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‘Shirley Valentine has a lot to answer for – the story of the Liverpool housewife who was tired of her husband who not only treated her as a skivvy, but was also boring her with his routines and misery. She was so tired of him and her life she went off to Greece, got jiggy with Tom Conti, and didn’t go back.
It paved the way for women who weren’t yet ready to spend the rest of their days looking at their husbands watching football and demanding waitress service. While Shirley might not have given them the idea, she sure would have helped with the courage needed to do something about it.
Shirley Valentine was, in a nutshell, a giant marriage wrecker!
I was reminded of this a few weeks ago when I read about Kathy Griffin, an LA-based comedienne and actress who announced she’d divorced her husband Randy Bick because he’d become too much of a ‘homebody’, which is basically a home-loving, sofa-dependent, slipperwearing bore, who wasn’t
interested in entertaining her party lifestyle.
She claims there was no way back and she needed to ‘be Kathy again’ at which point she announced she was going on a massive tour! What a coincidence! But joking aside, I think men do age faster and are ready to wave goodbye to their disco days way before women want to.
Maybe the answer is to go for someone younger? Well, not necessarily as Kathy has proven – her Randy was 45 and she is 63. Which is almost the same age gap as me and my husband, Mark. Luckily, ours works quite well. I lov
