Sad news for fans of love: after thirty years of marriage, wonderfully tiny couple Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman are calling it quits. TMZ reports today that the actors, who have three children together, have separated and plan to divorce.
On Friday the news of a certain study was making the Internet rounds, pleasing an array of people who seemed to take it as support that all this "feminism" and "gender equality" stuff was a bunch of bunk, that women should really be in the kitchen, doing housework, if they expected their marriages to remain marriages and not head toward divorce post-haste.
There's a study in the news that's bound to get a bunch of people talking (Drudge tweeted it this morning, for instance, with more than 100 retweets). Whether those people are for or against its pronouncements, it seems to fly in the face of what we thought we knew about marriage, gender equality, and the way modern, successful relationships work.
Today Doree Lewak takes on prenups in the New York Post, and they are crazy! It says it right there in the article headline, "New York's craziest prenups." So it's gotta be good. What are they? How nuts, exactly? And what does it mean?
Oi, this is a hard one. Us Weekly reports the first couple of comedy, Amy Poehler and Will Arnett, are separating after nine years (!) together.
When the rumors started swirling that Anne Sinclair was planning to leave her then-husband Dominique Strauss-Kahn it didn't come as any surprise, nor could we blame her, and now that she's talking openly about their split, she sounds like she's doing well.
We all thought the divorce between Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise would take forever, or at least be extremely difficult, but their lawyers are in New York negotiating the old fashioned way.
The New York Times brings up an issue underreported so far in the drama surrounding Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' divorce: It is really hard to get un-hitched in Scientology.
People magazine is reporting that after nearly six years of weird wedded bliss, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are divorcing. No reason has been given, but we'd imagine it has nothing to do with aliens, Scientology, or, y'know, those rumors about Mr. Cruise.
After more than a year of her husband being embroiled in sex scandal after sex scandal, Anne Sinclair is finally leaving Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
One year ago New York became the sixth state in the nation to recognize gay marriage. Now it will have to handle gay divorce. If we acknowledge that gay marriages can (and, based on the statistics for heterosexual couples, many of them will) fall apart, does it weaken the case for those marriages having existed in the first place?
A sweet story about a young couple seeing all their dreams come true has quickly turned into a different tale of cold financial calculation that could only warm the heart of a tax accountant.
Discovered: Polar bears are balding, texting is therapeutic, divorce is linked to life expectancy and dinosaurs could be ruling a distant planet.
The press is stirring up rumors of a near-divorce between Sarah Palin and her husband Todd but it looks like the "lamestream" media missed the joke.
Milestone moments in the possibly-doomed marriage of celebrity power-duo Heidi Klum and Seal.
Meet "Antonio C," the name court documents give to a nearly century-old Italian man looking to divorce his wife of 77 years.
Sinead O'Connor's brief marriage is over because of weed, Kristen Wiig's new romance heats up, and Queen E's main squeeze is going to be okay.
Steel yourselves for a rash of terrible Twitter jokes and commentary in the wake of Demi Moore's much expected but just announced divorce from Ashton Kutcher.
Only 2.5 percent of lesbians in civil partnerships separate in the U.K.
Fourteen of the 20 states with the highest divorce rates are red
On political wives, female genital mutilation, and the torture debate
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