Why is that such a common thing? While there are certainly people in other generations who have bad marriages and go through bitter divorces, spouse hatred seems so much less common among other generations...
Why is that such a common thing? While there are certainly people in other generations who have bad marriages and go through bitter divorces, spouse hatred seems so much less common among other generations...
My purely anecdotal impression is that divorce didn't become an viable option (culturally) until the Silent generation, and even then it was still fairly scandalous. In some backwaters, divorce was probably scandalous into the 80s, I'd guess? Certainly the 70s. So the Boomers were soaked in this attitude of "I hate my spouse" for much of their lives. In my opinion, the "hate my spouse" schtick peaked with the G.I. Generation, which was basically one big untreated ball of PTSD.