slicing marriage after seven years

Maybe it's just me.

I'll accept that, because a lot of things are, honestly, just me. My continue forgetfulness and inability to recall, well, much of anything, along with a vague consiousness as to what, exactly, I am doing, definitely leads me to accept that, okay, it may be just me.

Let's back up. We all come from two parents, okay, technically an egg and a sperm. A guy and a girl. Whether the possessors of these gender-specific items decide to unite in marriage is completely up to them. Often, they try. Often, they love. Often, they hate. And often, they divorce. That's okay. It's legal. Let's not encourage any Robert Dudley's to (possibly inadvertantly) kill their wives just to get out of the marriage to get to their Queen Elizabeth I. Just divorce.

Or, as "glamourous politician" Gabriele Pauli puts it, dissolve.

"The basic approach is wrong ... many marriages last just because people believe they are safe," she told reporters. "My suggestion is that marriages expire after seven years." After that time, couples should either agree to extend their marriage or it should be automatically dissolved, she said.

Basically, she's saying that, since so many people who are married don't really belong together and aren't happy, they should just give up and make the whole situation easier by just letting it dissolve, you know, melt away, disappear, act as though it was never there.

Coming from a home of divorced parents, I understand that the "D-word" happens. But my parents didn't go into it knowing that if they didn't like how loudly their partner snored, they just had to get through it for a few years and it would be like it never happened.

Personal ads can now save 35 cents with the deletion of "divorced," because, after all, you were never married if your marriage was mutually dissolved.

Honestly, this woman has some serious cajones in suggesting this. She's been divorced herself twice, so perhaps she'd like to be viewed as more than a woman with two failed marriages. Maybe this would make her seem younger. Forget Botox, just dissolve your marriage! Takes those wrinkles right away! Then again, who wouldn't want to be shacked up with this beauty.

Mind you, she's a politician running for the leadership of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria, an organization created as "an answer to the spiritual and material hardship left as a legacy by the Nazi dictatorship... based on the Christian human image and Christian values."

She appeared in a popular fashion magazine wearing latex gloves, a smirk and a poufy white, well, thing, earlier this year.

The only satisfying part of this article was put so well, I have to quote it.

"Viewed as a party rebel, Pauli stands almost no chance of winning next week's vote." This is from the non-partial Reuters.