Men on average wanted their ex-wife to keeps 19 items out of a list of 24 including the home,
photographs and
pets, while women wanted the men to get just eight. While women did not particularly want items including the
television, CDs, DVDs, and toaster, they were keen to see that their ex-husband did not get them.
McCoy polled 3,515 people in May and June. The poll found that men were keen for their ex-wife to keep items
including the bed, the television,
the wedding album, the lawnmower and garden accessories, house plants, the
coffee machine and the family pet. One item that men were determined to keep for themselves was the house -
32% wanted to keep it outright, compared with 30% who were happy to wholly hand it over to their ex-wife.
The
men also wanted the car, the laptop computer, digital camera and CD and DVD collections.
Half of the women wanted the family home outright, but even more, 64%, wanted the dog or cat. They were
happy for their
former husband to keep the bed, sofa, lawnmower, coffee machine, laptop, digital camera,
PlayStation and any wine and drinks they had. Ultimately 46% of the women did keep the house,
compared
with 29% of the men, with other couples selling.
Denise Knowles, a counselor, said: "These findings
reflect the hugely different emotional attachment that
divorcing men and women feel towards their shared possessions." Men are far keener
than women to put their
past behind them and want to move on, which is why they are happy to let their ex-wife keep almost of their
shared possessions - apart from those items that provide entertainment such as the car, digital camera and music
system. "Women, by contrast. Have a far greater emotional attachment
to their home and its contents, seeing
these things as the fabrics of their lives and things that should be preserved both for themselves and their
children as symbols of their history and life."
(Adapted from Essential Reading for IELTS)
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