Why celebrity couples always break up

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0:00 Divorce, babe, divorce
1:18 Wild
3:15 The A-List Divorce Epidemic
11:46 Dr. Tara Mooknee's Sociological Study
18:26 Empathising with rich people
20:59 What's a "civilian relationship?"
26:16 Do any couples make it?
28:21 Meet Percy! 🐈‍⬛

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[jillianmorrison]

I feel like this is the perfect place to remind people of Dolly Parton and her husband. There's maybe four public photos of them together?? None are within the last 20 years. From what we (as the public) do know about him, he's always been so supportive of her music career and has had no desire to share any of her spotlight. I do support the idea that famous-"civilian" relationships work best in the long run.

[Alteredfrenzy]

When you're poor, it can feel like the two of you against the world. When you're rich, you can just be rich by yourself somewhere else.

[neivilde.]

i love when i forget that celebrities are married, like i learned one day that ryan gosling and eva mendes were married with children and i forget that fact constantly. same for kristen dunst and jesse plemons, I'm like a child with no object permanence, if it's not in front of me, I'll totally forget

[MegCazalet]

A friend dated a very famous, very famously hot, hockey player for a few months, and she got annoyed by how many women would proposition him right in front of her while they were out trying to enjoy a date.

[sarahnelson]

Almost as if divorce wasn’t more common “back then” not because marriage was “better” but because the average person didn’t have access to it

[emmie]

the marriage foundation saying people who say they're unhappy in they're marriage say they're happier ten years after their first child. as if i want to have a kid with someone i dont like and hope i might be happier in a decade instead of just getting a divorce lmao

[SilverDragonJay]

I'm not entirely surprised by the glut of divorces in the 30s and 40s tbh. Men were pretty misogynistic back then and I'm sure being famous actresses probably gave them a lot more freedom then the average women would have had. So the average woman would have no choice but to stay in a shitty relationship, but a woman with money and _some_ degree of independent social power? It was probably easier for her to just drop the hot sack of crap...while at the same time being pressured by societal norms _to be married_ meaning instead of just staying single, a quick remarriage followed by another divorce.

idk, interesting.

[dismurrart]

I think some of it is the less talked about toxic side of theater kids too. A lot of a celebs were theater kids too and just genuinely never grow up.

[lakegroce]

I was just thinking the other day how weird it was how fast celebrities get in to and then out of relationships/marriages.

[Patchouliprince]

Being with someone famous instead of being the one who is famous sounds way better because you can just sit back and be proud of them and everyone else is like yeah this person is great and you’re like yeah that’s why I married them

[cobrakaier]

I think 3 things are mainly the cause
1) celebrity egos
2) the time they spend apart
3) the choice of possible partners that they have. It is much higher cause of the fact they are famous and usually good looking.

[annabeinglazy]

What i find weird is when people say celebrity relationships dont last and then quote relationships that lasted a decade and more. Thats quite a long time and not that different from the normal population

[sunako]

About Keanu Reeves, I don't know what kind of comments did you see, bit there was a lot of "you can do better" and dumping on his partner all of awful stuff. After that there was a wave of "let them be, they're good together so you should not care".

[michaelio]

I love it when i’m thinking of a topic for weeks and a youtuber is on the same wavelength as me and decides to post a 30 minute long video about that topic

[MichelleLalindeNoack]

I will never get over Kelly Rowland trying to text Nelly on Excel in the Dilemma video (0:15)

[searchingfororion]

I like what you said regarding het appearing couples using "partner" more recently.

I remember a coworker of my mother's (when I was a teen) was surprised that she knew he was gay and asked how she figured out - my mom replied, "A few months back I asked what you were doing for the holidays and you mentioned spending time with your *partner."* He was *mortified* for the 'slip.'

[AlexanderSkinnerVids]

Greenscreen Tara is groundbreaking. When are we gonna get greenscreen cow?

[reneew]

Re: why Matt Damon and Guy From Wedding Crashers might say "civilian" to describe their partners. The only reason I can think of is that legally, there is a difference between civilians and public figures when it comes to defamation lawsuits. Public figures suing someone for defamation have different criteria for winning their case than civilians who are suing someone for defamation. At least in the United States. In the U.S., in order to win a defamation case, public figures have to prove that 1) the statement made about them is not true, and 2) that the person who made the statement did so with malicious intent. Civilians don't have to prove either of those things in order to win a defamation case (though it certainly helps).

This has been a fun fact from a longtime viewer who paid attention in their Media Law class. Lol. Much love from the states!! (Fundie Fridays shouted you out in their newest video btw, we need another collab)

[uucjctj]

I think whether the “being in the same field as your partner” thing is a negative for the relationship, really depends on the kind of field. My partner and I both are hydraulic engineers, and we spend so much of our time talking about neat hydraulics problems… and we’ve never had any competition issues of the sort. We are always just super supportive of each other and happy to learn from one another. Even when applying for jobs out of grad school, we both happened to apply for the same one. When only one of us was called back for interviews, we just celebrated the fact. So it can work, but it definitely requires the right dynamic.

[rebymunster]

Dolly Parton is a VERY famous example of a huge celebrity being successfully married to a “normie”/civilian. It could be bc they had been together from before her fame (I think). I’m not sure many gave her grief… as far as I know a lot of the public admired her private lowkey marriage situation. I always thought it was kinda unique and cool but I learned there’s even more actors out their with their civilian wives 😋 love your channel Tara!!