AAAW, SWEET

OK, I suppose the Libyan crisis has blown most things off the front page, but the divorce debate is still bubbling along quite nicely on the inner pages.

One of the sub-plots which caught the eye of the Twittersphere was the one which starred a really sweet couple, straight out of a RomCom central casting scrap-book. Some of the tweets, which expressed the somewhat tongue-in-cheek hope that the couple’s romance would morph into some gory thriller when she found him in bed with her or any other combination thereof, were less than charitable, so they shouldn’t be repeated.

The thought was expressed, though, as to how such a clearly happy couple, and good luck to them and would that all couples were like them, could presume to lecture the world on divorce, which is the consequence generally speaking of the complete antithesis of these people’s experience.

To be blunt, if it wasn’t for the stars shining so brilliantly out of their eyes, you would have to call them insufferably arrogant and smug: as it is, let’s be as nice as they appear to be and call them terminally naive.

Whatever you call them, however, the fact remains that divorce is no danger to a happy marriage, but it is a remedy to an unhappy or, worse, an abusive one, even if it releases the abuser into a wider market for his abuse.

While on the subject of divorce, can we please get a reality check on the political side of things? The fact that JPO is going to vote for his own motion is not going to bring down the Government, however much MaltaStarToday bleats about it.

And, just to close on a topical note, shouldn’t John Dalli, incarcerated as he is in Brussels, divorce himself from the temptation to comment about Libya?