00:00I was reading this article and I started talking to Mark about it and Mark got very defensive.
00:07Kelly Ripa brings up a touchy subject on Live with Kelly and Mark.
00:12During the October 11th episode of her daytime show that she co-hosts with her husband Mark Consuelos,
00:19the 54-year-old brings up the idea of divorce live on air and reveals that she might want a
00:25quote gray divorce.
00:27Do you know what gray divorces are? No?
00:30Well, you came home from the trip and you're like, I read this amazing article.
00:35I go, tell me about it.
00:36I didn't say amazing, I said fascinating.
00:38Fascinating.
00:39Fascinating article.
00:40And I go, what's it called?
00:41She goes, the astonishing rise of gray divorce.
00:44I'm like, do tell.
00:47So these are people that get divorced, you know, in their 50s.
00:51Yeah.
00:51Like, it's like after or later.
00:53Like, when you think that you're beyond, you know, you're beyond the vulnerability portion of your life.
01:00Where you're like, I've been married for 182 years.
01:04Yes.
01:04He's not going anywhere.
01:06Kelly then explains what happens during a gray divorce and some of the things that contribute to a couple separating.
01:12But it seems like the husband and wife duo might not be able to fully relate.
01:17They're saying that empty nest syndrome can contribute to that.
01:21That's a real thing.
01:22Sometimes relationships are so built upon the children that once the children leave,
01:27the couple finds that they no longer have anything in common.
01:32We still have a lot in common.
01:36Okay.
01:38I don't even know who you are anymore.
01:40I don't even know.
01:41Who are you?
01:42I come to work and it's like I'm married to a stranger.
01:45Who are you?
01:46Health problems in sickness and in health.
01:49Some people say no, not sit in sickness.
01:52You would take care of me, though.
01:54Yeah, of course.
01:55Change my diapers.
01:56Of course I would.
01:58Of course I would.
02:00Of course I would.
02:01Of course I will.
02:02I do it all the time.
02:04And while it appears Kelly and Mark, who share kids Michael, Lola, and Joaquin,
02:09aren't actually pondering a divorce of any kind,
02:13Kelly admits the narrator of the article was so fascinating that she thought,
02:17quote, oh, I want one.
02:20I listened to it.
02:21It was an article that was on audio.
02:23And you really have to hear it read to you
02:26because there's something about the narrator's voice that I find very funny.
02:30Oh, really?
02:31Yes.
02:31They're like, the astonishing rise of the gray divorce.
02:36And I was like, oh, I want one.
02:38Like, it sounds, you know, it sounds like something amazing.
02:41And then, and then you realize, oh, this is very dark subject matter.
02:46But the voice of the narrator is so soothing.
02:49And the two have made no question of how much they love each other.
02:53With Mark even giving a very special shout out to Kelly for her recent birthday.
02:58Posting to Instagram a cute montage of throwback pics of his wife,
03:02he wrote in the caption,
03:04Happy birthday, sexy.
03:06I'm so glad you were born.
03:07What a beautiful sprint around the sun.
03:10The best is yet to come.
03:12P.S.
03:12I promise not to snore so much this year.
03:16I promise not to snore.
03:18I promise not to snore.
03:23I promise not to snore.
03:24I promise not to snore.
03:25I promise not to snore.
03:27I promise not to snore.
03:28I promise not to snore.
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