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Revoking the Marriage License.Why are people who are so bad at mating for life allowed to keep pairing up?Barring a last-minute reconciliation, Larry King is about to get unhitched for the eighth time. This despite the fact that his wife, Shawn Southwick, is 26 years younger and about a foot taller than he is. In other words, a perfect match. Nevertheless, it seems likely that the ex-Mrs. King club will soon welcome its seventh member only seven, because one of the Mrs. Kings served two tours. And Mr. King will be back in the dating pool.Losing a life partner or two could happen to anyone, but going through seven requires some effort. The vast majority of Americans about 97% - wimp out收到惊吓，失去勇气 and do not wed more than three times. As an octospouse查不到，根据构词法可能是octo-spouse，是结婚8次的人, the 76-year-old King is in rarefied company. Elizabeth Taylor also hatched and dispatched eight unions. (Recent reports of a ninth have proved erroneous.) So has Mickey Rooney. Zsa Zsa Gabor has been married nine times. William Shatner has an impressive number of exes, as do Billy Bob Thornton and Joan Collins. Like news anchoring, the field of extreme spouse collecting is dominated by women who were once considered very good-looking and men who almost never were.The official record holder until recently, its gratifying to note, was not celebrity. The late Linda Wolfe of Indiana had 23 ex-husbands, although she admitted she married the last one as a publicity stunt. The other 22 were thus completely, totally genuine and heartfelt, and when last contacted by the press, Wolfe said she wouldnt mind marrying again. She was hoping for a straight man异性恋的男性，有时候简称straight，同性恋有时候被称为bend_; on the two occasions she married a gay guy, it didnt take.All of which raises the question: How many marriages are too many? Statistics show that more second marriages break up than first ones and more third marriages about 75% - break up than second ones. Given that trajectory（思考）轨迹, shouldnt a referee step in after the third of fourth and suspend play for the good of all?In no other area of life can grown people flame out so often and so badly and still get official permission to go ahead and do the same thing again. If your driving is hazardous to those around you, your license is suspended. Fail too many courses at college, and youll get kicked out. You can lose your medical or law license for a single infraction. Stock analyst Henry Blodget was prohibited from trading securities forever for publicly saying things he knew werent true. So why do people who are committed vows abusers keep getting handed marriage licenses at city hall? If batters and violent offenders get only three strikes, why should bad spouses get more?Of course, a lot of people will say this is nobodys business but the bride and grooms. Plus, its natural. Evolution favors the alpha-male serial monogamist一夫一妻论者 who bonds with a mate until she gets old and is replaced by a more fertile one. Other primates change partners all the time. But other primates also practice infanticide and poop throwing, and were not about to sanction either of those. So why are we complicit in allowing people to make big public promises they have demonstrated a chronic inability to keep? When we pore over their wedding pictures in PEOPLE, its as enabling as installing a fun-house mirror in the bathroom of an anorexic厌食症患者.Its not that the multiple marriers want to get divorced or hate marriage. Its that they like it too much, even though its not good for them. So perhaps applicants for, say, a fifth marriage license should be required to get therapy. Obsessive clean freaks有洁癖的强迫症患者, for example, are trained to touch something dirty and then wait increasingly long intervals before they wash. Someone like King could be introduced to a tall blonde and then be made to wait 10 minutes before proposing. From there, he could work up to a full hour.Marital addicts might also be issued a patch, like those that smokers trying to quit use. Instead of delivering a diminishing supply of nicotine, the Matrimonial Rough PatchTM could simulate the emotions of being hitched. After an initial euphoric bonding period, wearers would start to feel irritable, misunderstood and then taken for granted and vaguely repulsed the entire nuptial cycle, and nobody needs a lawyer.Then again, perhaps we should just leave the serial splitters alone. Theres a little of Liz and Larry and Linda in every couple; we are all occasionally convinced that we married the wrong person. If King has taught us anything I mean anything apart from how to wear suspenders with a straight