“No-fault” means that couples can split up more easily than before the new law took effect, because now they don’t have to show that one party was acting like a “fucking dick” or “psycho whatever.” Under the old “fault” divorce rules, one spouse had to show that the other was abusive, unfaithful, mean, or some other terribleness. An alternative to proving fault was to separate for a year before requesting a divorce, but that is a long time to be married to someone who sucks.

Now you can tell the judge, “I’m bored,” or “Carl Paladino brainwashed me into pursuing the gay lifestyle,” and the court will grant you a divorce like that, bam, here’s your complimentary lollipop, you and your ex go follow those divergent life paths (you, to Red Lobster with your new love; your spouse, to their home, where they will cry into a pillow, heartbroken about losing you forever).

Did you celebrate the change in the law by filing for divorce? The Post predicted that “many New York couples” would be “rushing down the aisle … in divorce court.” Apparently, they heard that you’ve all been driving each other crazy out there:

“A lot of my clients . . . want to file tomorrow,” divorce lawyer Suzanne Kimberly Bracker said yesterday. “They’ve been suffering in dead marriages but never wanted to go through a contested-divorce process.”

But in a follow-up “shocker,” the Post reports that, well what do you know, not so many people were eager to rush down that aisle after all. At least not in New York City, anyway: In Manhattan, only four couples filed, and just two in the Bronx. Maybe New Yorkers are just too lazy to get divorced.

For their follow-up, the Post called up their friend Attorney Bracker again, because she’s the only divorce lawyer in town. Bracker alluded to a frightening new worry for husbands, the “breakfast break-up”:

[No-fault divorce freedom is] also going to take some people by surprise — she said she got phone calls from two men yesterday whose wives had told them at breakfast that they were divorcing them, and she predicted more would be coming soon.

Free marriage advice: Husbands, put down those damned newspapers and talk to your wives! It will cut down your chances of getting E-Z divorced.

“Internet pornography has absolutely changed my generation’s expectations…How does (the rampant availability of pornography online) not affect the psychology of having a relationship with somebody? It’s got to.” |Daily News|

Ha! Here’s another reason why Facebook sucks the ass of a homeless man who’s been wandering the desert for weeks: Facebook was cited in one out of every five recent divorces as a triggering mechanism for the breakdown of a marriage. Let this serve as a warning to all the Facebook-y guys and gals out there…be careful who you poke, because your jealous significant other is watching! |Telegraph|

After mellowing out MTA billboards in Union Square, street artist Posterchild manipulated a video ad atop the entrance of the 23rd Street N/R subway entrance to unveil a more intimate message: “will you marry me?” Hailing from Toronto, the public space manipulator installed the piece with the help of his girlfriend, surprising her with its reveal. He writes:

She thought she was just helping me out with another street art project; I kept this covered until after it was installed and after the unveiling I was expecting some kind of reaction- but it took a little while to convince her that this was a proposal for real, and not just some art project!

Ha! But she said “Yes”, so it’s all gravy!

Photos via Blade Diary

A Sicilian man who was recently released from prison into a house arrest program begged an authorities to send him back to prison so he wouldn’t have to deal with his wife’s bitching. |Calgary Herald|

Hey you know what sucks? Marriage! Yep, for most people, tying the ole not means putting the ole genitals in a jar filled with formaldehyde since they’ll be just about as useful as a dead fetus contained inside of a jar filled with the same. But lookie here…if you’re married, you can actually increase your chances of actually using your genitals for coitus if you’re willing to do the laundry and clean the toilet bowl every now and again.

Yes, a new study published by the Journal of Family Issues — whatever the hell that is — says that the more married men and women are willing to do housework, the more likely they are to get to engage in passionless sex with the annoying spouses who they secretly hate.

Reports the Wall Street Journal:

The study defined housework as nine chores: cleaning, preparing meals, washing dishes, washing and ironing clothes, driving family members around, shopping, yard work, maintaining cars and paying bills. Wives in the study spent an average 41.8 hours a week on these tasks, compared with 23.4 hours for husbands—a split that is fairly typical, and often regarded by wives as unfair. However, the effects of any fairness concerns among wives weren’t measured in this study.

Tom Doran, a Plymouth, Mich., engineer, says doing housework “promotes friendship and intimacy” for him and his wife, an executive assistant. And John Rogitz, a San Diego attorney who has been married for 30 years, says, “If you’re both around doing housework, that also means you are alone together, and in a place where both are relaxed and comfortable.” He adds, “It’s pretty hard to have sex when you’re not together in a place that permits it.”

Another husband, a St. Paul, Minn., accountant who describes himself as happily married for 20 years, says housework reflects a deeper bond. Although he does plenty of housework, “to me it’s not the dishes, laundry, vacuuming (or Viagra) that matters,” he writes. Sharing chores reflects a “willingness to hold my wife’s needs and wants on a par with my own. For us, the key to intimacy is the sharing and minimization of selfishness.” His wife, a nurse, agrees, saying that “doing the household chores is certainly part of the sharing.”

The study fails to mention whether or not having a hot, young Latino maid increases the likelihood that a husband might get laid more often, but anyone with half a brain already knows that it does.