Why Do Hollywood Couples Divorce
Divorce is not that common in the United States, but it is somewhat more common in the United Kingdom.
The US divorce rate is hovering around 40%. The UK rate is 50%, with slightly more men getting divorced than women. According to the BBC, “The UK has seen 6,000 divorces every day in the past decade - enough to fill Central Park every 12 minutes.
It is the biggest divorce wave since the Second World War.”
While Hollywood relationships seem to stay together in the movies, in real life they don’t. Why do Hollywood couples divorce?
These are just a few of the main reasons cited by the BBC for why celebrity couples divorce.
Hollywood has too many problems in a relationship. They argue about money, spending habits, marriage, kids, etc. They want to be apart.
Many celebrities divorce because of a lack of communication. In a relationship, communication is key. You should be able to share your feelings with your partner, and if you can’t or don’t, you should know how to resolve the issue.
It is perfectly OK to share your feelings with your partner, but don’t withhold important information just to hide it. People that withhold information from their partner always regret it.
If you can’t be open with your partner, you need to find someone else.
Children are a major cause of marriage breakup
Many couples end up hating each other because of the children. You know how kids can be.
They get up in the middle of the night and are all over the place. It is important for parents to make a united front, and tell the children that they love each other and want a united family, but that Mommy and Daddy are going to need some alone time sometimes.
If you love your partner, you are going to need to spend time with each other, away from the kids.
People that put their families first end up in happy and long lasting relationships. This is not what Hollywood teaches you.
People in happy, long-lasting relationships spend a lot of time together. In addition, they will work to make sure that the relationship is strong, and that all of the important things are addressed before the children enter the picture.
Not only that, but children that grow up in healthy and happy relationships typically grow up to be good, kind people themselves. If they are in a family with two parents that love each other and spend a lot of time together, it is very unlikely that they will end up in any type of tumultuous relationship themselves.
Children are so fragile. You never know how they are going to turn out, and the older they get, the more complicated things get.
In addition, a lot of the time, parents get tired of the kids fighting, and tired of having to pay a babysitter money. People that don’t have to pay a babysitter money every time they want to go out have a much easier time splitting up.
We are a culture of One-Trick Cha-Chas
People want to be loved, but they are not willing to put in the work to be loved. Hollywood never seems to address this.
Yes, you can “fall in love” quickly and effortlessly, but it is not sustainable. The minute the “flash” of infatuation wears off, you’re back to square one.
Love can’t sustain a relationship. You can be completely in love with someone, and still want to get away from them. For example, you met someone at a bar and you just want to call it quits.
Or, you met someone on match.com and you just want to stop talking to them. You’ve got the situation you have now in mind. There is no need to tell this person.
The minute you have a hard time enjoying your time together anymore, you know it is over. Because in Hollywood, relationships are only like that once.
Once you have married a celebrity, you can get divorced in an afternoon. There is no reason for you to say anything to your partner.
Do it and get it over with. It is the best way.
I understand that Hollywood is a business, and that you want people to believe that you are in love when you want them to believe that you are in love.
However, this is not what love is. Love is putting in the work to make it work.
Hollywood seems to imply that if you are not completely consumed by a celebrity, you are not truly in love.
People don’t put in the work to make their relationships work. When I married my husband, I was 23 years old and we had dated for over two years.
We were living together, had a dog, and were totally in love. He wasn’t famous, and I didn’t expect him to be.
If we had kept dating for much longer, I don’t think I would have ended up in the situation that I am in now, where I have a daughter and we are living happily ever after.
You have to put in the work
It is very possible to make things work with a celebrity. I am living proof of this.
My husband was not a celebrity, and I was not interested in starting a family with him. However, we did get married.
Yes, it was not an easy road. I took a chance. There was a period of time when I was so desperate for some normalcy in my life that I was considering not being with my husband, and leaving him to go back to my old life.
But what is normal? I was living with him, we had a house together, and we were paying the bills. We had a son.
There was nothing strange about us. We were just normal people, trying to make things work.
And you know what? We did make it work. My son and I are happy now.
Here is my secret to making things work with a celebrity. You have to commit.
You have to be there. You have to do all the things that your partner doesn’t want to do, and all the things that your partner wants to do but doesn’t want to do.
But you have to do them anyway, even though you feel resentful. A lot of my friends and I got married to famous men because we wanted the love and commitment that marriage could offer.
However, after getting married, I was very disillusioned. I felt like my husband wanted me to do all these things that I didn’t want to do, and he had the ability to tell me to stop doing them.
I just wanted to do what he wanted. That is not what marriage is about.
I don’t know many couples who would want to be together for thirty-plus years just because they want to.