Jessie Stephens

It also signals to people, I want you to take your shoes off.

It makes an awkward thing about whether or not they.

There is an essay published in The Cut that is currently going viral.

It is called The Women Quietly Quitting Their Husbands.

Monica Corcoran Harrell writes, rather than deal with the drama of divorce, more and more women over 40 are choosing to check out.

I assumed that this would be a story about money, that it would be we can't afford to get divorced anymore.

But that was not what the author found at all.

Really, these women say that they just don't have time.

they're subconsciously uncoupling, maybe waiting for the kids to leave home.

And maybe that's not entirely new.

She writes about remembering as a kid, there was a year where her mother didn't speak to her father.

And then he turned around one day and said, is there a problem?

I love that so much.

It looks like some people don't live together, so they're living on opposite sides of the country.

That's not so quiet.

That's not so quiet.

Living or sleeping in a guest bedroom.

Not really talking, definitely not going out together or anything like that.

Some people open it up.

That's middling.