till infidelity or boredom do us part..

this day in age it seems like every time i turn on the tv or radio i hear about another celebrity couple that is breaking up or getting a divorce.  whether it's courtney cox-arquette and david arquette or eva longoria parker and tony parker.  couples that seemed like they were going to last suddenly split.  it's almost like the thing to do in hollywood is get married to someone you co-starred with, i won't even go into the psychological background supporting this trend, and then a few years, or months even, down the road file for a divorce.  i've noticed with celebrities and people in the spotlight infidelity and boredom, aka irreconcilable differences, tend to be the two biggest reasons for divorce.  i understand growing apart, i mean it could happen to anyone and it is really no one's fault, but this recent string of celebrities cheating on each other has me thrown for a loop.  sandra bullock and jesse james. the aforementioned eva longoria-parker and tony parker. jennifer anniston and brad pitt.  i think i can speak for most people when i say that i absolutely never saw it coming.



i realize that divorce happens in normal people's lives everyday, for the same reasons it happens to celebrities, since they are also people afterall.  my concern lies with the image of marriage and love that is being created by celebrities since basically every aspect of their lives are under the spotlight.  how can we be expected not to imitate these same tendencies and even pass them on to our children.  i think brad paisley said best in his song celebrity (video featured above) when he said "i can fall in and out of love/ have marriages that barely last a month/ when they go down the drain/ i'll blame it on the fame/ and the pressures that go with/ and say it's just so tough/ being a celebrity."  it's almost like celebrities really do use their fame as an excuse, as if it affects their ability to stay faithful or actually look for true love.  i just wonder if these celebrities ever stop and think for one second about the big picture and how they are affecting how society views marriage and love.