Saw today that RDS signed a law into effect that eliminates permanent alimony and women are going crazy. Now I haven’t read the law but I certainly agree with the premise. I have been divorced twice and didn’t pay alimony in either case. And I’m not going to debate the pros and cons, but the paragraph below is directly from the article I saw and it requires comment.

“On behalf of the thousands of women who our group represents, we are very disappointed in the governor’s decision to sign the alimony-reform bill. We believe by signing it, he has put older women in a situation which will cause financial devastation. The so-called party of ‘family values’ has just contributed to erosion of the institution of marriage in Florida,” Jan Killilea, a 63-year-old Boca Raton woman who founded the group a decade ago, told The News Service of Florida in a text message Friday.

Just consider the last sentence. The institution of marriage is endangered in Florida if a woman can’t spend a few years married and then sit on her ass and enjoy being a divorcee for the rest of her life. So that’s what women think marriage is? Listen there are many circumstances to consider when setting alimony but permanent should be few and far between.