The company's stock has split three times in 19 months. Clapp and her husband, Bill, have been married 31 years. Now, she sees him only on weekends. We can survive this. The area's steep cost of living, wedded with the soaring value of couples' assets, makes it tough to dissolve marriages.
Many couples simply stay together.
We have married couples who consider themselves divorced living in the same house, dating other people. She adds that many don't move because they need dual incomes to pay mortgages or because one partner is convinced the other will hit it big with stock if his or her Internet employer goes public. To avoid untidy divorces, some take arguably extreme measures. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison had his third wife sign a prenuptial agreement on their wedding day. Messy custody cases.