Conscious uncoupling? Beat you to it Gwyneth.

Yup...who knew the spouse emeritus and I were so ahead of the curve?

We thought we were just separating but according to Gwyneth Paltrow, we were actually engaged in the act of "consciously uncoupling".

It turns out that what we had thought was the fairly mundane act of assessing the state of our marriage, jumping the hoops of mediated counseling  and accepting and preparing for the act of going our separate ways was actually a "thing".

Which makes me wonder. 

Prior to Ms Paltrow's elevating the art of tossing in the towel to her list of life enhancing advice, recommendations and musings on her blog, goop.com, is it safe to assume that those who had come asunder before had '"unconsciously uncoupled"?

And who or what was to blame for having failed to come apart in a non-aware manner?

Perhaps starting as an unconscious coupling in the first place....or... maybe a subsequent unconscious coupling in absolutely the wrong place?

A failure to eat enough kale?

Luckily for us, our conscious coupling (previously known as getting married) involved one musician (me) and someone with a way with the written word (the spouse emeritus)...you know, just like Gwyneth and Chris,,,so at least we know it couldn't have been that. 

Might have been the lack of green stuff on my part....never trusted a foodstuff that didn't start life with a face.

It's a Swedish thing....at least it is now...according to me and by extension my co-practioner of the consciously uncoupling arts, Gwyneth.

You know, I could get used to this cutting edge lifestyle.