woman, who's one of the most perceptive people I know when it comes to relationships.

We were talking about a mutual friend who's fairly well-off. She offhanded remarked, "I can't believe he's still married."

I said, "why, because you thought he would trade his wife in for a new model?"

She looked at me like I was crazy, and proceeded to explain how when men become wealthy, many women decide they're better off with a divorce because they get alimony, child support, etc. Plus they don't have to take care of the kids on the weekends. Most importantly, they don't have to take care of the husband any more.

Now, she's a great gal, and she herself is married and has been for a long time. In fact, she a bit red pill (she's told me in the past that most women don't like wishy washy husbands, that men should take the lead in marriage, etc.) But she stated this as if it were common knowledge among women.

I wasn't surprised, though I would have been a year ago.

Subsequently, as we talked about marriage a bit more, she said, "you know, a lot of women nowadays go into marriage figuring that if it doesn't work out, they will just get a divorce. It's no big deal."

This one threw me for a loop. I don't think most men have that kind of cavalier attitude toward marriage. (She agreed that most men take marriage more seriously than that). It underscores that men do fall harder for women than women fall for men--"she doesn't love you like that," onenitis, etc.