Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site timeinc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!amd!pesnta!phri!timeinc!greenber From: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Anti-rape tactics - a conundrum Message-ID: <337@timeinc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 20-Jul-85 23:55:51 EDT Article-I.D.: timeinc.337 Posted: Sat Jul 20 23:55:51 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 26-Jul-85 03:49:55 EDT References: <392@mit-vax.UUCP> <2432@sun.uucp> <330@timeinc.UUCP> <5517@tektronix.UUCP> Reply-To: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Organization: Time, Inc. - New York Lines: 48 In article <5517@tektronix.UUCP> moiram@tektronix.UUCP (Moira Mallison ) writes: (Quoting me): >> >>I just finished paying my ex-wife some money the courts decided >>she needed based on her sex, so maybe I'm not the right person to ask. >> > >Did the courts decide she needed it based or her sex, or was it because >you were out "jumping from ...firm to ...firm" so she didn't "have to >work". Just curious. > Interesting question. Since I just wrote the checks, and realized what that monatary amount does to my future plans, I may have written the above in haste. Allow me to explain a bit. I'm a freelance consultant, my ex was a freelance writer. I make pretty good money. She made virtually nothing, as she was just starting her career as a writer. So I opted to take up all the expenses for about six years. For a variety of reasons already discussed elsewhere, she walked out about a year ago, and I just signed the divorce/separation papers, and paid what I had to. She *could* have gotten a lot more based on, not the financial arrangement we had established but the fact that I had been supporting her. If the situation had been reversed, my counsel assures me, *I* could not have gotten anything from her: after all, I would have been a man working fulltime (and not making it) and I would have voluntarily left my wife. So if the tables had been reversed, I *still* would not have seen any benefit. This, I hope, answers your question. The rest is too personal, I'm afraid... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ross M. Greenberg @ Time Inc, New York --------->{vax135 | ihnp4}!timeinc!greenber<--------- I highly doubt that Time Inc. would make me their spokesperson. ---- "I was riding a wombat this morning, 'till it broke its leg. I had to shoot it" -- Ranger on Camel