Divorce, American Style

• An article on ABC News about a spike in divorces this time of year caught our eye yesterday, but it was the first two sentences that really captured our hearts.
• The article discussed the fact that January in both the United States and the U.K. is divorce month.
• The pressure of the holidays, too much celebration booze, hard-to-handle families prove a toxic cocktail to many marriages and the New Year proves a popular time to call it quits and start fresh.
• The first Monday after New Years is such a busy day for divorce lawyers that, in Britain, it’s simply known as “D-Day.”
• But we loved Donna, the woman who told her particular story to ABC News. And we quote:
• “Friday, barely 10 days after making a New Year’s resolution, Donna is going to see her therapist about divorcing her husband of six years. ‘Emotions run high around the holidays,’ said the 56-year-old California businesswoman, who did not want her full name used because she hasn’t yet broken the news to her husband.”
• Yes, you read that correctly. The lovely soon-to-be divorcee Donna found no problem telling a national news source she was leaving her husband *before* she told her husband.
• More Donna about her Merry Christmas: “I didn’t want to give my husband or anybody on his side of the family any hope. I completely ignored him. I knew that right after New Year’s, I was going to have a fresh start.”
• The divorce rate in the United States is one of the highest in the world, at 3.6 divorces per 1,000 inhabitants. [Washington Post]
• The second most popular time of year to get divorced? September, right after the kiddies go back to school.

http://miccheckradio.org/issues/2008/january/11/watercooler_sensation#15700

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My wife is looking at me funny lately.

You see, I watched Cher's Farewell Tour on TV a while back and 
I just went over deep end again about Cher. Sure, I knew she was talented 
in so many ways, but I never saw her in person or on a video.

Geez, I even paid full price when I ordered the Farewell Tour video. 
Frankly, I fell in love with Cher again when she said in the show, 
"I've been a fucking Diva for 40 fucking years!" and when talking about 
Britney Spears and her group she said "Take this, bitches!"

Anyway, this returned fantasy lover may cause a divorce if I'm not careful.

Here is a very cool Cher video:   
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgAYmmx0NzE&feature=related

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