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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Al and Tipper's breakup, and now Karenna's, should have prepared us at last to revisit the idea of till death do us part. The problem is, the husband still doesn't seem to be part of the equation.
A week after news broke of her parents' separation, word is that daughter Karenna Gore Schiff is breaking up with her husband of 13 years.
The Gores are formal, well-bred and Washingtonian -- everything I'm not. But the separation of Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins? It hit me where I live.
Some would say quitting has gotten a bad rap, and that in fact, Americans have long been quitters, starting with the Puritans. So maybe the Gores deserve our congratulations.
Why did the wholesome Gores split and the bad-boy Clintons stay together? The Gores are a mystery, but Bill and Hillary have an unbreakable political bond.
Tipper was uncomfortable in the spotlight. After 40 years of marriage, maybe she decided it was time to live life on her own terms.
No outsider can ever understand exactly what goes on in a marriage, except the two people trying every day to make it work.
We promise to honor and cherish, in sickness and in health, but what about sacrificing your interests for your spouse's? Why is that one left out?
"It's clearly the most important relationship I've ever had with anyone, bar none," he told me that day.
But isn't it . . . inconvenient?
Thought the relationship between Al and Tipper Gore was everything that Bill and Hillary Clinton's was not? Then you just don't know much about marriage, says one of the nation's top marriage experts.
The former vice president and his wife told friends via e-mail that they've come to a "very mutual and mutually supportive decision" to part.
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