Divorce and the surly male
AS High Court Judge Sir Paul Coleridge expresses sorrow at the mature couples who split after decades of marriage, I chatted to divorce lawyer Vanessa Lloyd Platt. “Why do couples break up in their twilight years?” I asked her. “Because the men are so rude,” she replied.
“Men become cantankerous curmudgeons, crusty, caustic, surly and bad-tempered. They take out their frustration with the rest of the world on their wives. They forget to kiss them, thank them or show any interest whatsoever in them.
On any given day at my practice you will see pleasant, mild-mannered women who have been devoted to their husbands sometimes for almost half a century seeking a divorce because they can’t stomach his churlish behaviour any longer.”