Concerning Divorce
Concerning Divorce
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realizing this incompatibility, he did not seek an
immediate separation. In spite of severe mental
torture he tried to bear with this situation for ten
years. He refers to this period as one of “darkest
despair.” Finally he had to separate and remarry,
but he was not satisfied even with the second match
and he married for a third time. Two divorces were
a costly bargain. According to English law, the
amount of alimony and maintenance he had to pay
his wives upset him greatly. He writes in his
Autobiography:
…the financial burden was heavy and rather
disturbing: I had given Pounds 10,000 of my
Nobel Prize cheque for a little more than Pounds
11,000 to my third wife, and I was now paying
alimony to her and to my second wife as well as
paying for the education of my younger son.
Added to this, there were heavy expenses in
connection with my elder son’s illness; and the
income taxes which for many years he had
neglected to pay now fell to me to pay.
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Such a law had been passed in order to ensure
justice for women who had to resort to divorce. But
