Lionel Richie Divorce - Is $300,000/ Month True?
Read the latest on the Lionel Richie divorce:
- The Smoking Gun - Five months after filing for divorce from Lionel Richie, the singer’s
estranged wife has just weighed in with a whopping–and remarkably
detailed–demand for at least $300,000 in monthly support payments. - Divorce Magazine - “[Lionel] and I had an extraordinary, extravagant lifestyle,” Mrs. Richie, a former waitress, dancer, and clothing designer, wrote in the income declaration. She says that they “regularly spent in excess of $300,000 a month. We could comfortably afford to spend unlimited sums of money on everything and anything we chose. I had no limit on what I could spend.”
- CNN.com - LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) — Lionel Richie’s wife, who is seeking spousal support from the pop star as their divorce case proceeds, has told a Los Angeles judge that the couple regularly spent more than $300,000 a month.
Almost all people who have gone through a divorce, and a Lionel Richie divorce is no exception, go through at least one transitional partner during their healing process. This is a person that seems to be the answer to all your dreams - they’re the “special girlfriends” that ease a divorced man through the trauma - they’re good for them; they listen to them; they’re sensitive to their needs but never demanding; and they fulfill their sexual hunger. It’s great to “find and use” such a transitional partner, but be aware of your own situation and their usefulness to you, and don’t allow yourself to end up marrying them.
You may care about them a great deal, and feel sure that they’re the answer to all your dreams - that they have all the love you could ever ask for - but don’t marry them - what you’re feeling is only the peace of an oasis in the middle of a desert. And don’t feel badly when eventually you break off such a relationship. Some people are born to nurture others back to good health, and seeing you on your feet again, and on your way to real happiness is the only reward these people really want. Then too, who’s to say that you won’t someday be a transitional partner for someone who’s hurting just as you once did…
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Finally, there’s the problems of boredom and loneliness. In order to eliminate boredom and loneliness from your life, you must first understand that both of these problems are self-induced. That is, if you are bored or lonely, it’s because you are allowing yourself to be…
Boredom is generally a form of emotional anethesia brought about by the person who is bored, because he doesn’t want to experience his own feelings. It’s also a form of mental laziness which keeps people from changing and growing.
The bottom line is simply that people are accountable for their own boredom, and - if you feel bored, then you had better remember that boredom breeds even more boredom.
Whenever you think of yourself as being bored, get involved in something. Don’t allow yourself to sit and do nothing. Write letters to relatives or friends. Clean your garage or visit a neighbor. Get out and spruce up your yard or take a drive and see what changes have taken place in and around the area in which you live. Join up with a Singles social club and attend some of their functions; enroll in a self-improvement course or two; visit a trade show and find out about some of the new products being offered for sale.
To alleviate boredom, you have to do something that might stimulate your interest. Thus, if you don’t want to do anything other than what you’ve been doing - if you’re waiting for a bolt of lightning to spark your interest in something - you’ll continue to be bored.
Loneliness is basically a different form of boredom. A person feels lonely when they can’t think of anything they want to do, and thus, they begin feeling sorry for themselves because no one cares about them.
In order not to be lonely, you have to start thinking of things you might enjoy doing with other people, and then invite other people to join you in doing those kinds of things. Really, it’s just as simple as that - take a trip to one of your shopping malls with a friend and do some window-shopping; meet a friend for lunch or dinner at a new restaurant; or invite a friend to join you to see a move, a play, or even a concert.
So long as you shut yourself away from other people, and do not get out into the world amongst people, you will be lonely. To be happy, enjoy life, and know love, you have to make yourself available to other people.
To recover from the trauma of divorce, you have to understand the injury - apply the proper medicine - allow enough time for the healing process to be completed - and all the while, be positive that tomorrow will be a happier day for you. It’s a kind of recovery therapy that only you can apply and control - the results are up to you.
February 19th, 2008 12:55
And there are starving children in the United States….SAD!!