Of course by now you’ve heard that Jon and Kate Gosselin, the reality show parents with eight children, are divorcing.  Rumors have been circulating for a while about Jon and his extracirricular activities.  On the other hand, people will probably blame Kate for being a bit controlling and overbearing.  It’s unfortunate, but I’m not really interested in how they got here.  What I’m wondering about is what’s ahead for them.

Anyone who has been out there dating after a divorce knows that everyone comes with some baggage.  One can only hope that your potential future mate has baggage which is “carry-on.”  Unfortunately, there are a lot of  “steamer trunks” out there.  But eight kids?  That’s enough baggage to fill a freight truck!  

So I can’t help but wonder who would be interested in dating either Jon or Kate.  Really, would you want to get involved in all that?  I think it’s pretty safe to say that if Jon or Kate weren’t a “celebrity,”  the chances of either of them finding someone who would want to become a step-parent to eight children would be pretty remote.  I hope they’ll both be careful; there are a lot of people looking for their 15 minutes of fame.

Hey, maybe there’s another set of divorced parents out there with six or eight kids.  Put them together with Jon and Kate and they’ll have another reality show, a modern day “Yours, Mine, and Ours.”