Researchers say that the divorce rate for people in their 50's, 60's, and even 70's are increasing at an almost rapid rate and are dubbing these divorces, the "gray divorce" — as opposed to the silver anniversary.

And just when you thought that once you got over that 30-years-of-marriage hurdle you were in the clear. I don't know, I'd still be pretty hard pressed to imagine my grandmother and grandfather calling it quits after so many years of putting up with each other. Why would they?

One researcher suggests that as our life expectancy increases, there are more years to think of "putting up" in an unhappy marriage.

Divorce and family law attorney Carol Lindsay suggests that as a person ages there is a "vague longing." "Mortality is calling," she says, and sometimes people will feel a sense that they've missed out on something and try to make it up.

She does note that these "gray divorces" are sometimes nicer, as older couples will sometimes show "more maturity" and be "graceful" in the way they handle their divorce. Also, rarely are there the gut-wrenching, bitter, custody battles that are so common when younger couples divorce.

So, it seems that we can say again, divorce can effect everyone, divorce doesn't discriminate. Click here for more.

I opened my front door this morning and was immediately confronted by the newspaper with a headline that screamed "Eliot Mess — Spitzer liaison with prostitute caught on wiretap" with this picture below it.

I can think of quite a few things to say about my feelings on his affair, but for now, I think the papers are covering that quite well. What nobody seems to focus on is his poor wife, Silda. I looked at that photo of her today, and my heart broke. She looks so sad.

Can you imagine for a second how humiliating it must be to be the wife of the Governor that just got busted for prostitution? Talk about no privacy.

I suppose that if she wants someone to talk to, someone who could truly understand her position, she has several options. Starting with Hilliary Clinton. We all remember what she went through with Bill, Monica, and the infamous blue dress.

Then there's Wendy Vitter, wife of David Vitter, a senator in Louisiana, who interestingly enough, had this to say when asked if she would be as forgiving as Hillary were her husband caught having an affair: "I'm a lot more like Lorena Bobbitt than Hillary, if he does something like that, I'm walking away with one thing, and it's not alimony, trust me." Lucky for David, it seems she changed her mind.

And let's not forget Dina McGreevy, wife of New Jersey Governor James McGreevy, who resigned from his position after announcing that he is gay and was having an affair. They are getting divorced.

It seems that these type of affairs have happened all throughout history, but it also seems that things aren't quite what they used to be, in that people are not as forgiving or as quick to turn their heads.

I was doing some very focused research on the web a moment ago in regards to child support laws when I suddenly stumbled upon this website. Go ahead. Click it. You'll quickly understand why I'm not so focused anymore. For those who don't feel like being baited, it's called Dump Your Wife Now. No, I'm not kidding.

"Oh my" is pretty much all I can say about this. I mean, one of their tag lines is "Forget counseling, we are all you need to kick her to the curb." Another is "Turning Doormats into Men".

And so it goes. So this is what marriage has devolved into. One day we see billboards with scantly clad people proclaiming: "Life's Short. Get a Divorce" and the next we stumble upon this. After getting over the inital shock, all you're really left pondering is this: What is the point? What's next — will divorce attorneys soon redefine ambulance chasing into wedding chasing?

I have an idea that should save us all a bunch of time, heartache and money: Why not start hiring divorce attorneys to come to our weddings? They can hand us our divorce decree right after we walk down the aisle, and in turn we can hand them a few thousand dollars. OK, maybe they can do it after the party. After all, who doesn't like a party?

Seriously though, it really does seem a shame to me that something that once seemed so beautiful and sacred to us is so quickly being turned into just another thing that we can make a mockery of.