JB posted more foolish nonsense below that shows that he doesn't really know how things work most of the time in relation to divorce and alimony. In most states a woman can't empty the couples bank account and file for divorce without being expected to return half of the money she took out of the account in one way or another. Virtually everything that the couple owns jointly will be split 50/50 unless they mutually agree to do things in other ways. This is because the majority of the time each spouse is considered to be contributing equally to the marriage in one way or another. Both people may be working at a job and contributing financially, and also contributing emotionally, physically, sexually, and in many other ways equally.
Often when only the husband works and is the "bread winner", the wife will be picking up the slack and doing almost all of the housework, shopping, cooking, caring for the children, etc. It is also the case if only the wife works and is the "bread winner" and the husband takes care of other things so they both contribute equally. Any man who thinks that making money is the only thing that contributes to the livelihood of a marriage is an ass. Also, in most states a spouse will not get alimony for the rest of their life unless they have no working skills, and are too old to get any before they can start a career and start supporting themselves as a result. Even if this is the case, if they remarry their alimony will stop.
In most cases if one of the spouses is not too old to get a job, but has no career skills, has not been working, and is a stay-at-home mom/dad at the request, and/or with the appreciation and acceptance of the working spouse, if they divorce the spouse who has not been working will be expected to get job training and then begin working and supporting themselves. The working spouse will pay for the job training and the non-working spouse will receive alimony while they are getting their job training and then looking for a job, but once they get a job their alimony will usually end. This is the norm in almost every state. This is also the case if the spouse has been working, but only part-time or at a lower paying job than the other spouse. They will receive alimony until they begin working full-time and are able to support themselves as a result, or if they work at a job where even if they work full-time they still will not be making enough to support themselves they will get alimony until they get the training needed to get a job where they can support themselves, and then actually get the job that enables them to do so. This is often the case if, for instance, one spouse works at a fast food restaurant like McDonalds while the other spouse works at a job where they earn more pay. The courts in almost every state rarely ever let a young wife, who is capable of somehow getting a job and supporting herself, collect alimony from her husband for the rest of her life if they get a divorce. Any MRA who thinks that is common is showing, once again, that he doesn't know much about reality.
I find it very interesting that JB has indicated that his wife is now working full-time. When I first encountered him here on EP he stated that his wife was not working, and did not want to, because she didn't like working with women and every job she could ever have would require her to have female co-workers. If she is working full-time now it must be either because she got bored not working and really didn't have a problem working with women (JB was lying again), or because she found a job where only men are her co-workers (very unlikely), or JB ended up working less and being on the internet instead so he wasn't making enough money to support his family and his wife had to go to work to pick up the slack. Those are the only reasons I can think of as to why she would be working full-time now ba<x>sed on what he wrote about her in the past.
