empty nest divorce time?
Empty nests often presage divorce, and Patrice couldn't wait for her daughters to grow up and leave home so that she could divorce her domineering, sex addicted husband."In many respects my early marriage closely resembled that of Rosemarie Fritzl's -- we were both trapped by motherhood -- but by the time both of us were empty nesters, free at last from childcare duties, I made a decision to break free of my life as a submissive dominated sex-slave wife, but Rosemarie did not. Why?"
"She may not have known that her daughter Elisabeth was locked up in the cellar, rather than living with a commune, replacing her as Fritzl's sex slave, but she sure as hell knew that Fritzl was getting his rocks off somewhere else and for this she was undoubtedly grateful and decided it was better to stay with him and enjoy the social and material comforts of married life rather than suffer the consequences of divorce, having to fend for herself and the possibility of meeting a worse man than she had already."
"She made this decision because she had the power to do so -- she was not a helpless victim, like her daughter Elisabeth, locked up in a cellar,” asserts Patrice. “She weighed up the good and bad aspects of her marriage, and decided to stay.”
“Had Rosemarie taken the direction of divorce that I and many women made when their children grew up and left home, her husband would not have been enabled to continue his double life and Elisabeth downstairs in the cellar may have been spared the further trauma of giving birth to her father’s babies."
"In a divorce, assets are split, homes are sold and new partners are found," explains Patrice. “The Fritzl’s were wealthy, owning several properties, and Rosemarie had no fear, as I had, of ending up destitute.”
“I had to face poverty, disapproval and death threats when I left the empty nest but my loathing of my husband made it worth it,” says Patrice. “If Rosemarie stayed because she loved her man, and was willing to overlook the horror taking place under her nose, then what sort of woman is she?”
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