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We've witnessed too many crashes and burns to count - Brad and Jen, Sandra and Jesse, Tiger and Elin, Susan and Tim. Some couples fell victim to the ravages of conflicting schedules and drifting ideals, while others succumbed to the cliche of the wandering eye.
Whatever the reason, Hollywood's relationship dissolution chart continues to climb faster than the nation's already staggering divorce rates. It makes you wonder if we're better off leaning towards the tried and true George Clooney method of an active and ever-changing love life. At least he seems consistently happy.
Susan Sarandon put it well when she recently said, "You bring people into your life at certain times. Maybe you have a relationship to have children, and you realize that it's fulfilled after that point."
"Your relationship with people...has to be a growing organism," she continues. "It's not something where you reach a certain point and then you start preserving it. You have to nurture it, you have to stay curious and hungry and foolish. Once you stop doing that, you get satisfied, and you get stuck."
The latest couple to face the rumor mill's divorce rumblings is Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore (my unofficial, cougarriffic life coach). With scandal surrounding Ashton's alleged infidelities, the couple can't seem to enjoy a simple night out at the movies without being pitied for putting on a brave face.
I haven't been privy to Ashton's sexual escapades as of late but is it all too optimistic of this Dirt Dishing Dame to believe that perhaps Kutcher should be held innocent until proven guilty? As of right now, we have only the musings of an admittedly "obsessed" fan claiming she has text messages from a man saved as Ashton in her phone.
Not to call the 'lil lady a liar, but I could easily save my college dorm mate, Dustin, in my phone as "Johnny Depp" and send a variety of suggestive texts to him in the hopes that my self-deception will somehow become a reality. I'm just saying.
But should it really be so easy to stir up these headlines anyway? At the end of the day, I worry that love doesn't have a whole heckuva lot to do with many of these Hollywood unions. Not that deeply committed couples don't split up everyday, because they do, but all too often you see lackadaisical celebs hopping in and out of marriage like a merry-go-round with the attitude that if it doesn't work you can always hire Liz Taylor's divorce attorney and move on.
I'm not a traditionalist and I'm not even a huge proponent of marriage (for myself at least) but for those who do get hitched, I'd hope they're doing it for the right reasons to at least preserve the sanctity of it for others.
There are too many folks out there (gay Americans unite!) who want nothing more than the legal right to say "I do" to their one true love. So I'm a bit discouraged by those making a mockery of the institution just because they can and say "I do" when they should be screaming "I don't - or at least let's talk about this" first.
To Demi and Ashton - don't let the man get you down. Age difference or no, you guys seem to have it together in a way that Britney Spears and Charlie Sheen do not. So if you find yourselves struggling because of the paparazzi outside your door, ask yourself what love's got to do with it and pack it in for the night.
If Bruce Willis backs your union, then so do I.
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