Marriage Rant
I have a secret obsession. I love trashy gossip magazines. I crave them. I love looking at the pictures of the beautiful people, and reading about their lives. Its sick, I know. So, when I’m at the gym I make a beeline for the magazine rack and then spend 30 minutes happily ignoring the pain that the elliptical is inflicting on my body by filling my mind with trashy gossip about people who are barely real.
I’ve noticed a trend lately. It seems like the new fad in Hollywood (besides those stupid ‘tattooed’ trucker hats) is to find another famous person, fall into puppy love, have a huge lavish wedding, then have an equally fabulous divorce 4-12 months later. The most amazing thing about this is that we, the adoring public, eat it all up. We WANT to know why Brad and Jen didn’t work out. We want to know if Rene found her new husband was cheating. We find ourselves reading on to find out if Denise and Charlie really can get their act together.
Yesterday I got to thinking about this whole marriage thing. Honestly, I do feel like marriage as an institution is not taken as seriously as it used to be. Aside from Hollywood, I’ve known quite a few people who just didn’t seem to get that it was meant to be forever. Obviously people can change, but I can’t ever understand the feeling that some people have that there’s always divorce to fall back on in case it doesn’t work. Why get married in the first place if you’re not sure?
Now to the point I want to make (bet you didn’t see this coming): I’m amazed that there are people in this world who will go out of their way to insist that two people who are in love and want to be married could possibly be ruining the sanctity of marriage, just because they are the same sex. So what of these celebrities who actually ARE ruining the sanctity of marriage? These are public figures who have a total disregard for the very idea of marriage. For them its about having a big party and getting publicity, on both the marriage and the divorce ends. Yet I don’t read stories about people picketing outside of city halls to keep celebrities from marrying.
