It's getting harder and harder to reconcile his behavior with his rhetoric.
Rich people are supposed to get married and divorced, it's America's #1 source of wealth distribution.
And beaten to death.
Now Rush will probably be happier. These things don't happen overnight. I'd just like to say that "I need Rush". Many a day he has saved me from kicking a liberal. He does it for me.
I can see why we needed this thread too - I'm sure there'll be all kinds of new insights.
No divorce is amicable. Some are just less acrimonious than others. Keep in mind that this was a civil marriage, and should have at least the standing of so-called "civil unions" which have been so universally despised in certain intellectual circles. Marriage itself has come to be so devaluated that the state of connubial bliss is losing its meaning.
If it cost a couple million dollars and took six months to a year to get married, and ten bucks and three days to get divorced, an awful lot of marriages would never have taken place. Or a lot more consideration would have gone into them.
Well, it happens...every day! Very good and bad people end their relationships in divorce. It's just part of life.
I have 2 priors, both were nice ladies. My 3rd has put up with me for nearly 32 beautiful years. She is my best friend and my soul mate. We have raised two wonderful children and grown older together, though she is just as beautiful and kind as she was the day I met her and we fell in love.
Our honeymoon has never stopped, not for even one day. She is the reason my heart bothers to take it's next beat. Like Reagan, I miss this Gift from God........ every time she leaves the room. Some guys tease me about this, but I gave up sport fishing, because all I did on the boat was miss the time I could have been spending with my Bride.
Too bad about Rush, but it happens even to the best of us. For me, it's not about the promise or oath one makes, it's about being best friends, love, respect, admiration, kindness, building memories and much, much more.
Makes me wonder, if this isn't his initiation, if she isn't at the age where she's going through the change and now suddenly without reason hates her husband simply for existing, not alone the tons of other baggage that has been dropped on the marriage the past couple of years.
I hope she takes the damn cats with her.
Netscape is saying that Rush "dumped" his wife.
Iceholes
Inside sources say that she is leaving with a mere $150 million dollars, and the gardner Raul.
This is tantamount to an admission of engaging in a "fishing" expedition, which any judge with room temperature IQ would throw out in a heartbeat.
Ol' Rush could use someone who is on his side in this, not someone who only looks to him to be a cash cow for her and her kids. I would be suspicious of any woman who would become interested in the bombastic Rush only after he started making serious money.
I only hope he had an airtight pre-nup.
Does this mean that she can be required to testify against him if there is any kind of court case brought against him?
The article says 3 for both, but I thought Rush was married only once before...for 7-years.
I guess all those freepers that were onto something was not right between Rush and Marta were absolutely on target.
Rush strikes me as a difficult person to live with. He is an addictive personality through and through, and it shows in many ways. But who the heck knows what Marta has brought to the marriage? Frankly, it's their business.
I just wish he would get himself together, he has so much to offer. And all these personal problems get in the way of a very good message, and of someone who is one of the sharpest political and social analysts out their today.
So who is Rush's MONICA !
However, his personal life is a total train wreck. His self-destructive behavoir is like that of 1980s rock star.
Rush's wife married a wealthy man. She stayed for the obligatory ($$$$$) ten years. She won her lottery.
If the parties can't arrive at or don't like an arrived-at parity, the case can go to trial. However, this is extremely rare.
During the settlement period which can be brief or take several years depending on the feistiness of the parties, the respective attorneys and the hearings judge don't even want to hear about adultery, drug-taking, alcoholism, beatings, whatever. It just doesn't enter into the divorce at all...with a few exceptions such as custody battles or if a trial does occur and a door inadvertantly gets opened on adultery by an unwary attorney.
The judge will mandate an arbitrator called in before he agrees to a trial date if there's a dispute that can't be resolved.
Any infighting, bitterness, greed or revenge is handled behind the scenes by the lawyers. The court calendars are so jammed with divorce filings, that you have to really have a unique case to get a trial at all. The divorce legal system is designed to avoid trials so it doesn't collapse.
So, don't look for hot stuff or fireworks in the Rush Limbaugh split. The long-ago day of steamy Hollywood open divorce trials are long over in Florida. Divorces here are 99% cut-and-dried because of no-fault divorce laws and equal division of assets.
It's only the money, honey.
Leni