The Big D, and He Don’t Mean Dallas (Don’t worry, not me, someone else…)
So I just read about Chris Pirillo’s divorce. It apparently happened forever ago, but I didn’t know anything until I was reading his weblog this morning and he mentioned his girlfriend. I thought, “Wait a minute, isn’t he married?” Apparently he and Gretchen split some time last year. How sad. For anyone who doesn’t know (again, like it matters, I’m the only one reading this blog so far as I know), Chris Pirillo is the author of the Lockergnome website, newsletters, etc. He is a great geek, and I’ve been subscribed to his stuff as long as I’ve had email. It kills me to know that I missed this news, first of all, but also to know that it happened. It’s kinda crappy when anything bad happens to someone you respect, and Chris has had a bad enough run of it lately. All sorts of problems when he was at TechTV, most of which I don’t even understand, and then this stuff with Gretchen. I know that something like half of all marriages these days end in divorce, but someone has to be the other half, right? I’m sure planning on staying married ” ’till death do us part.” I don’t think there’s anything so crazy about that, either. Why is it so much harder for couples to stay together? Or is it that it’s just so much easier to get divorced now? i.e., Is it just that now, in modern society, divorce doesn’t have the heavy negative weight that it used to, so people who used to just stick it out when it got crappy now just pull the ejection seat lever? I don’t know, just food for thought.