Men Leave Sick Wives
An oncology nurse confirms what I’ve seen in my life
When you’re a woman who wants to be single, someone will inevitably bring up sickness. Who will take care of you when you’re sick?
Well, the answer is…your husband might just leave you anyway. I have long seen this in my own life, and suspected it. But there seems to be a lot of evidence out there that supports this.
TikTok user @jennifergarnerofficial discusses how, when a wife has cancer, it’s common for the husband to bail, and oncology nurses are all well aware.
“He will leave her when she is sick, dying of cancer,” she says in her video. And she’s not the only one who has complained about this.
“My sister had stage four cancer and her ex husband complained about her not doing her part to clean up. I will never forget that for as long as I live.” — Christie Sanchez said in a now-deleted tweet that made it to a Guardian article. Her stepdad also tapped out of his marriage to her mother when her health declined.
And these are not just anecdotes: Science backs it up. A study in 2009 showed that men were seven times more likely to leave their sick partner than the other way around.
The study concluded that “Female gender was found to be a strong predictor of partner…
