We’ve heard for some time that Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn’t want to lose his wife of 25 years, Maria Shriver, and has been trying to win her back. Shriver officially filed for divorce in July, signifying that she wanted to finally step away from her marriage and all the scandals and infidelity that she was subjected to. Only now that he’s had a taste of life without his devoted wife, Arnie can’t stand it and has been trying to win her back. It’s been working too, according to articles in both People Magazine and TMZ. Damnit, Maria, just take half the money and coparent. Walk away with your dignity intact.
A source close to the family tells PEOPLE the two spent Christmas together with their children at their home in Brentwood, Calif., and they “had a really nice time” over the holiday.
According to the source, they also attended the Los Angeles Lakers’ season opener game at the Staples Center in the afternoon.
Spending time together, however, isn’t unprecedented for the two.
Since their split, Shriver, 56, was by her ex’s side on his 64th birthday in July.
“Children and family come first,” a source close to the estranged couple told PEOPLE earlier this year, with an additional insider adding, “Arnold and Maria will always come together when it comes to supporting and loving their children.”
The family Christmas celebration comes amid online reports that Shriver is having second thoughts about ending her marriage.
The former couple, married 25 years before announcing their separation in May, have four children together: Katherine, Christina, Patrick and Christopher. – From People
Maria Shriver is telling friends she’s now unsure if she wants to divorce Arnold Schwarzenegger … TMZ has learned.
We’re told Maria is torn, partly because of her strong religious beliefs that do not include divorce.
Making matters even more complicated — we’re told Arnold still desperately wants Maria back, and has been “extremely sweet” to her and has made numerous gestures — which include presents — to win Maria back.
Maria filed for divorce on July 1, though she moved out months earlier. She’s already bought a mansion in Brentwood, CA, which she’s in the process of renovating. – From TMZ
I know that they have to do what they feel is right for their family, and that it’s their business if they want to work it out. Arnold cheated on Maria in her own bed with the maid that worked for their family for 20 years, and had a child with that woman 14 years ago without ever telling his wife. How do you move past something like that? Do you just ignore all the massive betrayals, and try to push the doubt out of your mind that he did it to you every year, maybe every month, that you were married? How can you ever trust that person again? I get that Maria may feel like Arnold is the love of her life. At some point, though, you have to cut your losses and realize that it’s not worth it. Of course the dude can act all sweet and buy presents after he’s been thoroughly busted. He is incapable of being faithful, and that’s probably not going to change at all in his twilight years. This disappoints me.
Maria and Arnold are shown at a tree lighting ceremony on 11/21/10. Credit: WENN.com. She’s shown alone on 11/29/11. Credit: Buzzpaps/Fame Pictures
Yeah, that’s a lot to overlook and forgive!
He lied to her and humiliated her every day for years and years.
I do not know what kind of self-loathing genes are in the Kennedy women, but they sure as hell have them.
I noticed that in all the pictures she is leaning away from him. I think her sub-conscience is trying to tell her something.
Love the black boots.
Now I suspect Arnold is being so sweet… has something to do with him having to write Maria a big ass check. The check she will get when the divorce becomes final.
He is not going to change his ways. He is grown. He will not change. If she stays, she needs to realize he is going to humiliate her again.
But I bet Arnold would have a different view, if she had been the one cheating for decades.
Could you image how badly he would behave, to have to face the public daily, knowing his wife had screwed around on him. He would make it a point that she never got a dime of “his money”.
Maria needs to divorce him. Get her check. And use him for a booty call, when she gets bored. 🙂
Oh, I just LOVE how hypocritical men get when the shoe’s on the other foot!
I highly doubt he would stay with her if he found out their 14 year-old son wasn’t his!
if she does go back, i will have lost any respect i ever had for her. for a woman to let herself be humiliated again and again by her husband is just pathetic.
she can hide behind excuses (religion/kids), but at this point it would just be because she has a sick need to be treated like garbage.
Ditto! Very well-put. She should not reconcile with him because their kids are all old enough to see that their father humiliated their mother and made a mockery of their whole family!
He didn’t just hide the maid’s boy from Maria, but from them too! I hope that the children will
urge their mother to stand firm.
If she does decide to stay with him, she will deserve every bit of the backlash she’ll get.
Is she Catholic or something? In most christian religions (lutheran, baptist, etc) the circumstances for divorcing your spouse is infidelity. Unless she belongs to some ultra conservative church, God says dump his cheating butt!
I think that I could forgive infidelity if it happened and he was willing to say he was wrong and we try to fix it. But the moment a kid is involved….he should have told her the minute he found out the woman was pregnant.
How did Maria find out about his affair?
I believe she is catholic as is most of the Kennedy clan. JFK was catholic.
CB, I think you meant “Arnold doesn’t want to part with half the money he’s made over 25 years.” Must’ve been a typo. 😉
I can undersand that ending 25 years of life is tough, but if she takes him back,and he will cheat her again, because he will do…. no simpathy for her at all.
Tiger Woods ex wife should teach classes on how move on after ending a marriage to a cheating douche.
I just don’t know why she would do this. Their children are older and their son is not a baby.. neither is his other young son
Just don’t get where her mind set is on this.
Great example for her daughters. Your husband can have an affair, make a child right in your house with a staff member, but you should stay with him because it’s against God. I’m so glad I’m not religious.
Lets be clear in the Bible It states that adultery is a sin, So you indicating thank god I’m not religious has no bearings on this particular situation.
No kidding, huh, Toot? Oh, and Amen! (lol)
Totally agree – what does her religion have to say on your husband fathering a child with someone else right under your nose? Ridiculous.
When and where are the game pictures from? It states they went to a game at the Staples Center in LA and there is snow in the picture. They are also wearing heavy coats. Very misleading, celebitchy!
She is addicted to the power that comes with his celebrity as much as he is drawn to keeping their pot of gold together. This is the same thing Kobe is doing. Sickening that there is a possibility that either one of these ladies would consider. You can’t change a zebra’s stripes!
I doubt she will leave, but she looks like a damn fool.
I am also glad I’m not religious. Nothing should have a hold of you like that to force you to make decisions that are not in your best interests. It is her decision if she goes back to him but if religion makes the decision for her, that is just wrong.
Maria is a Catholic, yes? Well I’m a Christian and I know the Bible states that someone should leave the marriage if adultery is committed. Blame the woman, not the religion.
It is not God that says you can’t get a divorce, it is the Pope. Arnold commited a sin outlawed by the Ten Commandments, so, he is the guilty one. If she wanted to follow God’s law, she would dump him for being an obvious sinner.
So, she is just using excuses, not reasons if she stays with him. He played her for a fool and if she takes him back, I guess he was right.
From the moment I was born, I was raised a devout Roman Catholic. I went to church & catechism as a child 6 days a week. Catholic school…Catholic University. In other words…I was fully indoctrinated. When I divorced my first husband there was such an uproar. My parents disowned me. I was excommunicated from the church & forbidden to receive the Sacraments. Well, let me tell you…I had to do a whole lot of soul searching & it took a very long time to realize I’d been brainwashed…no easy thing to overcome. I can totally understand Maria’s mindset. She needs time to break the programming & shake off the guilt.
The Catholic Church’s strictures against divorce are based primarily on Jesus’s remarks in the Gospels about divorce and remarriage. There are arguments to be made that the New Testament leaves an exemption condoning remarriage by a Christian after divorce if the divorce was due to the other partner’s infidelity, but Jesus (as reported by the writers of the Gospels, anyway) was quite explicit that, in general, remarriage after divorce was equivalent to adultery. There is certainly NO encouragement provided in the New Testament for automatically divorcing spouses if they are unfaithful.
I’m not a Christian and think whether two people get divorced is their business, so I don’t have any skin in the theological game here. I do think people invoking the Bible should check their scriptures first, though.
It’s a TRAP!
As much of an arse he was after the media announced she was splitting, she would look like an idiot to stay with him.
Look, I get why Hillary did it. Bitch was on a mission and her vision went well beyond the marriage. She had a country to run and was thinking about her own political aspirations. Power plays, like Vanessa Bryant’s, I don’t mind. It’s what those dumb ass men deserve.
But Maria is a f—ing Kennedy. She doesn’t NEED Arnold for anything. A Kennedy-Shriver is enough for her to do whatever the hell she wants to do with her life and he always needed her name to get him into those political foyers.
So, if she gets back with him, I too am going to be like, WTF?
I think hilary made a mistake taking bill back too…had she left his cheating ass behind, I would have more respect for her and her decision-making skills…
Most of the comments indicate that maybe her religion has something to di with her wanting to stay. What religion were it Cleary states that adultery is a sin. A sin is a transgression of religious or moral law, especially when deliberate. So please lets take religion out of this.
Might want to read the excerpt: “We’re told Maria is torn, partly because of her strong religious beliefs that do not include divorce.”
IIRC, Jackie Kennedy’s long time love didn’t get divorced because his wife didn’t believe in it.
So religion (or misinterpretation of religion) might be playing a part in her decision to divorce and is therefore going to get mentioned.
“Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews …” (Wikipedia). Her belief system, Catholicism, does not recognize divorce. So lets blame religion because it’s the problem.
I think she’s reconsidering because she wants to keep her family together and she still has love for him. But, Arnold sleeping with her maid, on her own bed, is not forgivable. He did this for years! Arnold is a dog.
I hope Maria (and Vanessa Bryant) have the courage to move on. Enough is enough.
It says a lot about what he knows about the Kennedy clan…if he ever wanted to reveal the nasty secrets.
Stay and blame it on religion.
Well, no more “Maria this and Maria that” from Arnold. The world would mock him.
Maria didn’t once look at that kid’s face & body and ask Arnold about him? Her friends and children never said anything?
I would have. All their friends are as rich as they are. Why not say something to your Maria?
What did Arnold think, he was royalty with bastard children running around the palace?
Does she not have the best head of hair ever?
why yes…yes, she does. *sigh*
Read the story and looked at the pics then felt kinda “missing-the-point” badly because my first thought was That Is Some Fantastic F’ing Hair!
Now, see, I was wondering why it was snowing in the Staples Center and just exactly how cold it was in LA & Brentwood.
The went to the Lakers game together. That wasn’t for the kids. They’re seeing each other again obviously.
Arnold hates to lose. He’s a charmer and is skilled in getting whatever he wants. He bagged Maria once, he can do it again. It’s a guy thing. And she’s falling for the lovebombing again. Not a woman of great moral fibre if all is true. Feh. A pox on them both, the depraved losers.
Interesting take on it. My co-worker is in her fifties, attractive. But she told me as a woman in your mid fifties does a number on you being single and menopause hitting. She told me not to judge Maria as she obviously has always loved Arnold.
I can see that for your run-of-the-mill fiftysomething lady. But Maria isn’t just in good shape and attractive enough (she’s a little skeletor for me), but she’s also wealthy and a freaking Kennedy. She’ll have no shortage of men of a certain age looking to get in on that, to put it bluntly; old friends, acquaintances, what have you. Yeah it’s scary and uncertain. But I’m sorta like — have some dignity already. Life’s a freaking adventure, and we all only get one go-round.
ITA…she is no ordinary woman, with no independent means to survive…she is rich as hell…certainly some women remain with a cheating husband when they have children and no income of their own, and feel they couldn’t make it financially on their own…Maria is rich as all hell and will have no problem taking care of herself and her children…
Maria needs to stick to her guns and walk away. Arnold is a cheating, lying douche who didn’t even acknowledge his own son until he was outed.
He’s never going to change, and Maria deserves better.
They had an open relationship for years and he was the biggest womanizer in Hollywood only rivaled by Kevin Costner. She had her side projects as well. The final straw was the siring of a child not the actual sexual acts themselves.
It is feasible she would forgive since she doesn’t want a divorce due to Catholicism.
Celebitchy, I couldn’t agree more, with your whole post. She would really be humiliating herself if she backpedaled and reunited with him. I don’t see how she could move on from him siring a child with the help. I’m very open minded and could forgive some minor “wandering,” but that’s not minor. That’s unforgivable. I hope she retains her dignity and follows through with the divorce.
I don’t get the pitty party that Shriver has been receiving lately. She announced her husband’s betrayal and their separation at a far too convenient time for both of them: when his political career was finished. This is my roundabout way of saying that I do not believe for a second that she wasn’t aware of her husband’s infidelity/ies. She was, she was just waiting for the most opportune moment to blow it all up. The Kennedy women have a long history of putting up with marital infidelity and a love of power (especially of the political variety) and she seems to fit right in with the rest of them. I do not wish to judge her: she should do what makes her happy, whether that involves Arnold or not. One thing bugs me though, the bastard has been accused not only of infidelity but also of serious sexual missconduct (assault?) and his wife – whom, I stress, I do not for a second believe not to have been aware of her husband’s wandering eye, as they say – ‘stood by him’, thereby helping to effectively brush the whole matter under the carpet. If those accusations were true and she as little as doubted them to be true, I feel absolutely no sympathy for her. To hell with the both of them.
First Demi & now you Maria. Ladies, take a look at Robyn Gibson. She’s religious too apparently, but she had the sense & balls to walk away & got $400 million to boot.
You ladies have nothing left to lose. Demi came out looking like a loony-bin candidate. Now Maria too.
I’ve always thought that if the maid story had never become public, Maria wouldn’t have left. I think that it was only her first instinct to leave because of her fear that it would affect her media career, but when all the hoopla started dying down, she did what she probably has always done – look the other way & enjoy being Mrs. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Careful now. Let’s not call his child a bastard – even indirectly. That is a horrible thing to say. He could be reading this you know. He has done nothing wrong in this and I am sure is a wonderful young man.
I’m a bastard. My parents never got married. Whatever. Bastard and proud. We make the world go round.
But he does not qualify as a bastard because he was born into wedlock and the maid’s husband accepted him as his own. That a bastard does not make.
She obviously still loves him, let’s hope he learned his lesson although I doubt it.
If she gets back with him she will be the dumbest woman in the world. I don’t think I could even look at the guy much less attend his birthday party.
That’s hilarious, she’s an idiot
Nice boots…bags..et al
they’ve spent many years together and have children whose psychology was affected by the recent scandals. what do you expect?
Many Catholics divorce. They may be more conservative about it than “most” but they still divorce (or annull the marriage) So one cannot use that “excuse” anymore. Being Catholic most certainly does not mean allowing yourself to be humiliated, endure emotional and psychological abuse and lifelong deceit in the name of religion and family.