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FILED FOR DIVORCE. Whitney Houston, 43, pop diva; from her husband, former New Edition singer Bobby Brown, 37; after a rocky 14-year marriage during which Brown did numerous stints in jail and Houston twice entered rehab for substance abuse; in Orange County, California. The couple, whose tumultuous relationship was on display in last year's reality-TV show Being Bobby Brown, have a daughter, Bobbi Kristina...
...does he want to destroy me in my old age?" ANTHONY MERCIECA, Catholic priest, 72, who last week admitted that he had an intimate two-year relationship with Mark Foley in the 1960s when the ex-Congressman was an altar boy in Florida...
Meckelson estimates that "75% of our letters deal with relationship issues." The other 25%, he says, focus on issues like business, career and personal debt. The obvious question, of course, is why so many people would ask a perfect, and unseen, stranger for advice on such sensitive matters. Anonymity, for starters, says David M., 20, a college student who found EWC by going to Google and typing in "free advice." David, who prefers to remain anonymous, says overly critical parents are another factor causing young people to look for outside help. "My father has always been pretty tough...
...some people. But thanks to new breakup services--think the opposite of dating agencies--wannabe ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends can tell their partner it's over without having to say it themselves. You can have it done on TV: on her Oxygen show Breaking Up, Shannen Doherty ends relationships that have gone sour. A lower-profile agent is German entrepreneur Bernd Dressler, nicknamed "the Terminator." He will dump your significant other by phone (the "Let's Stay Friends" call and the more insistent "Stay Away" cost $25 each) or in person ($63). Then there's a less human option...
INSERT EMOTICON FOR "EWWWW" HERE The priest who had his own inappropriate relationship with the congressional-page-stalking Mark Foley when Foley was a teen comes forward. Anthony Mercieca says he did NOT have sexual relations with that man, just some skinny-dipping and nude saunas: "I don't know what I did to him." Of course, that's why you have to save the chat...