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This American Ex-Wife How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

Lyz Lenz

NEW YORK TIMES Studies show that nearly 70 percent of divorces are initiated by women—women who are tired, fed up, exhausted, and unhappy. We’ve all seen how the media portrays divorcées: sad, lonely, drowning their sorrows in a bottle of wine. Lyz Lenz is one such woman whose life fell apart after...

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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

It was described as a validating manifesto on gender politics in marriage and divorce, detailing how the author's husband neglected household chores and hid her belongings he disliked, like a mug.

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For example, a mug that said, 'Write Like a Motherfucker' in a box in the basement. 'I didn't want to waste my one wild and precious life telling a grown man where to find the ketchup,' Lenz writes. W...

— Episode: The Karol Markowicz Show: The Good Ole B...

Episode: The Karol Markowicz Show: The Good Ole Blogging Da...

It was described as a validating manifesto on gender politics in marriage and divorce, detailing how the author's husband neglected household chores and hid her belongings he disliked, like a mug.

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For example, a mug that said, 'Write Like a Motherfucker' in a box in the basement. 'I didn't want to waste my one wild and precious life telling a grown man where to find the ketchup,' Lenz writes. What was compelling about my marriage wasn't its evils or its villains, but its commonplace horror.

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