Franklin Wu
2 min readFeb 18, 2025

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Ah yes, let's just pin the blame on men and absolve women of any accountability.

Considering we don't even know the reasons behind the Gates divorce, this seems to be a rather lobsided way of taking another person's experience (Oppenheimer) and then trying to pin that on another divorce.

I have written my own article on the Gates divorce: https://medium.com/@franklinwuhoo/the-bill-and-melinda-gates-divorce-just-another-in-the-flood-of-divorce-initiated-by-women-b02cd4ceca03

It seems that if you are some sort of rich celebrity like Bill Gates, that the chances of the woman initiating the divorce is pretty much certainty at 100%.

While it might be abuse or infidelity, I think the vast majority of these women initiated divorces (90%) are what I call "recreational". In 20 seconds, a women decides that "I'm not in love anymore" or "I don't want a roommate like Jessica Alba" and this isn't what I signed up for, and then become increasingly unhappy that their unrealistic expectations are not being met. No financial problems, no abuse, no cheating, just a growing and vague dissatisfaction. Even the women themselves can't describe it and is likely the reason why you see no reason for the Gates divorce because there wasn't one. Once down the dark path, there is no return. On the other hand, men regret their divorces. Why? Because they didn't want one and were blindsided.

I just think that since women are the ones who are taking the "action" of initiating divorces, that they take a somewhat greater accountability for causing it and more accountability for actually fixing it. (I know, how politically incorrect) For a man, there is nothing he can do to offset a woman who is just simply dead set on a divorce. Nothing. But a woman can change her "expectations" and therefore her "happiness". One of the main points of my article is that happiness depends upon expectations and we most certainly can control our expectations. So if you don't want to end up like Bill Gates??? stop making yourself unhappy with your unrealistic expectations and take some accountability.

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Franklin Wu
Franklin Wu

Written by Franklin Wu

Writing about relationships or the lack thereof.

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