Ruth Institute Blog

Marriages face many challenges.  One of the most common challenges is financial.

But if you believe in lifelong married love, then, for heaven’s sakes, DON’T LISTEN TO SUZE ORMAN.  Here’s what Dr. Helen Smith had to say:

Well, Suze Orman is back at it again, playing the henpecking man-hater who tells women to get divorced from their husbands for making what she perceives to be financial mistakes. I thought she had started to recover from her man-hating, sexist ways, but I was wrong. I watched last night’s show (Sat, Feb. 27th) and she had on Andrea, a real winner of a wife who met with Suze to basically castrate her husband, Joe, without his even being present. Ms. Orman stated that Joe was supposed to be on the show, but decided not to show. Gee, I wonder why?

Could it be that he knew that this man-hating show would pit his wife and Orman against him and he didn’t have a prayer? Perhaps. Joe’s crime? He dared to want to go back to law school in his forties and his wife made more money than him. It seems that wife Andrea makes $120,000 per year and poor Joe only makes $90,000. Joe has little in retirement and was in the military,then went to film school and now, (gasp!) wants to go to law school. Okay, so what? If it was a woman, she would be told to fulfill her dreams. Joe is castrated by these two man-haters as a pathetic loser who is going to lose his marriage if he can’t step back in line.

Orman and the wife ooze their disgust on national television while Orman gives Joe a lecture on what a loser he is (see pic above). Repeatedly calling him by his first name, she sounded like Keith Olbermann’s “Worst Person In The World” segment. He was not there to defend himself, nor have I ever seen a man defend himself on Orman’s show. Do they not dare or are they not allowed?

Orman should be ashamed of herself.  According to Smith’s husband Glenn Reynolds she’s “always telling women they should consider a divorce; it’s as if she’s got something against marriage.”

This reminds me of something that Dr. J commented about the equally appalling Oprah Winfrey.  When Bristol Palin declared her desire to remain celibate until she got married, she got nothing but discouragement from Oprah for similarly politically incorrect goal.

Incidentally, Dr. Helen Smith, who reported the above story is neither a religious fundamentalist nor anti gay marriage (like I am on both counts).  Yet she is sufficiently fair to condemn this type of misandry when she sees it.

To be fair to Orman, law school is often a mistake.  But sometimes, it’s a financial bonanza.  Joe is not a statistic.  He’s a person.   Perhaps he will make the best of his law school career.  Who is Orman to suggest divorce?

The comments in this link are also helpful.  Shame on you Suze Orman!

As a final thought I ask you this:  would Joe be justified in seeking a divorce seeing as how his wife went on national television to have her husband professionally humiliated by this Orman harpy?  I say he is.  I can think of very few things a wife can do that are more damaging to a marriage than having her husband humiliated in this way.