Drew, 53 and a police sergeant in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook, just resigned after being named a suspect in the disappearance of Stacy, his fourth wife. Stacy, 23, was last seen October 28, and authorities are now calling the case a potential homicide.

Peterson says he believes his wife has left him for another man, and so has no plans to look for her. "Why would I look for somebody who I don't believe is missing?" he told NBC's "Today" this week. "She's just gone. She's where she wants to be."

Also, Drew said Stacy had asked him for a divorce, but he wrote it off as a case of female hormones in overdrive. "I'm not trying to be funny, but Stacy would ask me for divorce after her sister died [of cancer] on a regular basis," Peterson said. "It was based on her menstrual cycle."

Speaking of asking for a divorce, the interview aired a day after the body of Peterson's third wife, Kathleen Savio, was exhumed in Illinois as authorities look for clues about how she died.

Savio was found dead of a head wound in her bathtub in 2004, just before the couple's divorce settlement was finalized. The death was ruled an accidental drowning, but investigators now say evidence suggests foul play was involved.

On "Today," Drew had a message for Stacy: "Come home," he said. "Tell people where you are." We've got a message for Drew: Good luck.

"Back in 1990, if you had divorce or separation in your background, you weren't allowed to speak [in churches]," says Michelle was married to Joe in 1982. Despite their faith, the two insist that religion alone is not enough to sustain marriage.

"We were told that as long as we were both going to church and both praying and both Christians, that our marriage would be saved," Michelle says. "But that's not true. It takes much more to save a marriage."

The problem, says Joe, was that "our focus was on each other instead of God."

For Michelle, "I would say the major issue was that I didn't know how to communicate my frustrations to Joe. I would tend to stuff things, and Joe did, too."

"The biggest thing I want people to know is that even if their spouse is unwilling to work on the marriage, they can take the tools we use and totally change their marriage, because it changes the dynamics in the home," Michelle says.

Added Joe, "The people we work with usually have the issue I call ‘she-he'. She does this and he does that. The husbands work and provide and then divide because their focus is their wife — they want their wife to be happy, and they don't focus on God. If they focus on God, the happiness will be a byproduct."

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Welcome to the National Teishu-Kampaku Association — or the Chauvinistic Husbands Association — where buttoned-up Japanese businessmen are making these culturally uncharacteristic vows in an effort to save their faltering marriages.

Shuichi Amano, a magazine editor by trade, started the group back in 1999 after attempting his own last ditch effort to save a marriage of more than 20 years.

Along the way he stumbled upon a social phenomenon in which a growing number of Japanese women have begun suing their husbands for divorce once the men retire. The aim of the women, apparently, is to bring an end to longstanding marital problems caused by the
indifference of their husbands.

"Many husbands are making a living managing risks at their businesses, but they neglect the ones at home," Amano, 55.

"The old ways don't work anymore and we husbands have to get out of our little fantasy of having ultimate power over our wives. We have to show our ability to change ourselves for the sake of our marriage," he
said.

Through his own experience and interviews with women, Amano discovered that, with women, everything boils down to their desire to hear their husbands repeatedly say "three magic phrases:" "Thank you," "Sorry," and "I love you."

Amano describes his technique — while is presently being used by over 4,000 Japanese men — as "smileage," or husbands fostering the goodwill of their wives.

Smileage. That's our new favorite word.

The office of France's new President, Nicolas Sarkozy, yesterday announced his separation from wife Cecilia. The Associated Press took the opportunity to note some other break ups in the history of great men:

In 1996, a judge granted Nelson Mandela a divorce because his wife, Winnie, had been unfaithful. The South African president had separated from her in 1992 after she was convicted and fined in her bodyguards' kidnapping of four kids.

Andreas Papandreou, Greece's late prime minister, left his wife in the late 80s, when he was about 70, after having an affair with a 35-year-old flight attendant. He later divorced his wife and married the flight attendant, Dimitra Liani.

Argentinian president Carlos Menem locked his wife, Zulema Yoma de Menem, out of the presidential residence in 1990 after she knocked his policies one too many times. On one occasion while he was out, she invited journalists over for a barbecue to roast him and his leadership. She later filed for divorce, accusing Menem of adultery. Menem married former Miss Universe Cecilia Bolocco of Chile in 2001, but announced this May that they had separated — after photographs were published of her sunbathing topless with an Italian friend in Miami.

Our favorite, though, is the story of Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, who cut off water and power to the quarters of his wife, Susana Higuchi, and stripped her of the title of first lady in 1994 after she accused him of tolerating widespread corruption in his administration. He said she was disloyal, as well as "unstable and easily influenced" by his political foes.

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All the usual suspects are listed like "Kramer vs. Kramer," "The First Wives Club," "Irreconcilable Differences," and our all-time fave, "The War of the Roses."

She also devilishly includes Mike Nichols' "Closer," which challenges even the most steadfast romantic, and the equally bleak "We Don't Live Here Anymore." Her top pick, though, "The Squid and the Whale," is a realistic yet heartening depiction of new relationships emerging from the wreckage of old and dying ones — the best you can hope for from a divorce.

Still, there are countless films that brilliantly capture either the harsh realities of splitting, or help us to laugh at the whole affair. While it doesn't explicitly deal with divorce per se, "Reversal of Fortune" perfectly captures the dark complexity of decaying relationships.

We're always a sucker for the cold urbanity of Woody Allen's "Husbands and Wives." Then, on the lighter side, there's the adorable Dick van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds in the late 60s' classic "Divorce American Style."

Tell us your top picks. Jim Carrey in "Liar, Liar"? Schwarzenegger in "True Lies"? What will it be?

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Take our favorite kvetcher, Larry David, who friends insist has never been happier. His wife, environmental crusader Laurie, left him this summer — after 14 years of marriage — for the contractor who worked on the couple's Martha's Vineyard estate.

"Since she left, he is a different man," sources tell The New York Post. "He is so happy. It's like a weight has been lifted off of his shoulders."

It must be the weight of saving the world. After all, Laurie's impassioned activism inspired her to produce Al Gore's Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." As anyone will tell you, misanthropy and philanthropy just don't mix.

Still, the "Curb Your Enthusiasm" star has his grumpy image to uphold. "I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word happy has ever crossed my lips," he tells The Post. "I am not now, nor have I ever been, ‘happy.'" We know, Larry. We know.

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As we dished yesterday, British heiress Stephanie Allen is in the process of divorcing Tony because he and The Lohan allegedly got too close at the Cirque Lodge clinic in Utah last month.

This week, Stephanie — whose family makes billions making McDonald's boxes — filed an affidavit claiming the "defendant's conduct with another woman" has lead to the union being "irretrievably broken."

But, Lohan's people are screaming bull. "It's unfortunate Stephanie Allen is blaming the demise of her marriage on Lindsay," her rep told US magazine. "Stephanie needs to look at her marriage to determine the reason why things went wrong because it has nothing to do with Lindsay. Lindsay and Tony are friends and that's all. They are supporting one another through a similar experience. This is a friendship based on trust and mutual support and nothing else."

Officially, Tony is denying the rumors. "We're great friends. We share a common affliction, and we just talk about life sometimes."

Off the record, though, one report has the Tony bragging about the celebrity conquest in typical rock star fashion. "C'mon, it's Lindsay Lohan. Hell, yes! Wouldn't you?"

For the record, we have to point out how pandering handlers contribute to their celebrity client's addictions and general bad behavior. The solution? Get rid of the enabling reps, and let Stephanie and Lohan — uh — "talk" it out.

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Remember the British grandmother we told you about several months back? The plucky 51-year-old who decided to marry Osama bin Laden's youngest son, 25 years her junior?

Well, thinks didn't work out. Under the threat of murder and the disapproval of Osama's influential Saudi family, Jane Felix-Browne has thrown in the towel and decided to divorce the 26-year-old Omar.

"We are both in fear of our lives," she tells the British paper the Sun. "It was a really, really good marriage, a strong marriage," she says. "But I cannot stand by and watch my beloved husband die before my very eyes. I love him enough to let him go. I want him and his son, who is just three, to return to as normal a life as possible.

According to Jane, Osama's family had been humiliated by their marriage, and were threatening to have Omar imprisoned in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he runs his scrap metal dealership.

In a desperate move to save their marriage, Jane, a Parish councilor from Moulton, Cheshire, wrote to Saudi Arabia's king last week for help, but has received no reply.

"I will never marry again," Jane says. "My heart will always be with Omar and I will take my love for him to the grave."

We would have loved for dear old Jane to get her happy ending. But, as Shakespeare illustrated so well in Romeo and Juliet, sometimes outside forces do triumph over — well, if not love, than at least good sex with a wealthy 26-year-old.

Next to his wife of 38 years, Romney's wholesome, Norman Rockwell-esque image stands in stark contrast to that of Giuliani, who suffered a very public divorce from second wife, Donna Hanover a few years ago, while still involved with his twice divorced wife Judi.

Still, only 9% of Americans say a divorce would make them less likely to vote for a presidential candidate, according to a Pew Research poll cited by the Monitor. Ronald Reagan, considered a god by most conservatives, was a divorced man. And the percentage who claim "old-fashioned values about family and marriage" has declined, dropping over the past two decades from 87% to 76%.

Like Hollywood, Washington is a funny place where the reflection of our social mores is often contorted as if by a funhouse mirror. And Giuliani's high-paid contortionists are no doubt doing their best to keep voters focused on issues other than personal history. Not to say there's anything un-American about divorce. But, you have to ask: Without Giuliani's personal history and skeletons, would Americans have been introduced to Barack Obama, let alone considered electing him to the highest office in the land?

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