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Life's Short, Dump Your Wife

Posted by Faith Eggers on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 10:00am

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.

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