GOOGLE SEARCH ON HOW TO SCREW UP YOUR LIFE, pt 1

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A google search on DIVORCE gives the numbers. Research or bad omen?

From facebook posts to google search, you learn how to interpret your relationship.

It works best if you have a relationship like marriage going on.

If not, keep reading. You might find something useful for other relationships.

Ask any long time marrieds, it’s not for everyone.

Besides, no one gets divorced if they’re not married.

Baby boomers heard this from shacked-up committed couples back in the day: “We’re as good as married. We don’t need a piece of paper to prove it.”

Of course they don’t need a piece or paper.

When’s the last time a document, a legal document, saved anything? Car? House? Other stuff?

Remember the poster that started with, “If you love someone set them free…blah, blah, blah?”

If walking out the door is freedom, then Bobby McGee was right. Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

But who is the biggest loser when one partner bails on the other?

A google search reveals THE TRUTH.

“How to know if you’re headed for divorce?”

Numbers may vary.

MSN.com shows up first with 15 signs that you’re headed for divorce.

Do you really need fifteen signs? One isn’t enough? Two?

Fox News splits the difference with 7 signs you’re headed for divorce.

It’s more believable because Fox includes an expert. In relationships. Fox News experts of all stripes take heed.

Today.com moves the divorce sign numbers to 9.

Nine is better than fifteen? Not as good as seven?

One is still a real number, as in the #1 reason, the #1 sign, you’re tanking.

Reader’s Digest comes up with 8 secret signs you’re marriage is headed for divorce.

It might be a secret to one of you, but not the other. What happened to sharing?

Leave it to our English pals to bring the numbers down.

The Telegraph gives five surprising signs you’re heading for a divorce.

Secrets and surprises and mysteries all between two people who stood up and declared their proper intentions.

Spare the tea and crumpets, love, if you have someone else on the line.

Because Britain is experienced in high profile divorce, from King Edward III divorcing his crown for Wallis Simpson, to Prince Charles giving up Diana, maybe the rest of them pared down the signs.

To balance the big downer of divorce signs, BoomerPdx reaches out to marrieds with a google search on How To Stay Married.

The couple here need all the help they can get, but this blogger, married 30 years without missing a beat. Do we need a google search to get things right? Do you?

We all need all the help we can get, but some if it goes way overboard.

Married readers, husbands and wives, will get this list:

1. Listen to the other person. Yes, they’ve said the same thing before. And you’ve reminded them. Ask yourself if they need that sort of reminding. Think of it as a learning moment, not the sort of repetition you plan on hearing once you go to hell. Stay married, avoid hell.
2. If, during the course of a day, you think you have something important to contribute to the other person’s well being, make sure it’s not a ‘gotcha’ comment. The only person you get with a ‘gotcha’ is yourself. Ask yourself how that might work out.
3. Be accountable to the other person in the marriage. Do what you say, be where you say, and follow through. That’s the hard part, the follow through. Things come up, people invite you out on the spur of the moment. Check in and let the other person be part of your life.

Count ’em. Three. 3. Three ways to stay married. III.

Any way you work it, the idea of marriage at the beginning needs to evolve with the marriage.

And divorce isn’t a part of the plan.