Interesting story RobRoy. When I was a teenager, our church decided to get a deaconess because it was a very large church and the two pastors were overwhelmed. I don’t know what the divorce rate was before she came, but all of a sudden it seemed like couples all over the church started divorcing ... people who had been married for years or even decades.
The deaconess had a nice big house, and it seemed to become a staging place for women that had just left their husbands ... until they “got on their feet again”. At one point, I think there were 7 or 8 women living there, with their children. I met more divorcing people in the year after she came than I had in my entire life up to that point. And then my parents switched congregations ... and it all went away.
Yes. I think it is the cuture in which we now live. I understand that roughly 80% of divorces in the US are instigated by the wife. And a huge percentage of them are because she just “isn’t happy” any more.
As a matter of fact, this “fredoneverything” article pretty much nails what happened to my family. Frighteningly so. A lot of men who have read it have commented that it is very similar to what happened to them.
http://www.fredoneverything.net/Divorce.shtml