My first wife wouldn't allow me to buy the one pin I wanted -- TAF. This was back in 2003 when they were going for $1500... When I divorced her in 2013, I bought a TAF for myself as a divorce present. I paid a little more than $1500... My 2nd wife pretended to like pinball until after we were married, and then wouldn't stop bitching about it (TAF is the only one I owned at the time). She also pretended to like my children until after we married, and then didn't want them around at all. Needless to say, I divorced her ass pretty quickly. The day we separated, she had a "change of heart" and all of a sudden LOVED pinball and thought my kids were really amazing (which they are). I didn't fall for it. Within a year of separation, I went from one pin to 13... IF I ever get remarried (and that's a GARGANTUAN "IF"!!), it'll be to someone who TRULY loves pinball, AND I'll have a rock-solid pre-nup. I'm a trial lawyer, and I knew I should have gotten one for the last wife, but I had certain leverage that I could have used had it gotten ugly. As it was, neither divorce cost me a dime. Both wives had seen me in court many times and knew it wasn't in their best interest to face me in that arena.

Truer words were never written. I represented my brother in his first divorce--my one and only family law case. I DESTROYED her in court and got a VERY good result for my brother, but not before she tried to ruin his career by falsely accusing him of downloading child pornography, stealing people's identities, and physically abusing her. She was eventually charged with filing a false police report, but the state dropped it since it was her first offense.

Agreed! He was (and still is) active duty Navy, which means Family Advocacy gets involved. If FAP substantiates, your career is over, and the only way to clear your name is to be acquitted at court-martial or convince FAP they're wrong (which almost never happens). His command fully supported him, so he was never going to court-martial. As a former active duty JAG, I dealt with FAP from both sides (command and service member). They're mostly zealots who ALWAYS believe the woman, no matter what. My brother got lucky to be investigated by the one reasonable FAP counselor in the Navy who quickly determined that he was telling the truth, and his wife was insane.

Agreed. The family law system, especially, is extremely biased against men. I was PISSED when the state dropped the charges, but I still used it to BURY her in court. Thankfully, they had no kids. She was asking for $4K/month PERMANENT alimony and attorney's fees. She got nothing.

Hahaha!! You must be military or former military! We use that term all the time!

My 2nd wife I knew for 14 months before we got married. I thought that was enough at our ages (then 36 and 44), but I was wrong. It was a total bait and switch. But for my kids and her forcing me to choose between her and them, I'd have stayed with her a bit longer because she was a TOTAL SMOKESHOW... But no matter how amazing the sex was (top 1%), I wasn't sacrificing my children.

IF I ever get re-married, it will be to someone I've known for YEARS AND YEARS... AND there'll be an ironclad pre-nup.

She convinced some such program that she'd been abused, so they found her a local attorney, but he asked for fees and the judge shut him down. The best part was, my brother's in-laws told him that they had the "greatest legal mind in Jacksonville" representing them. After it was over and we got a flawless victory, he told the father, "I guess you only had the SECOND greatest legal mind in Jacksonville..." Hahahaha!!

Funny, but wrong.

You get what you pay for. Lawyers are like doctors. Good ones are hard to find, and the bad ones can really fuck your life up.

That sucks for him. Hopefully she sold the business for a lot, since half would be his if it came to it.

The change in my 2nd wife was SO DRAMATIC I thought for sure it was a brain tumor. She got checked out at my insistence. Diagnosis came back: cancer-free; just a bitch.