The 100% True Story of the Day my Wife learned about MRAs

[CBGLuthier]

We were taking our walk this morning and the conversation turned towards the fact that her two oldest sisters were raised by their father (not her father) because he had sought and won custody on the grounds that he was an electrical engineer and she was a barmaid.

We talked about how this man who made $600.00 a week (this was the 60's) gave her $40.00 a week for all expenses related to groceries and their two children including clothing them. He felt they should make do and wear hand me downs and all that. Eventually he started hitting her to make his point and that was when she had enough.


So I mentioned to her that some people claim that men get the short end of the stick in custody cases but that is because they do not factor in that most men do not want custody and that when a man wants custody he usually has the power to make it happen.

I told her these people were MRAs; Men's Rights Activists.

She burst out laughing and continued to laugh for about 20 seconds. She had never heard of them and the mere thought of such a thing struck her as one of the silliest things she had ever heard.

We both had a good laugh, shook our heads, and moved on to other topics.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. and the two sisters? How are they doing these days? I hope all is well with them. I am sorry

that their mother had to go through all that.

[CBGLuthier]

2. Well, that was kind of what started the discussion

Her oldest sister turned out incredibly well. She left America in the 70's settled in Switzerland. Became involved in IT at banks and rose to a very high position before retiring to the island of Mauritius.

However the second one turned out differently. She resented her mother, accusing her of abandoning her, married a RW racist jackass and is the pariah of the family in all things political. She is so consumed with hate we fear there will be an early death.

My wife's next older sister, the third of the girls, did not find out until she was in her 20's that her father was the same as the older one's and not my wife's father. So their mother did manage to raise one of the first guy's children. She too has had a lot of success in her life.

For completeness's sake, there are six of the sisters. Three older than my wife. One the exact same age (her twin), and one younger. The youngest was 14 when their mother died and was raised by the oldest. She too turned out very successful in the field of corporate accounting and recently had her first child and is very happy in her life.

There was one boy in the bunch. Between the two oldest ones.We don't talk about him much because of the things he did to his sisters. I will leave it at that as he is dead and gone and there is no reason to bring up the ugly things.

Mary, that was my late mother-in law's name, was one hell of a woman and we named our youngest after her.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. Thanks for sharing, CBGLuthier.

[ismnotwasm]

4. Wow