Jon & Kate: Separate - part deux

Ok, I know I won't be the first to use this phrase or the last for that matter. But the announcement we have all been waiting for happened tonight. So a couple of items, I did not seek out to watch this show tonight nor did I even know that it was a big announcement was about to happen tonight. I just happened to be in front of the TV when it all happened. Here is my next installment from this series.

I will start with a positive.......yeah don't have one. I am shocked at what i just watched. So I would like to address the rest of this to Jon and Kate, themselves.

Don't complain about the fact that paparrazi follows you when you decide to announce your separation on national cable TV. If you really wanted privacy, stop filming while you figured out "what is best for the kids." The paps are following you because you are feeding the fire and what few items you don't announce on your show (if there is anything you don't announce on TV anymore) they want to be the first to break. And please, please do not be so crass to compare yourself to soldiers fighting in Iraq. Yes they are fighting for our and others freedom. However, they are not complaining about it on national TV and forcing an audience to pick sides. The realize it is their duty and do it in silence, something you both could take a lesson from.

Also, do not say through this "the show must go on" because it does not. You have the choice to stop it. You should have stopped it before letting this play out on TV. I know you feel the desire to do this to provide for your children, but you have already made more money from this than the average family. Please stop financially benefitting from your demise, it is heart breaking.

You both seem to easily say that you do it for the kids, but do you know what that means? Have you thought about what your kids will think when they are young adults and watch all of this? Will they have deep anger and regret for your choices? Would they rather live in a smaller house and have a happy stable family or the large one that you and Jon will now take turns living in because it is the "kids" house. I hope your kids grow from this and learn lessons about choices they make in their lives. I hope they realize what support the 8 of them will always be for each other.

Again, I am sorry to have witnessed this. It is like the car accident on the side of the road, that you don't want to watch, but you look at anyway. I am officially done with this. I am happy to report that my time with JK+8 was only about 9 months, but I cannot condone this anymore. I am sorry that our society now deems the destruction of a family as "reality" TV. Since Jon and Kate don't have the strength to stop our ability to watch this, I wish that others would step in and do the right thing, but that is not the world we live in.

And you are right, I am not innocent in watching it and now blogging about it twice. But tonight pointed a finger at me too. If I want them to stop, then I need to. It is all cyclical and I take my responsibility.

I hope the "8" come through this strong and supportive for one another.