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Ok, I get it. When your marriage doesn’t work out, you want to blame someone, something, maybe ANYTHING. But Facebook? Really?
Well, apparently so. Increasingly so.
So says a recent survey in the UK done by a website called Divorce Online. Not only do many couples cite Facebook as one of the primary reasons for their divorce, the number of couples calling it quits and blaming the beheometh social networking cite is increasing each year.
Private messaging. Spouses are using the site to spy on each other. They are looking up High School flings….. but apparently none of these marriages would fall apart without the aid of Facebook.
I’m not buying it. What say you?
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Couples with more have more to fight over?
It seems a bit counter-intuitive, but a new study reveals that couples with more money fight more … about, you guessed it, money.
And despite the lives of the rich and wanna-be-famous, alá The Real Housewives, being glamorized everywhere you look, it turns out that, quite literally, as Kait Smith of YourTango points out, ”Money can’t buy you love.”
It will come as no surprise that the real culprit in causing marital strife is materialism and how each of the people in the relationship view the money. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that if you or your partner is more interested in your stuff than one another — there are some serious problems.
Happily, there is an antidote that is free, easily obtained, and can help cure your materialism issues! Continue reading »
Scott Evans Dekraai has been arrested as the alleged shooter in the mass killing in Seal Beach.
Salon Meritage was a place Seal Beach, California, locals went to touch up their roots or get a fresh new look. Until yesterday.
Police have arrested Scott Evans De Kraai in the deadliest shooting in the history of Orange County, California. De Kraai, 42, was wearing a bulletproof vest when he entered the salon and opened fire, killing eight people, including his ex-wife Michelle De Kraai.
Neighbors of the couple say their divorce had been a nasty one, and USA Today reports that Michelle and “… her ex-husband were involved in a bitter custody dispute over their son.” Apparently, they had been divorced for several years and Scott Evans De Kraai had since remarried.
“Till death do us part” may soon be revised to “Till this contract expires” for couples getting married in Mexico’s capital.
Mexico City’s progressive legislature is looking to bring down the local divorce rate with a radical proposition: setting a time limit on marriages. Instead of making a life commitment to one another, you can sign on for as little as two years, or as long a time as you like. You’ll have the option to renew your vows, of course.
Half of all marriages end in divorce, and most are over within two years. Shortening the term of a marriage contract gives unhappy spouses a way out while (hopefully) making less paperwork for the courts. But is this really a good idea?
One couple that, in my opinion, is doing it right.
Okay, so, yes. Yes, I watched the Dancing With The Stars two-hour premiere last night and I am going to watch tonight to see who gets kicked off.
I guess the hype got to me.
One of the main things I noted during last night’s show, aside from the fact that my fierce hatred for she-devil Nancy Grace was solidified, was the fact that Courteney Cox and daughter Coco showed up to cheer on David Arquette as he waltzed across the dance floor.
Wait. Aren’t they separated? Why, yes. Yes they are. So why is she on the show cheering him on? Because she’s an adult and the mother of his child, that’s why. Continue reading »
Sometimes, when a marriage falls apart, you just want to go home. This might be especially true if you moved for your partner in the first place: if you’re in an unfamiliar city far from family and friends, the appeal of returning home to your own support network is compelling.
Add in the stress of living in a foreign country, and you can see why you’d be booking the first flight home after something as life-shattering as a divorce. For some ex-pat parents, staying in the foreign country they’ve been living in may not even be an option if they were totally dependent on their partner there.
For some parents, though, it just got harder to take the kids back with you. A British court has just ruled that a Canadian woman cannot return to Canada with her two children following her divorce, because the distance from their father would be too great a detriment to the kids.
A document that provides the security of a million hugs.
Only my 2-year-old son Earl was born in wedlock. My two daughters, now 10 and 6, were sitting in the backseat of the family car when their father and I tied the knot. You can read about our nuptials here, but the short version is that we got married because that was the only way the State of California would cover me, (female) parent of the children they had no problem insuring.
My son, remember, the non-bastard child, is the best sleeper of the brood. He’s also the most cheerful, open to hugging grandparents and babysitters and other children in a way our two girls never were at his age. He loves brushing his teeth, a habit of hygiene that took us years to get his sisters to do voluntarily. Brother Earl eats veggies like a champ.
He’s a good kid, my son. There’s no accounting for the differences between him and his sisters, other than he was born into the security of a documented commitment between his father and me, an agreement that we would form an economic and emotional partnership. My poor girls had to spend the first months or years of life never knowing if, in a legal sense, Daddy was going to come home that night. Continue reading »
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