It's a tragedy, not a transition. An article on google about gray dIvorce, came up yesterday. While, dIvorce is down among younger people, for boomers (are we surprised:/...

the splitting-up stats have about jumped.  It's one thing for a marriage to go bust when the individuals are in their 30s - there's still time to acquire, and pay off houses, and save atleast some funds toward retirement.  But at 50 or 60-something, that window is about shut.  All and all, the article - sadly - gives wives another reason to only trust their husbands within limits - and a solid reason for the wife to outsource the kids to strangers, while she goes to work.  And goes against her nature to claw her way up the ladder - not because of greed, but because a $18 an hour clerk job isn't realistically enough.  And neither is a promotion available just down any hallway.

As an aside, to get a promotion, you atleast have to almost lie about the great things you have done for your employer in your current or past job.  Uhm, almost lying is, uh, at least a bit uncomfortably close to lying.  But it's a fallen world.  Interviews...ugh!  And you atleast almost have to brag - bluuck!  "Sell yourself" as being a "good fit" ... what are we?  A pair of pants?  Anyway...

The article advises adult children to seek out therapist$ for themselves and their splitting up parents, in order to make the "transition" with minimal drama.  Yep, the agenda smell$.   Transition...my foot!  

Ya wonder why younger people aren't even bothering to marry?  Gram and gramps splitting up is a clarion call (from the pit) to the grandkids - and most definitely, to "grand girl" (that boomer term just reeks feministic...bleech :/ ) - that marriage vows are mere clanging symbols.  Come to think of it, am not even sure if lifetime vows are even made much these days.  i understand that during many (so called) marriage ceremonies, the couple speak their own new-agey fluff before whomever is conducting the function - in other words, "to have and to hold" until one, or both of us, decides otherwise.  

One of the things pointed out in the article, was that many gray-dIvorcing couples has held off the split-up while the kids were still in school.  On the surface (how typically boomer) sounds magnanimous.  But we all know - and the article even alludes to - the adult children will wonder if their childhood memories were a lie.  And of course, here's where the therapists come in for their take - uh, what is it?  Some $150 an hour?