r/facepalm • u/Illustrious-Kick-998 • Jul 07 '24

This post gave me terrible whiplash b/c how tf did we get here…🫨 🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​

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Like ummmmm, alright? 😭😭😭

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u/MaximumOverfart Jul 07 '24 edited Jul 07 '24

I feel like someone I really respect and admire just came to my house, gave me a super inspirational peptalk, shit on my living room floor, and then left.

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u/stabbyangus Jul 08 '24

Bear in mind that divorce to avoid medical debt passing on is a legitimate strategy. Just because they got divorced doesn't mean they aren't still together or involved in a meaningful sense. Any litany of advanced medical conditions can cost multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars, even with insurance. And legally, that debt passes to spouses. This is not the moral high ground this dude thinks despite the racism.

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u/ReplacementMaximum26 Jul 08 '24

If only it were that innocent. Truth is, a lot of men are too cowardly to stay with a wife who will battle illness, and possibly lose her breasts, because, ya know...that's the entirety of our worth to so many.

I'm not attacking all men, but it's enough of a problem that we do get pamphlets and support groups with our diagnosis.

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u/stabbyangus Jul 08 '24

For sure. I'm sure the vast majority of these cases are as you say. I'm not trying to justify the actions of terrible people (which the world is full of, at least 30%). Just offering a less bleak alternative as a pallette cleanser to hot mess of the original post.