They list the following reasons:

* Lack of commitment to the marriage
* Lack of communication between spouses
* Infidelity
* Abandonment
* Alcohol Addiction
* Substance Abuse
* Physical Abuse
* Sexual Abuse
* Emotional Abuse
* Inability to manage or resolve conflict
* Personality Differences or ‘irreconcilable differences’
* Differences in personal and career goals
* Financial problems
* Different expectations about household tasks
* Different expectations about having or rearing children
* Interference from parents or in-laws
* Lack of maturity
* Intellectual Incompatibility
* Sexual Incompatibility
* Insistence of sticking to traditional roles and not allowing room for personal growth
* Falling out of love
* Religious conversion or religious beliefs
* Cultural and lifestyle differences
* Inability to deal with each other’s petty idiosyncrasies
* Mental Instability or Mental Illness
* Criminal behavior and incarceration for crime

This is about my husband’s divorce from his previous wife. For four long years, this divorce drug on. My husband, Michael, was married to this woman for 25 years, they had NO children, and she only had sex with him 6 times in 25 years. He had three affairs during the marriage – one which was with me.

Michael was worth 3.5 million when this divorce began, and one year ago he filed bankruptcy. He has paid her in excess of $100,000 in alimony during the period up until the divorce was granted, as well as gave her all of the equity in the marital home so that she might have a place to live, he gave her a vehicle – also paid for – and she kept all of the furnishings in the marital home which totalled in excess of $60,000. Her home, her vehicle, her furnishings…all are paid in full. He was ordered to pay her alimony FOR LIFE of $1,000 a month, which after he went bankrupt, is one-half of his take home pay.

She has two doctors that say she is sick and cannot work, yet she has moved another man into her home, who is working, might I add, and her lawyer and the judge are both well aware of it – but we didn’t *prove* it the last time we went to court. So we are stuck – with no assets, and one half of our monthly income goes to [Michael's ex-wife] each month. We have two young babies, a mortgage and car payment. She has nothing – except she did receive over half a million of Michaels assets that were left in bankruptcy court. So she came out of it with half a million PLUS the alimony for life, and she’s got a new man to boot. He has been living with her for over a year now.

So that’s the story. This occured in Madison County, Tennessee, with Judge Morris (who happens to [have a very close relationship] with HER lawyer, Jimmy Butler).

[Michelle believes that people involved with the case have gotten a financial kickback as part of the legalized robbery of her husband.] Can’t prove it yet, but I am working on it. I am also writing a book about this case along with others that will be finished sometime this year.

Michele J. Johnson