Celebs and media ruining relationships?

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Registered: 04-13-2006
Celebs and media ruining relationships?
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Thu, 03-29-2007 - 2:20pm

I read an article on yahoo today about how celeb relationships ruin people's relationships because they either make people set unrealistic expectations of who we want to be with or the fact that so many relationships fail and end badly(at least the ones that get media attention) that it makes people even more insecure in relationships and can take a toll on people's lives together.

What does everyone thing about this? I agree with it to the extent that all you ever hear about is bad relationships(celebrity or not) but you never hear about a couple who has been together for 20 or 30 years and have never cheated on each other or been in danger of divorcing each other.

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Registered: 05-14-1999
Thu, 03-29-2007 - 2:45pm

I saw that article too. I don't know, I think it depends on who's reading that stuff and how much. I'll sometimes buy those rags to thumb through during my lunch hour but I usually do not even read the articles that accompany the pics, LOL.

I disagree with you about the latter, though. I do occasionally witness the media pointing out long lasting, successful relationships such as: Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, Paul Newman and JoAnne Woodward . . .

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Registered: 07-30-2004
Thu, 03-29-2007 - 6:01pm

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I think that 80% of relationships are crappy and they have been that way since humans deviated from the Bonobo ideal of daily haphazard friendly shags. Celebrities, being, for the most part, shallow narcisistic drug addled unstable fools who have bimbos/himbos throwing themselves at them all the time, should be applauded for managing to keep a relationship going for even a month. Given their handicaps, that is a feat of monogomy (or approximate monogamy).