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Just a simple goy from the Maritimes
Hey, old-timers: are you married? Don't you know that death is just around the corner and that you should go out and slut it up while you still have time? A woman named Marnie Wraith, who by her own account was married to a perfectly nice guy, decided to bail out of her second marriage at age 60 to do the eat, pray, love thing (good luck with that!) Backing her up is divorce lawyer Jared Grossman, because stereotypes exist for a reason:
"When Marnie Wraith looked at her relationship and asked herself if good enough was enough for her, she knew she needed a change.
"I needed a recalibration of my life based just on my needs," she told The Current host Matt Galloway.
Wraith and her common-law partner met when she was 50, a few years after her first divorce. They bought a house in Meaford, Ont., and spent their free time travelling. She says they had a good eight years together, but she felt there was more life to experience.
"I was coasting and I felt that I wasn't growing, and being almost 60, there were still more meaningful connections and adventures in life that I wasn't going to get in my situation," she said.
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"As we live longer, you're gonna see a lot more divorces later in life," says Toronto-based lawyer Jared Grossman.
Grossman, of Grossman Family Law, says grey divorces will continue to increase over time, because people have less responsibilities to deal with - like school-aged kids or jobs - when they're older.
"When the kids leave the house, you have the ability to be a little bit more selfish and really have that look inside of you and see what you really wanna do with life," Grossman said."
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"Why more Canadians are getting divorced later in life
"When Marnie Wraith looked at her relationship and asked herself if good enough was enough for her, she knew she needed a change.
"I needed a recalibration of my life based just on my needs," she told The Current host Matt Galloway.
Wraith and her common-law partner met when she was 50, a few years after her first divorce. They bought a house in Meaford, Ont., and spent their free time travelling. She says they had a good eight years together, but she felt there was more life to experience.
"I was coasting and I felt that I wasn't growing, and being almost 60, there were still more meaningful connections and adventures in life that I wasn't going to get in my situation," she said.
[...]
"As we live longer, you're gonna see a lot more divorces later in life," says Toronto-based lawyer Jared Grossman.
Grossman, of Grossman Family Law, says grey divorces will continue to increase over time, because people have less responsibilities to deal with - like school-aged kids or jobs - when they're older.
"When the kids leave the house, you have the ability to be a little bit more selfish and really have that look inside of you and see what you really wanna do with life," Grossman said."
https://archive.is/TftQU
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