Italy hosts its first "divorce fair"
MILAN (Reuters Life!) – Italy is holding its first divorce fair, offering services such as life coaching and beauty advice to a booming number of separating couples in the Catholic country.
The organizers said the fair (www.puntoeacapo.it), which will be held in Milan on May 8-9, aims to help divorcing people start a new, happier life.
"Smiling is key to this fair, which also offers serious, practical advice for often dramatic situations," Franco Zanetti, who created the event, told Reuters.
The services include divorce planning, anti-stalking help, and "new look" tips, the organizers said.
Echoing similar initiatives in the United States and elsewhere in Europe, visitors will also be able to subscribe to divorce gift lists at department stores in Milan.
A growing number of Italian couples file for divorce every year, according to Italy's statistics agency ISTAT.
More than 130,000 couples split or got divorced in Italy in 2007, up more than 3 percent from the previous year, ISTAT said.
On the other side, the number of marriages nearly halved since 1972 to around 246,000 in 2008.
Oh good thinking nightwalker!
Anyone else for the Milan Divorce Express? Chocolate included! :D
I'm especially looking forward to the mentioned "anti-stalking help"...
Choco, I'll bring the chocolates for the plane trip :D See you at the airport!
Divorce gift item
- expensive perfumes (with unpaid bills)
- Sports car (with malfunctioning brakes)
- King size bed (with one leg loose)
- Holiday package for two ( to Iraq)
- A nice expensive dress (undersized)
..........and so on
WK, you love women period.
hi chocoholic......
how are you???
I love divorced women :)
you were fast on that.
the power lobby is decreasing?????????
already got my ticket :P
lets book our tickets and go then :D
Sheaffer Pen
Daimond Ring
Ballons
Candles etc. etc.
"visitors will also be able to subscribe to divorce gift lists at department stores in Milan"
just wondering what items might be on that list!