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I am a website design and search engine optimization guy.  I usually don’t claim to be a relationship expert but there are some cases that I will make an exception.  As I was working last night, I decided to take a break and see what was going on in the world.  I came across an article talking about former Genesis front man Phil Collins having to shell out a whopping $46.68 million dollars for his latest marriage fiasco. 

I’m going to repeat this, $46.68 million dollars.  That is even more money than Paul McCartney had to pony up from his divorce.  Somehow that doesn’t seem right.  Shouldn’t McCartney have had to pay more based on his rock star status.  While Collins is truly a star, he is not a Beatle.  Somehow it doesn’t seem fair although I’m sure McCartney is probably glad it wasn’t him this time.

But wait, it gets even better.  This is not the first time Collins had to open the checkbook.  A previous marriage resulted in a payout of approximately $34 million clams.  Sorry for the pause.  When numbers get that big I have to go to the calculator.  That is a total of $80.68 million for two divorces, an average of $40.34 million. 

So what have we learned from this?  First, Phil is not very good with the relationship thing.  In the divorce in which he lost the $34 million bones, he informed his soon to be ex of the ending of the nuptials by fax.  Classy.  This was a move that was later improved upon by Britney Spears when she informed K-Fed that she was divorcing him by text message, but I digress.  Second, Phil is once again on the market.  If financial trends continue, the next Mrs. Collins should be in line to pull down around $50 mil when it all comes crashing down. 

Now I am not one to make fun of divorce.  It is an all too occurring incident.  However, if you can’t work things out, I know some really good divorce attorneys.