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6 Responses to “Mamma’s boys fuel Italy’s soaring divorce rate”

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1. amfortas

   2006-11-13 at 8:06 pm

   This feminist ‘psychology’. Let me see if I have it right. If a man confides in his mother, tells her his intimate secrets, discusses his sex life with her, phones her every day, he is immature. If a woman confides in her mother ….. etc, and especially irons shirts the way mum does, she is sensitive and empathetic and has a strong, intimate bond that men just don’t understand – because they are immature. Riiiight. And men should be more like women. Riiiight. Damned if you do; damned if you don’t. Ahhh. I get it.

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2. fourthwire

   2006-11-13 at 3:45 pm

   LOL…… and the author of this bilge wants me to believe that “interfering mothers-in-law” are a NEW phenomenon in Western societies?

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3. mruffolo

   2006-11-13 at 1:08 pm

   If you must marry, then you may consider making a commitment with a South American woman as have been raised in a traditional, feminist-free culture.

   I date a woman from Peru. She is not spoiled – she is appreciative of little things that Americanized women ignore.

   My Peruvian friend said that men are “kings” in her culture. The divorce rate is about a tenth of the rate of America’s divorce rate. Though there are fewer divorces wiht South American wives, most of marriage are initiated by men.

   http://www.divorcemag.com/statistics/statsWorld.shtml

   Today by chance I discover this informative site.

   http://www.singleabroad.com

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4. KRS

   2006-11-13 at 12:31 pm

   Oh I get it. Yet another article that blames all marital discord on men. In this case, the rising divorce rate is because “momma’s boys” (read: men who aren’t REAL men) are allowing their mothers to interfere too much. I note how the article never even hints that the wife might be to blame in the slightest way for the rising divorce rates, say because she is a feminist and refuses to do anything that is “demeaning”, i.e. anything requiring actual work.

   I personally wonder how much of the conflict between mothers-in-law and wives has to do with the fact that the older, wiser mother-in-law doesn’t see the deceitful wife the through rose-colored glasses of love that the husband does. In other words, she has her figured out, and so she raises issues that give rise to the conflicts which eventually lead to divorce.

   Just a thought….

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5. roger

   2006-11-13 at 9:32 am

   perhaps – or is it partially a case of the mother in law “knowing” what the roles of women “should” be. No doubt there is a big difference in the expectations of the husband and mother in law, v.s. the expectations of the (at least partially) feminised wife. Conflict will brew naturally between husband and wife…and husband will probably see things he likes “better” in his mom, v.s. his wife.

   They are going through the same generational changes we in the USA did a few years back. Young men find themselves in a world of women that he may find problematic. The young women reject how HE was brought up, but he doesnt.

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6. DcFather

   2006-11-13 at 6:45 am

   I guess they’re hoping the divorcing women with sons don’t think so far ahead as to realize they will be used as another “blame the man” scapegoat when her son gets divorced. Feminism can’t destroy men without destroying women too, but I guess you can rely on enough women being either selfish or shortsighted enough to go along with it anyhow, for now at least.

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