Men who are married to or heavily involved with women are six times more likely to leave their partners if they, the women, develop cancer than women are to leave sick husbands.
Anecdotally, this appears to even hold true if the woman had been going to leave before the husband became sick.
Hell, I've even heard lots of stories about women devoting time and energy to caring for sick or elderly exes or their ex's sick or elderly parents, including in my own family*, but I've rarely if ever heard about men doing the same for their ex wives or ex inlaws.
* To be fair, while my uncle's ex-wife devoted a lot of time to my grandparents, nobody put more time into their care than he did. Eldercare almost always falls to daughters and daughters-in-law, and he deserves the credit for the work he did caring for his parents as they aged. But he had help, and that help was my aunt, and while his work caring for my grandparents was admirable it's not as though he reciprocated her help by caring for her parents as well.
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Anecdotally, this appears to even hold true if the woman had been going to leave before the husband became sick.
Hell, I've even heard lots of stories about women devoting time and energy to caring for sick or elderly exes or their ex's sick or elderly parents, including in my own family*, but I've rarely if ever heard about men doing the same for their ex wives or ex inlaws.
* To be fair, while my uncle's ex-wife devoted a lot of time to my grandparents, nobody put more time into their care than he did. Eldercare almost always falls to daughters and daughters-in-law, and he deserves the credit for the work he did caring for his parents as they aged. But he had help, and that help was my aunt, and while his work caring for my grandparents was admirable it's not as though he reciprocated her help by caring for her parents as well.