Women appear to me, after 6 decades and more, to be vastly more volatile. I think they do, just as men do, love deeply, but it can quickly change to hatred. It's like flipping a switch.

Most of the men I have met in my life who have had a divorce thrust upon them have gone into a deep and abiding depression, not so much because they are alone, but becaise of the betrayal, the rejection, the abandonment by the one person who was their 'best friend', the one person to whom they opened their soul.

Men get angry, but that is a far cry from the hatred women show. Men control their anger - society punishes them otherwise - but women are encouraged to act on their hatred.

Women seem to hate with ease. Without conscience. I have seen many women 'mourn' after a divorce that they have caused. It is a falsity. It isn't authentic or genuine. It is to gain sympathy and unearned benefits. They bemoan the man's 'faults'. They justify themselves continually. The man who was 'the one' for them becomes the worst person since Hitler.

Women seem to be able to ignore the pain of others, even their children. They throw themselves into turning their children into hate-machines too, getting them to pour even more pain onto their father. In all my years I have never seen a man teach his children to hate their mother with the passion that women dedicate. a passion that becomes clear after five minutes in the family court.