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.”

I’ve been following the gossip about Jon and Kate Gosselin, the stars of the reality show “Jon & Kate Plus 8.”  In case you haven’t heard of the show, let me fill you in.  The “plus 8″ are Jon and Kate’s children—-a set of 8 year old twins and a set of 5 year old sextuplets (yes, that’s 6!!!) for a grand total of eight.  First, rumors started circulating about Jon having an affair with a twenty-something year old and now there are rumors about Kate having an affair with her bodyguard. 

What I can’t figure out is how either of them would have time to have an affair.  They have eight children under the age of nine.  I know women with two children who can’t find the time to shave their legs!  All I can say is if the rumors turn out to be true, I certainly hope they’re being really careful because eight is enough!

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Nobody wants to see marriages fail. And what kind of person would actually cheer as the number of divorces rise? (Divorce lawyers and Wedding Ring Coffin salespersons excluded.)   But I’ve noticed an interesting trend.  This past month there has been a higher level of celebrity divorces; Pete Townshend and Karen Astley, Robyn and Mel Gibson, and most recently Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn.

When times are tough, as they have been now for the past couple of years, divorce levels seem to go down.  It’s too expensive to breakup!  So then, could the inverse be true?  If the economy is improving, do more people file for divorce?  Is financial stability the last straw that empowers the broken-hearted to break the chains of a bad marriage?

Maybe this trend is a signal that the worst is behind us and we can look forward to a better tomorrow.