To think he will just do the same thing to her?

[LaurelAndMardy]

I overheard a woman talking to her friends about her boyfriend (ok maybe I was eavesdropping on the train). She said he was getting divorced and was going to sell his business for £1 to a friend so he could give less money to his wife in the divorce. (Would this even work??) Anyway she found this funny and was then talking about how much his kids liked her etc. I was thinking well he’ll probably do the same to you when you split, don’t get involved.

Am I too much of a cynic? Or is she naive for thinking he will be different with her? Obviously I don’t know anything about the marriage, i’m just a nosy passenger!

Well if she is foolish enough to think that the courts won’t see through that financial game, she is foolish enough to believe anything.

It's not cynical to recognise that abuse is a deliberate pattern of behaviour that will continue.

Well you don’t know what the wife was like, do you? She might be the loveliest person alive or she could be a complete cow

No it doesn’t mean he would do the same thing at all I think that’s a cynical view to take

Off course they will, leopards never change their spots.

It's like those that take full advantage of their spouses using every tax advantage in the book whist they are together than get cross when it means they get little child support after a split.