Our Time: Divorce after 50 signals change for women
By JANE GLENN HAAS The Orange County Register Published: Monday, Jun. 28, 2010 - 7:50 am
I can still hear my mother's voice on the other end of the phone the morning after I told my husband I wanted a divorce.
"Why are you getting divorced?" mom asked.
"Because I'm not happy," I said.
"Whoever told you that you were entitled to be happy?" she replied.
That was in the 1970s when boomer women with economic independence sent divorce rates soaring. Unlike our mothers, we felt we were indeed entitled to be happy.