This whole Al Gore-getting-a-divorce thing has me pissed off. He and Tipper “grew apart”…what does that mean? My wife and I married 33 years ago; We met in an elevator on January 15th, 1977 and married in a civil service on April 15th, 1977. We powered through some very difficult times, not the least of which was three teenage girls in the 90s. <\/p>\n
We ran out of things to talk about at times. Eleven years ago we were in virtual poverty (something Al Gore hasn’t experienced, I’m sure) when we moved to DC, then took off on our separate careers from our tiny apartment in Northeast.<\/p>\n
For more than three years, we didn’t see each other from Sunday night until Friday afternoon each week because of our hours. We piled our money away until, finally, it didn’t make sense for her to work because her wages equaled our taxes, so she quit being a nurse at Walter Reed and we moved to Silver Spring, MD to a bigger and cheaper apartment. I began telecommuting 3 times every week and we were home together all of the time, almost. Still no problems.<\/p>\n
This year we took our pile of cash and bought our first house and suddenly we had to take care of stuff landlords always worried about before. Luckily, we had a pile of cash with which to employ the entire state of West Virginia. Neither of us are contemplating divorce.<\/p>\n
Divorce is a tool of the young – a selfish tool to perpetuate their youths. (Yeah, I know, so yell at me.)<\/p>\n