Divorce Cases

Lately I feel bombarded with high profile divorce cases in my face and I have to say honestly having lived through one myself, I wish people would keep their personal affairs to themselves.

Over the last few weeks, I've had to listen to and read in the paper all the sorted details about the divorce of Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook. Oh my God, I tell you it is sickening and I have no sympathy for either of the two. In my opinion Christie is getting exactly what she asks for, because she never had to have a public divorce in the first place. If the public is learning about her very sexually sick husband, it's because she wants them to know. She wants them to look at her and think, "Poor Christie, look at the awful way Peter treated her." I think it's all a crook of s...!!!

I'm a divorced woman with two kids myself and it is a very painful, long process, and the world does not need to weigh in on it. I have to ask Christie to look at herself and ask, what is my part in the end of the marriage. Yeah cheating is an ugly thing to have to find out about, especially if you have no clue (which I believe she had some idea if he wasn't doing her regularly), but why put yourself through it in front of everyone in the world to see. Christie is a high profile super model (was) and everyone knows her face, so why is she doing this to herself?

Is she thinking about the fall out for her children. She can't possibly shield them from the looks and questions that will come their way if they haven't already. She can't be with them 24 hours a day everyday for the rest of their lives. We're talking about young kids, not older kids that can articulate and have an informed opinion, but young kids that are highly impressionable and love both their parents. Did she think about them at all?

I mean really, do I need to know that he had an affair with and eighteen year old and watches porn? No I did not! I'm not looking at blame in the situation, I'm looking at handling your personal business, which a marriage is very personal, privately with dignity and respect for your self at least.

As a woman scorned years ago, I get the feelings of betrayal and anger, but if you're truly living your life for your children's well being, as Christie states in the paper and in interviews that she is, then why put her marriage problems and ultimate divorce out in front of the world. Just get divorced, settle the money and property issues, and jointly take care of the kids.

I believe deeply that divorce should be dealt with between the two people that took the vows to be married and not the world. I hope that Alex & Cynthia Rodriquez will handle their pending divorce more privately, but I have a feeling that their feelings of anger and betrayal may get the best of them also. It is sad and unfortunate, and a real shame that a regular person like me has to have an opinion about it at all.