A seasoned divorce attorney has shared insights into the type of person most likely to go through a divorce. While everyone dreams of a lifelong partnership, various factors can derail this, leading to separation.
In the realm of divorce, attorneys witness the myriad reasons couples part ways. While financial issues and infidelity are common culprits, a lawyer suggests another factor could be as simple as one’s occupation.
KK, a family lawyer with over 13 years of experience, uses her TikTok account @attykkl to discuss the professions she believes women should avoid if they wish to secure a stable marriage. Although it’s not official legal counsel, she highlights five jobs that, from her experience, often signal trouble.
She observes: “What I noticed among these five professions is that they tend to be more narcissistic, they tend to be more controlling. They tend to be far more difficult in dealing with a divorce. They have kind of a ‘nuke the earth, you know, scorch the earth, how dare you challenge me’ kind of approach to litigation.”
While these careers may not seem interconnected, KK points out that they all involve positions of authority.
“They all have in common that the men in these professions, they’re gods in their profession, right?” she rhetorically questions.
For instance, she mentions: “You’re a policeman, you’re walking around with a gun, you’re walking around with authority.” Such authority can create friction at home, where dynamics differ.
KK points out the challenge of transitioning from workplace respect to domestic responsibilities: “Everybody treats you with respect. Then you come home and all of a sudden somebody’s asking you to take out the trash. I think that that’s a difficult kind of transition to make.”
Surgeons, KK notes, face similar issues: “If you’re a surgeon, you’re walking around the hospital… you’re in charge,” she explains.
She also identifies pilots as prone to these dynamics due to their significant responsibilities: “They’re in control of like 150-200 people’s lives at a time. They are treated with a tremendous amount of respect and they have a lot of responsibility. And they tend to be very narcissistic and very controlling.”
Despite her observations, KK advises against assuming these roles guarantee marital failure: “If you’re married to somebody in any one of these professions, it doesn’t mean that you’re doomed to fail.” She acknowledges that exceptions exist in any data set.