Getting a divorce a la Br-x-t rules

Br-x-t matters drag on and on and increasingly highlight the weirdest, oops, most inventive approaches to argument since, well, perhaps since Eve persuaded Adam to wiggle a fig leaf.

The mystifying approach to argument can’t be dismissed, as Eve might have said of the botanical curtain, too, because (in our case) this argument, this sort of debate, comes from the highest authority in the kingdom.

A pretty high authority, anyway.

Once in a lifetime

What if this approach could be applied to our own individual efforts to survive in modern life?

What about that eternally aired challenge that many experience at least once in their lives.

An unhappy scene usually introduced the subject of divorce, with perhaps the missus blaming the husband for, well, not putting out the rubbish.

Now we need a villain to promote the divorce. Perhaps we'll have a fatso with his own agenda. Perhaps he wants the bride for himself.

In these days, perhaps it’s the husband he’s after, or even the kids. We'll call him Uncle Bore-is who persuades the wife and offspring that a fortune would come to them in alimony …
Continues on the blogs for my ocean adventuring book, Sailing to Purgatory, at
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