I think the answers from Dalrock and RPL have led to the following analysis about female divorce fantasy and hamsterization:

In real life, a woman may know 40 divorced women. Of those, 2 are doing well, and 38 are much worse off (5% vs. 95%).

But in the entertainment media, the woman may know another 100 women, all of whom are portrayed as benefiting greatly from divorce. So 100 out of 100.

Now here is the key : Women lack the mental capacity to distinguish between TV/films and reality.

Hence, they just add the two figures above. They know of (100 + 2) = 102 women who did well after divorce, and just 38 who are doing badly. So she things that 102/140 = 73% are doing well, and that creates a perception that the has a 3 out of 4 chance of benefiting from divorce.

Hey, the real world only has 5% of women improving their lives after divorce, but once you add a flood of fictitious divorce-fantasy examples from the entertainment media, the perception of 73% comes in.

That is why woman after woman destroys her life (and that of others) despite there being so many women before her who failed – she lets the TV examples cloud her assessment of real-world probabilities. That is how the female hamster takes a 5% chance and turns it into a ~75% chance.