I can still remember the first time we met. It feels like only yesterday. I was cruising aimlessly within the dating section of Lavalife.com. I was minding my own business as I scanned through the database of pictures of all the members online. I was not prepared for what I was about to find. The moment I saw her picture I was instantly mesmerized. After a quick read of her profile I thought it was too good to be true. She seemed perfect and had a great handle- Starryeyed1. I knew I just had to instant message this woman. After our first text message it was obvious that there was an immediate connection.

In the beginning it was pure bliss. We surfed everywhere together and exchanged emails on a constant basis. I can't even tell you the amount of message boards and chatrooms we visited. We went all over…we spent weeks at the Taste of Italy forum. We loved it there. For our six-month anniversary we started our own blog. It was a big step but we knew that what we shared was something special. We were hardly ever apart as our love continued to organically grow. We instant messaged at all times and we spent days on end chatting and chatting. I knew in my heart at that point that she was the one. When I finally got the nerve up I asked her to marry me via an e-card. She replied yes almost immediately. We e-vited all our friends and family and video streamed our big day on an online wedding chapel website. The day we opted in to one another was truly magical. However only months after the wedding, things changed dramatically. We didn't surf the same websites anymore and she was rarely ever logged into the forums I was at. I was doing much of my posting alone. It got to the point where we hardly had anything to instant message about. At one time she would send me long, detailed emails throughout the day but now the best I could hope for was being copied on an email joke. Our love had turned to spam. The day I received the message that included the CompleteCase.com url, I knew it was over…she wanted a divorce.

Yes webnerds, you can now get a divorce online.

Thanks to CompleteCase.com and Legalzoom.com, couples across the United States and Canada can now complete their uncontested divorces via the internet. For the price of $350 to use the service, people can now quickly fill out all the necessary forms for a legal divorce from the comfort of their own computer. No need for that pesky human contact, now all you need is a good ISP.

The internet which has always been a haven for dating is now also a place to end your relationships. So now the worldwide web has made it easy to meet that special someone and equally as simple to leave them. The web has finally closed the loop on the entire relationship spectrum. I mean you can meet someone online, get to know them online, and now leave them online. Welcome to the idea of virtual relationships. All the joys and heartache of a real relationship, without ever having to turn off your monitor. According to the laws of e-dating, do we even need to actually physically meet someone anymore? Well there is the whole sex thing…but I remember reading somewhere that people are even claiming they have web sex (think phone sex but far more descriptive). People really need to get outside more. Web sex? Righhhhht. Clearly these folks never had a chance.

The emergence of online divorce services to me signals a sad state of our society. If we didn't know it already, it seems loud and clear that few people are staying married. It is now obvious that divorces are happening more and more frequently. So frequently in fact, that we apparently needed to streamline the divorce process to make it quicker and easier.

Now I can understand that a divorce is something you would like to do as fast and painless as possible. And by that thinking I can understand how someone stumbled upon the idea of an online divorce service. So it makes sense by that logic. I guess what my problem is we are making it SO easy for people to get a divorce now that we really aren't inspiring people to try to make their marriages work. The easier an out is, the easier it is to take the out. That to me is sad.

Regardless of my rant, it looks like online divorces are here to stay as it has been reported that more than 20,000 clients nationwide have already used the service. So good or bad it is available. Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but it may just take me a little while to get used to the thought that a divorce is just a click away!

…but that's just my opinion.

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