Rod Stewart Files for Divorce From Hunter

[BlondieK143]

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Hunter, 35, and the veteran British rocker were married in 1990, but split in 1999, court documents filed Thursday show. Hunter originally filed for divorce in 2003 but later withdrew her request for unspecified reasons.

The couple have two children, 12-year-old Liam and 10-year-old Rene.

Stewart, 60, recently announced that his longtime fiancee, model/photographer Penny Lancaster, was pregnant. He said the baby is due in early December.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/people_stewart

[indepat]

1. Say it ain't so Joe

[BlondieK143]

2. I know.

Not predictable at all. :)

[SarahB]

3. I thought they've been divorced for years.

Wow. Who knew? :shrug:

[lenidog]

4. It probably had to do with the fact that

Stewart's lawyers were better than Hunter's. They signed a prenup when they got married her touting the fact that she was the one that suggested it saying that she didn't want to get paid to have been Mrs Rod Stewart and never wanted alimony. When she filed for divorce she also wanted to get rid of the prenup and wanted a hefty chunk of alimony. That is the only reason I can think of. Since as far as I know they haven't lived together since then.

[BlondieK143]

5. Interesting!

I didn't know that, thanks for the info.!

[tama_nut]

6. There is so little morality left in the world

People treat marriage today like a trial subscription to Newsweek. So many people go into a marriage with the expectations that "we'll give it a whirl and if it doesn't work out, we'll just get divorced" Would you start a new job with low expectations like that? I'm sure most would say no. Why then, do so many people enter into the most important decision of their lives like that?

This September my wife and I will be married 23 years. A number that is almost unheard of for people our age (47). Many of my friends are on their second or even third marriage.

It's no wonder so many kids nowadays are so screwed up in the head, they have no idea what a stable family life is about. My parents' and grandparents' generations attached a real stigma to divorce. Today it's almost expected.

[SarahB]

7. Welcome to DU!

Often one's marries someone and the other person has serious issues that develop down the road like addiction, adultery, or abuse. I don't believe the other party should have to spend their lives in misery because of that. I'm happy you are happy, but be very careful about putting things in terms so black and white.

Judge not lest ye be judged, eh?

[BlondieK143]

8. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[Mizmoon]

9. Consider this ...

In my research I've come to realize that divorce didn't NEED to happen as often in the past because more than likely one spouse or the other would die young.

Interestingly, I also realized because of death and remarriage there were huge numbers of blended families, what we'd now call step-familes. For example, my grandmother's father died when she was five, her mother remarried, and she hated her step-father with a passion just like you might see today in a famiy of divorce.

Just thinking out loud ...

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. Or perhaps, decades ago, our mothers and grandmothers were told

to look the other way when their men were unfaithful. Stable family life is what you make of it. Family life sometimes becomes more stable after divorce...especially in cases of abuse or infidelity. In a perfect world, everything would be rosey. Welcome to DU.

[Gormy Cuss]

14. Yes,and Rod dear, Penny's not your fiancee

One can't be affianced while still legally married to the last wife unless one lives in a country where bigamy is allowed.

I'm tired of public figures announcing pregnancy at the same time as an 'engagement', especially since many never bother to get married. Call her your love, your partner, your friend with benefits, but she's not your fiancee if there is no commitment to marriage.

A stable family life can exist without married parents, but I agree with you that the trial marriage phenomenon has gotten out of hand. If someone in my family annouced they were 'giving it a whirl' the hardest smackdowns would be from family members who have divorced. Marriage is a contract, not a lark. If you want to 'give it a whirl,' live together.

[auntAgonist]

15. welcome to DU.

My first marriage lasted 22 years. I never wore rose coloured glasses and neither did he. But we've both remarried after our divorce. Hopefully we'll live happily with our new spouses for the rest of our lives.

Try not to be so judgemental, good on ya for staying married that long and good wishes for the rest of your life together too.


aA

[koopie57]

11. I thought Rod Stewart was gay?

I'm so confused. Or maybe Jon Stewart is gay? No? Oh, Martha Stewart is gay. *sobbing uncontrolably*

[BlondieK143]

13. Nope, you're all wrong.

It's Tom Cruise, remember? :eyes:

[RFKHumphreyObama]

12. Rachel Hunter was the one who last year endorsed *

Saying that all Clinton did while in office was to host tea parties while * was getting the real work done fighting terrorism -or something to that effect. That statement was just so ignorant it didn't even deserve a response