Trendspotting: The No-See-Em Divorce

My wife, a trendspotter, reports that two couples she knows have now achieved no-see-em divorces.  Both couples were highly sensitive to their public image and didn't want the tongues wagging. So when their marriages ran out of gas in middle age, in each case the wife moved to a different place/city and it was explained that she had to go there for her career. Everything was hunkydory, and it all seemed perfectly sophisticated. No one understood this at the time. Well now years have passed in each case and the marriages have been dissolved without the explosion, the gossip, the humiliation, the crushing sense of public failure, the take-no-prisoners friend division, etc. In journalism you're supposed to have three examples to justify a trend but I think this is really happening. And it seems to work.