Yours must be running at 7800 rpm by now.
Men are more likely to divorce their wives when the wife is diagnosed with a terminal illness than a woman is to leave her terminally ill husband. Is that not a man trading up to a younger and healthier woman? And we've all known men who trade their wives in for younger models once the wife starts showing signs of age. Trump has done it twice.
You just moved the goalposts for three reasons:
1) Leaving because of health reasons is not the same as leaving a healthy partner fur purely hedonistic reasons: for illness, the person leaving is fearful, not greedy.
2) Leaving to "trade up" means the male partner is never secure in the relationship.
3) Terminal illnesses are more likely at the end of life, then in the prime of life; and children are more likely to have left the home.
4) What are the total percentages? Apples and oranges, just to use a "tu quoque" fallacy.
Arguing from emotion, just like a woman.
While men are less likely to initiate divorce than women are, they are more likely to cheat. 20 million, or 1 in 6 married American men, were on Ashley Madison before it was hacked. That's an awful lot of married men looking to trade up from the woman they've got. Forbes: 20 Million Men Active on Ashley Madison
1 in 6 is still less than the rate of divorce overall. And some men are looking for a secret fling; whereas a divorce is ALWAYS known by the partner (duh).
Men are indeed less likely to initiate divorce than women are because divorce laws favor women, but they are more likely to cheat or otherwise stop fulfilling their part of making the marriage work. I'm not convinced that's any better. A woman whose husband is unfaithful faces a decline of living standards for her and her children (affairs and illegitimate children cost money), shows up to couples' events alone (affairs take time away from the marriage), and takes on more responsibilities, both domestic and bringing in income, as her husband checks out of the marriage. She is already a divorcee in all but name.
Lay off the bullshit.
A woman who is cheated on, does not face prison time or loss of ability to earn a living by court-ordered revocation of professional licenses, than a man who has been divorced. And, again, far more divorces happen than affairs: how many of the women on Ashley Madison were real instead of fakes to generate traffic to the site? How many of the 20 million actually managed an affair?
The exception, among women, is the difference between "Mr. Right" (marriage) and "Mr. RIGHT NOW!"...
How is this different from the dichotomy men make between "wife material" and "thots"?
The difference is that you pulled that sentence out of context in order to make a specious argument. I brought this up to show how hypergamy manifests in women, but that men are not continually looking for "something better" and you twisted it to make it look like I was praising the men sleeping around, and condemning the women. Typical female dishonesty and male-shaming. The contrast between the top 10% of men slumming, and the women doing "Mr. Right Now" (say, a BJ in the men's room of a sleazy bar, or taking him home for a hot and sweaty romp) is that men are not expected to dress in white at the wedding, and a man's loss of virginity is not considered a deal-breaker for marriage: women look for providers (or used to), and for someone who will be faithful to HER from now on, not necessarily for a man who has never been with anyone else.
I know a lot of women with unfaithful husbands. Replace "he used a condom" with "she was on the pill" and the excuses are identical. It's not a woman thing; it's a cheater thing. Both men and women should avoid known cheaters for best results.
Again, you're lying, and in favor of women. The reason that a man rationalizes "she was on the pill" is that (contrary to your earlier argument) it means he is less likely to have a bastard child, which would draw money and time away from his wife. But when a woman says "he used a condom" (particularly in the example I saw earlier today), that means that the sex never happened, she doesn't have to include it in her notch count, or tell her next LTR about it. Incidentally, pointing out a video re-posted on patriots.win is not solipsism: I mentioned the viedo because that video showed I was not making up the accusation that women lie about their notch count.
How is this different from the dichotomy men make between "wife material" and "thots"?
Women lie about their notch count when trying to land a man for marriage.