Today I was talking with some Canadian friends about what is now in Canada called “employment insurance” — insurance in the event one fails to remain employed. In the U.S. this is called “unemployment insurance”.<\/p>\n
One of my friends argued that we in the U.S. have this backwards. After all, health insurance is not called “sickness insurance”, and life insurance is not called “death insurance”.<\/p>\n
It then occurred to me that couples should be able to take out insurance in the event they have a falling out that leads to divorce. If my Canadian friend is right, this should be called “love insurance”.<\/p>\n
Perhaps there could be lower priced alternatives, if you can’t afford the high premium payments for full-on love insurance. One could imagine a descending scale, to insure the maintenance of more problematic relationships.<\/p>\n
For perhaps half the rate of the premium policy, you could take out “`You could do worse’ insurance”.<\/p>\n
Below that would be “`I am really not<\/i> going to argue with you about this’ insurance”.<\/p>\n
And if you are seriously strapped for cash, you can always get the bargain basement “`What am I, chopped liver?’ insurance”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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