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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • It’s all comes down to money and assets. The way it works in the US is, broadly, they get half of your shit unless you signed a prenup.

    This is ironically a callback to old school patriarchal structures where a woman divorcing her husband often did not have any marketable skill sets because they were housewives. The courts saw fit to have the husband continue providing for them until they are self supporting- conceptually.