The story of Jon and Kate....

Imagine that you fall crazy in love - weak-in-the-knees, you-are-the-one love. You marry and decide to start a family because this is the person you want to be with for the rest of your life, and children are that natural path....only you can't do it the old fashion way. So , money and injected hormones later - twin girls! You're happy, over the moon! What could be better? You decided, a few years later, that another baby would just add to this amazing life you have built together, so away you go! More money, more injected hormones and wham! You having sextuplets! Wow - how is this going to work? But you remind yourself, at the end of the day, at least you have each other....

Then your prayers are answered....some channel wants to tell your story in the form of a one hour documentary! The public loves it! They gobble up your stress, tears, laughter. A follow-up is order, and then a series. Lights and cameras move in, following every move, spat, biting comment - it all makes for great television. And the kids - oh, the kids! So precious! So precocious! Look at them fight! Look at them smear pudding on the window! Look at them grow! Awwwwww!

However, there is a shift. The show is now a caricature of you - the screaming fish monger's wife and the hen-pecked husband. Interactions are tense and, at times, cruel. You are raising eight children in a fish bowl, a fish bowl you created in exhange for finicial compinsation, but a fish bowl none the less. Its not fun anymore - its painful. The audience starts to wonder why you're still together, then speculate that it must be for the sake of the children.....or that someone has drunk himself into oblivion and is feeling no pain. You know how you are being protrayed; however, you tell yourself that its all in the editing, that it doesn't matter, that you can pull the plug anytime....that you're in control.

So what is left? A marriage is destroyed. Eight children are left with a splintered home. The person who was once "the one" is a now a stranger. Where did the love go? What happened? And for what? Four complete seasons of a family that may not exist anymore.

And it all began when you met, fell crazy in love and decided that you wanted to live happily ever after.....

The end.