{"id":103,"date":"2010-08-09T09:57:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T16:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2010-11-28T20:21:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T03:21:05","slug":"separated-and-still-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/separated-and-still-married\/","title":{"rendered":"Separated and Still Married"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-118\" href=\"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/separated-and-still-married\/buffett-wife\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-118\" title=\"buffett.wife\" src=\"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/buffett.wife_-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a>The <a title=\"Married and Separated\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/01\/fashion\/01Undivorced.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1&amp;ref=fashion\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>\u00a0last week ran a great story\u00a0by Pamela Paul describing the many couples who choose not to live together, but to stay married.\u00a0 These couples include Warren Buffet and his wife (who remained married for 27 years after separation and despite his long term relationship with another woman).\u00a0 The article raises all the questions you face in deciding to divorce &#8211; the hassle and expense of divorce <span style=\"color: #800000;\">vs<\/span>. the confusion and financial risk of staying married to someone you no longer share a life with <span style=\"color: #800000;\">vs.<\/span> the benefits of remaining married (health insurance coverage, for one).\u00a0 Despite a full-on article about this potential path in the NY Times, this is still a rare choice.\u00a0 When a marriage or long term relationship ends, almost always there is one partner who leaves and one who is left.\u00a0 The &#8220;leaver&#8221; is anxious to start anew.\u00a0 In fact, the article seems mostly to describe couples who have been together and raised a family so that the press to chart a new course in their lives may not be as pressing.\u00a0 In any event, its a well written piece and thought provoking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times\u00a0last week ran a great story\u00a0by Pamela Paul describing the many couples who choose not to live together, but to stay married.\u00a0 These couples include Warren Buffet and his wife (who remained married for 27 years after separation and despite his long term relationship with another woman).\u00a0 The article raises all the <a href=\"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/separated-and-still-married\/\">Continue reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42],"tags":[13,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}