It feels like it’s been weeks since we’ve heard anything about the Dorito-dust-covered Bermuda Triangle of Gwyneth Paltrow, Chris Martin and Jennifer Lawrence. The last I heard, J-Law and Chris were still kind of trying to make it work and Gwyneth may or may not have been drunkenly panicking about it because Goop really thought that she had successfully broken those two up. Maybe she’s still trying? E! News reported on Wednesday that Chris and Gwyneth reunited last weekend and that overall, their relationship is better than ever:
It’s no secret that Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin may have had the most amicable split in Hollywood, most recently reuniting for some quality family time with their two kids over the weekend. And while their friendly outings have raised some speculation of a reconciliation, a source tells E! News that the two have simply “found something that works,” adding that we all should expect to see more of the consciously uncoupled pair.
“Their relationship is better than ever since they separated,” a source tells us of Oscar winner and the Coldplay musician, who announced their separation in March. “They have found something that works really well for them and their children.”
The parents of Apple, 10, and Moses, 8, have been able to maintain a mutual level of respect since calling it quits and have even supported each other in their subsequent relationships (Martin was most recently linked to Jennifer Lawrence, although the two broke up last month, while Paltrow has been seen out on numerous occasions with Glee co-creator Brad Falchuck).
“They are best friends and there is a ton of love and respect between them,” the source explains of the Hollywood duo. “Because they have made a commitment to put their kids first and keep the family unit together as much as possible, the pressure is off the marriage and trying to figure out how they work as a couple. Now they spend a lot of time together as a family, but they also have their own lives with no questions asked.”
Martin and Paltrow have been recently seen spending time together in both Dallas and NYC and, in order to keep things consistent for their children, they even have neighboring homes in Malibu, Calif.
“They spend a lot of time coordinating their schedules so that one of them is with the kids at all times,” the insider reveals. “If Gwyneth has business in London, she makes every effort to schedule it when Chris can be with the kids and vice versa. They also do a lot of family stuff together and support each other in their careers.”
Clearly, as fans of the former couple have witnessed, the pair’s children will always come first.
“On weekends if one of them has the kids and the other doesn’t have plans, they will meet up and do something altogether,” the source reveals, adding, “They truly love one another and think the world of each other, they just aren’t a couple. They will spend the holidays together and make sure the kids know they are always going to be a family.”
My opinion: Gwyneth is still wary of Jennifer Lawrence in particular and any woman Chris wants to date in general. While Gwyneth might enjoy a quiet, elite relationship with Brad Falchuck (who is still married, last I heard, much like Gwyneth is still married), she still doesn’t want Chris to have real, public relationships with other women. Especially younger Oscar-winning carb-eaters. But I guess slow-clap for Gwyneth and Chris for figuring out how to have some kind of amazing separation where they spend a lot of time together and prioritize their children.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Good for them, I think. The nuclear model is unrealistic, and I think Gwyneth, She of the Hamptons, has observed marriages like this for a long time. Making it official and not pretending is kind of refreshing?
Good for them if it’s true but this reads like a PR piece from Gwyneth’s camp to me. I think she is totally pretending.
I have exactly the same feeling.Gwyneth PR to piss off another woman
Wow and this woman actually has the audacity to give advice to people about relationships.. she is truly clueless.
It’s good to hear they’re putting the kids first and getting along so well. But I think as soon as either of them gets seriously involved with someone else, things will get a bit trickier. Whether it happens now or down the road, a bit of fallout seems inevitable, with any split.
Exactly. My brother and his ex had a very amicable split, had joint custody of their kids, spent holidays together, etc., even after she remarried. But when HE remarried, the ex changed and was very passive aggressive towards my brother’s new wife, who is an extremely mature and loving person, and handled it well. But the better she handled it, the more it seemed to annoy the ex, and the more aggressive she became. It bothered my brother to see his wife treated that way, and they no longer spend any time together as a group except events for the children when it can’t be avoided. They still co-parent very well, but just as you said, the more people who become seriously involved, the trickier it gets.
I know what they are doing, I was in the same situation. I was with someone a really long time and we had an amicable split and we wanted a friendship. It all worked out, we even had boyfriends/girlfriends after a while. Everything changed with his new gf who does not want me around him at all. So now I ended the friendship because he completely withdrew and I didn’t want to be disappointed anymore by a supposed friend. All is fun and games until Chris seriously falls in love and you are not the no 1 woman in his life anymore, Gwyneth!
It’s not the same situation. GP’s behaviour is passive-aggressive and wants to controll Chris Martin’s life. She doesn’t want him to move on or be happy without her for selfish reasons.
How on earth do you know this?
I’m leaning this way too.
Luna
How do you know that isn’t true?
Goops past behavior and random interviews support this. She has controlled Chris for some time now and maybe he was very ok with that. IMO anyway.
Goops pulling apart from Chris with her married lover and quite suddenly becoming a person with the qualities Chris saw lacking in his wife. Diner cart eating, peasanty, budget shopping qualities that she blogged about almost instantly during the uncoupling. And during the mid to up to pre uncoupling she blogged against these things with a fire in her heart. Sudden change of tune seems calculated.
And the cheek stroking? It’s enough to make you go “hmmm..?”
So, no secret Goop has often been controlling and cold to chris. To ignore this years of well documented behavior is to believe she’s not capable of being manipulative.
Question?? Why don’t they just stay married?? How are they ever going to move on to remarry or have other serious relationships of they live next door and do family things every day?! LOL What happens when Chris is engaged to someone, and they have a baby and he has other kids?? Would he wait until their kids are older before he does it? I just don’t understand. If they want to just bang other people but still have family time nonstop, just be swingers. No shame if it works for you. No judgment here. It’s just going to hurt BAD for the kids when one of the parents actually moves on…..unless they never plan on having real relationships with other people? Like how do you start up a new, relationship with a women when you live next door to your X wife and hang out with her24/7??
Yeah, I don’t get it. I wouldn’t want to be with someone who lives next door to their ex … I think things would get passive aggressive.
I think what they are going for (at least publicly) is that they are a super amicable non-sexual co-parenting relationship now. But I totally agree that certain aspects of their relationship, like living close together and taking shared vacations, makes it seem like more of an open marriage situation. If that’s what it is, it would be cool if they just came out as people in an open marriage, but I think many celebrity-watchers would be horrified.
If that’s what it isn’t, it will be tremendously hard for them to move on romantically for the reasons you mentioned. If you’re going to not have a sexual relationship anymore, I think it’s appropriate that you don’t spend time together in the same way as you did when you were romantic partners. That space should be left open, because otherwise the ex is going to occupy a lot of the same social territory as the next girlfriend/boyfriend and it will get competitive and weird.
This is exactly what GP is counting on, that CM will not be able to maintain any sort of relationship with any other woman. GP cannot tolerate that idea. He doesn’t want HER so he is not allowed to want anybody else either. They can do well for the kids without GP having to insinuate herself into his life in such a way. She is just plain jealous of any other woman that might actually make him happy.
@Luna do you ask this question to all the commenters? We give our personal opinions here, no one really cares about Goop’s life.
That is GP’s minion. She is paid to ‘troll’ the posts looking for anything negative about GP and try to toss in a monkey wrench.
Yes, Paltrow is annoying and elitist, but this does seem to be a pretty civilised breakup, by Hollywood – or indeed, any – standards. And I wouldn’t assume she’s wildly jealous of any woman Chris might have a relationship with. In fact, I doubt the Martin/Lawrence relationship ever really existed, or if it did, it was probably little more than a fling. Both she and Chris seem to be handling the split pretty well. Credit where it’s due and all that.
Yes, it appears quite civil. And we all know how much appearances matter to Gwyneth Paltrow.
So I guess Gwyneth & Jennifer L won’t be called vile names by the public and the media for being homewreckers?
You know because other women despite there being no evidence of wrecking a relationship – got and still getting crucified/harassed/persecuted by the media and some hypocritical people.
I will never understand how people like Julia Roberts, Gwyneth, Courtney Cox, Chelsea Handler, Rita Hanks, Jennifer Aniston, Sheryl Crowe etc are all women who wrecked relationships and yet got away with it.
I understand that most of these women are represented by the Mafia agent Huvane and he really bullies people to make sure they only right good stuff about his clients.
PS: before anyone starts accusing me of being against women – I only mentioned women because it’s about Gwyneth. I know there are lots of male celebs who are homewreckers as well.
Well, Jennifer didn’t come into the relationship until they were separated, so how was she a “home wrecker?”
How dare you make sense and think you’re going to get away with it? Not here, sistah. My eyes > you.
Satan’s eyes > you, sistah.
I think Maya is talking about Jennifer’s current relationship. Wasn’t Justin in a long term relationship with Heidi Bivens at the time he and Jennifer started dating?
I think she’s talking about Jennifer Lawrence, not Jennifer Anniston, in the first paragraph. That’s who I’m talking about, anyway, though I have been known to completely miss the boat and go off on my own tangent…
I def see your point. But I also have never understood the whole concept of homewrecking since it leaves the man (in the examples from above) without responsibility. If a man lets another woman “take” him away and breaking up his home, isn´t he really the one to blame? Shouldn´t a husband take more responsibility for his family than some random who decides that she wants him? Both the (ex)husband and the other woman would be on my shit list. But I would feel huge disappointment towards my husband while considering the other woman to be a ruthless person who got lucky. And, of course, praying for karma…
@Maya:
Goop and Martin were separated for over a year but still trying to make it work sorta. Before that, Goop hinted at cheating issues and Martin said he was still insecure because of Pitt being an ex of his wife. They made their break-up official and after a few months started dating other people. Totally different situation than any of the situations you mentioned. I believe there was some cheating on both sides but none of the salacious break-ups you mentioned.
And yeah, Goop and Martin are still married but their separation is public so basically they would be ‘single’ people entering a relationship.
@theSageM
Theroux and Bivens were not married and while they were together for over a decade,
they were on and off. Theroux even said in an interview that he was single. In stark contrast, Pitt, Aniston and Jolie said that the marriage was a happy one, best friends, children on the mind etc etc before the Big Break-up. Nothing suggested they were on the rocks if you believed what they were all saying (other evidence suggested otherwise such as being apart for long periods for example). They definitely did not identify any issues so that’s why it was a shock when they split. For that one quote where he talked about the relationship as a ‘merger’ you find at least 5 where he talks about how happy he was to be married, how he loves Aniston so much, how beautiful her eyes were etc. He does that with all of his GFs and it wasn’t any different with Aniston.
Artemis: there were public signs of the break up between Jen Aniston and Brad Pitt.
(sorry y’all to bring this up again)
It wasn’t the long separations alone.
From the beginning of their marriage, they gave disconnected answers to questions about their relationship and their life together.
There was the interview where he disclosed that he called her ‘the leaker’ on account of her habit of crying at the drop of a hat over every little thing. It wasn’t said in an affectionate way.
There was the ‘he’s not the love of my life, simply A love’ from Jennifer.
There was the ‘marriage doesn’t last, we’ll see how long this ride will last’ from him.
‘This is a merger’ from one or the other.
‘I don’t believe in soul mates’ from one or the other.
She complained about his uncomfortable furniture in their house.
She refused to live with him in his house.
Every year of their marriage, there was an uncomfortable interview in which one or the other said something that contradicted the happy golden couple narrative.
Taken in isolation, each interview and quote, didn’t necessarily mean anything beyond a titbit of gossip.
However, taken as a whole, not simply in hindsight, the signs were there.
What blinded everyone was the ‘golden couple’ narrative playing out in the media.
And of course Jen Aniston played a blinder post-divorce such that it looked like she was shocked the marriage ended.
Personally, the interview where he called her ‘the leaker’ and she retaliated with ‘he isn’t the love of my life’ is when I started to pay attention. After reading that interview, I knew they were done.
@LAK
As I said, both gave many interviews throughout their marriage and for every bad quote you mention there are more good ones. Pitt and Aniston were asked constantly about their relationship and if those bad quotes were so ubiquitous, people wouldn’t have believed their ‘Golden Couple’ status.
Where does ‘The Leaker’ come from because all I found was a report, not an interview, from Cindy Adams from the New York Post. Doesn’t sound legit to me.
She actually said he was a ‘big love’. Jolie said when they already had 3 kids that she didn’t trust anybody, maybe Brad but then no, not even him. And they didn’t say ‘I love you’ in their first year together. That didn’t send off the alarm for fans.
Again, there are just as many happy quotes. Friends and even Jolie has said they had a good marriage, were best friends.
While I fully believe that Jolie and Pitt love each other immensely and are a great pair, Pitt has gushed much more about his exes than he ever did with Jolie. Maybe it’s because of the Triangle but it is noticeable. He can praise her for her mothering skills but lovey dovey quotes are a thing in the past. I know fans like to bring up the few quotes he actually did give but they are nothing compared to Goop and Aniston love quotes. Jolie and PItt also say they are best friends and good parents and Jolie is the only one who gushes all the time about him.
At the end of the day, Pitt and Aniston did everything to squash the cheating rumours and pretended their marriage was fine by posing at premieres and issuing statements. That says they are people who are good at faking it. So do all their comments have any validity at all?
Wha?!?! Quotes in which Jolie said she didn’t trust Brad are non-existent. So don’t. Just don’t. Their first year together was relatively quiet, I would assume for a number of reasons. First, Brad was building a relationship with Jolie, becoming a dad to Madd and newly adopted Zee, talking about bio kids I’d assume and establishing his family with Angie. So their focus was on building a life together, not on the public’s interest.
Secondly, they didn’t want to fan the flames. Brad’s ex was too busy constructing Her “poor me/pity party” narrative she would use over the next decade. Running to Oprah, Vanity Fair, GQ, Elle, Vogue and any other magazine who would tell her side of the story. So Brad and Angie wisely laid low and kept quiet, because any type of response to that would just fan the flames and make matters worse. Their first interview about their relationship was People, Dec 2006. Then they did a joint interview about their new life together for Vogue, Jan 2007. Nearly two years after Brad’ split.
With regard to your comment that Brad “never gushed about Angie the way he did Jolie,” well every time he said something favorable to Angie, the tabloid media would twist it and call it a slam on his ex. It wasn’t, but Brad couldn’t win. He was damned if he did and damned if he didn’t. He’s gotten more comfortable now, but even as late as 2011 when he was promoting Moneyball, he took heat from his Parade interview when he was merely talking about HIS past. The guy can’t even talk about himself without someone saying it’s a slam on his ex….Jesus.
And sure there are nice quotes from both of them when Brad was with his ex, but that doesn’t tell the whole story in my opinion. And as LAK has accurately pointed out, there were red flags all over this relationship.
And no, I don’t believe Brad’s ex did everything to quell cheating rumors. There are way too many snarky, back-handed, passive-aggressive quotes from her print interviews. “Angelina is uncool” and “Consider the source (when told Angie said there was no cheating)” come to mind.
TC
Actually Angie was asked in an interview for (Vogue 2006?) I think if she trusts anyone 100% and she said no, not even Brad, James or her mom ( she was still alive at the time). She said she may trust them by telling them something personal and they could react by doing something about it thinking its for her best interests which she may not like. To paraphrase, she said she doesn’t trust ANYONE 100% with HER SECRETS. Nothing to do with Brad cheating or him as a person.
However things may have changed now since this was 8 years ago and they were just a new couple.
I agree however with everything you wrote.
p.s sorry for the bad grammar. Not an English speaker.
The interview was Vogue 2007. Link isn’t working. Cover had Jolie in off shoulder red dress.
And the quote is taken somewhat out of context here.
To add to lucky I think this not trusting 100% is a control issue on her part, but not because the other did something to earn that.
So this doesn’t apply here.
Lucky
Join the club. But in my experience here even the native english speakers aren’t typing perfect grammar 😉
lucky — your English is very good. I understood everything you said. Thank you for your post. As FLORC stated, Jolie’s Vogue interview was January 2007. I was able to find a scan: http://joliepittpress.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/vogue-january-2007/
FLORC — Thank you for clarifying the “trust issue” statement as I agree it was taken out of context in Artemis’ post and wasn’t in reference to Brad, but Jolie’s own personal situation (before Brad). I’m guessing her trust issues stemmed from her own father’s betrayal (Jon Voight), which I can completely understand.
It’s not out of context:
Vogue 2007
http://joliepittpress.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/vogue-january-2007/
Whom do you trust?
“I don’t trust anyone.”
Really?
“Yeah,” she says. “I don’t think it’s a good thing. This is going to make you think that maybe I should get some therapy, but trust is such a bizarre word. I’d like to say that I trust my mother, but I also don’t know if she might do something that she thinks is in my best interest. I trust that Brad will never do anything. . . .” She trails off. “I don’t know. I don’t trust anybody completely.”
They had 3 kids at that point as their first year together was basically getting pregnant and adopting a child. If you can’t trust people (she didn’t really clarify in what way/area) then why jump into the unknown with a man who was mainly a colleague before becoming a partner? She already said they took a risk with the way they handled their relationship so yeah, that would be a huge red flag. They both have/had a tendency to be OTT and totally into their significant other.
If people take issue with Pitt and Aniston’s remarks throughout their marriage (which are often taken out of context too or no real source at all besides ‘reports’ such as The Leaker One) then quotes like these should have made JP fans worried too at that time. But it didn’t. And they didn’t even have children together.
I’ve read Pitt’s old (pre-2003) interviews and I stand by my point that he gushed all the time about her. Slip-ups like the ‘merger’ are not common and he used to praise Aniston all the time and talk about wanting children with her. Same for her, she also said she wanted children and was happy to be married to him. I agree that the bad quotes did happen and they would be accurate I believe but it’s cherry-picking what you want to believe tbh. Nobody could have known they would actually divorce going by interviews only.
@TC
Nah sorry, Pitt is an adult, the public shouldn’t have that much power over him when it comes to talking about Jolie. He left his ex for Jolie, he didn’t have problems doing that so why is talking about his love for Jolie so difficult? It’s not. Jolie does it all the time (gush) and she always gest the brunt of the drama, let’s be real here.
I’m talking about Pitt and Aniston trying to stop the cheating rumours. Did they or didn’t they not talk to the press about him NOT being in love with Jolie and attending premieres with his then-wife? Jolie was asked and she also said he was with his best friend. I don’t care how ‘fake’ that seemed to the JP fans, it’s a fact that wanted to be seen as a united front back then. Right before they separated they were together yet according to the JP fans he couldn’t wait to get away from her. Don’t think so. Or those months inbetween the separation and the divorce announcement where he organised her birthday party?
Come on! Stop vilifying the third person. You don’t steal someone’s boyfriend/husband/wife/girlfriend unless he/she wants to be “stolen”.
In any case, you forgot to include Dame Jolie in the list of Hollywood’s homewreckers.
I think a grown up shouldn’t judge other grown ups when it comes to cheating or having an affair outside a marriage. Esp not when it’s a celeb where everything is gossip and basically speculation.
Yes, but people LOVE to, don’t they?
I think the intensity of response to the Jolie/Pitt/Aniston “image” is that the dynamic of “the other woman” is a personal story for a LOT of people. There are people who won’t let that go.
If they can both act like adults and co parent, then good for them. The worst thing a child can see is their parents arguing.
Agreed. Moreover, the worst thing a child can see is their parents arguing constantly with no evidence of dealing with the source of the conflict. Takes some effort, but if Ro sees us in a yelling match, we make sure to also let her see us resolve it.
In my opinion,the worst for the kids is that they think their parents broke because of them and again worse when it’s true
Having arguments is not necessarily not acting like an adult. I think the worst thing kids can witness their parents do is harm one another, physically, emotionally and verbally. Arguments are completely normal and healthy.
My grandparents never, ever argued because my grandmother grew up in a very abusive household, so she went to the extreme to keep her own household “peaceful.” If she disagreed with anything my grandfather said, she just kept everything bottled up so as not to rock the boat. This didn’t do her or anyone else any good. As a result, my mother and her siblings have always fought every single issue laid before them no matter the size or significance. They all made the determination early on that they would NEVER be like their parents and would never give in or compromise or even debate anything, which is just the other bad extreme.
Someone should forward this article to Halle Berry
Too true!
So…nothing really changed. Before the “conscious uncoupling” debacle, they were doing the same thing.
While it’s nice that they are making the kids a priority and the appearance of a happy family. I’m not onboard with their marital ambivilance. What does GP tell the kids when she goes out with a married man? GP and CM could legally separate and still be good parents to their children. All the kids see now is a revolving door or “married” parents together and their parents dating other people….
This really isn’t a story. Two separated parents have found a way to get along and co-parent their children. Good for them.
I don’t think it’s an open marriage. It’s a couple split up going their own way but still keeping the friendship bond and making every effort to be a family for the children and do things as a family unit at times to show the kids just because they’ve split up doesn’t mean they still aren’t a family. I think they aren’t sexual, because I don’t think Jennifer would be with him if he was. And she’s still been seen going to his house after the breakup rumors.
Gawd I hope JLaw is taking the first lifeboat off this sinking ship.
Well it is nice to see, that Gwyneth is still got that PR person doing her bidding.
Selling that “Conscious Uncoupling” story that she wants out there.
And this is the Conscious Uncoupling story that Gwyneth will push, till it no longer is beneficial to her. When she can land a filthy rich man, who is willing to marry her and let her spend his cash.
There will be a new angle to this story. Somehow Chris Martin is going to be tossed under the bus. If he had any sense…. Martin would get this divorce finalized. For his own reputation.
You can be friendly and parent your children together. Legally divorced.
Gwyneth has always struck me as a sneaky B*tch. She has a plan. And all these little PR stories thrown out once a week or so… just lets me know there is a bigger game going on. That will only end positive for her.
*slow clap*
With you all the way on this. PR magic here. I doubt Chris is leaking anything.
He was painted very poorly with his fashion jumpoff while she maintained her affair with a married man without backlash.
I think she tried to toss him under that bus, but it didn’t work. She’s still taking that high road in the press/pr image, but nothing about this seems genuine. Goop always has motive.
I have no idea why people keep trying to drag Jennifer’s name into this mess (probably for clicks) because we haven’t seen anything about them since Halloween with that “convenient” shot of her at Chris’ house. That and she seemed to shoot down any rumors of her and Chris on Letterman. None of the Kentucky wedding planning/Chris going to her London movie premieres/Jen being pregnant/Jen moving in with him were true and she seemed to confirm that herself.
As for Goop and Chris they are together to me. He travels to events for her and supports her charity work by playing songs for them. He moved across the street from her. That’s more than a amicable split for the kids to me. It seems like they are still pretty much married or about to get back together but waiting for the best PR time. It’s why I never believed he Chris/Jen rumors because he seemed more loved up with Goop even with those rumors of new relationships. And where has Brad been? Invisible? Because we haven’t seen him at all so are they even a thing? I’m telling you Goop and Chris are trolling the media
Sounds to me like they’ve always had an open marriage, and just figured out a way to make it public knowledge before big cheating stories came out. Now they’re “separated” but I get the impression it’s no different than before. If the kids are happy and feel secure, that’s good, but I’m in agreement that sooner or later one is going to meet someone and really fall for them, and all this happy split stuff will get tricky.
I kind of think this is true. It makes sense if you think about the Vanity Fair piece that was supposed to ruin GP’s reputation or something – if VF was going to “out” her and Brad F. as lovers, then that would have been bad for her rep. But if GP got to announce her and Chris Martin having an amicable split, and she still got to see Brad F. on the side, and Chris M. got to see whoever he wants to on the side (not sure that JLaw was more than — at the most — a one night stand or a few hookups), then the damage to her rep is less. Here she is getting kudos (or trying to anyway, with this planted press release) for maintaining a healthy, positive relationship with Chris M., and they live near each other and see each other as often as possible, and they fully co-parent their kids. But that sounds like marriage to me!! An open marriage is exactly what that is. (Perhaps even an open marriage where the couple never has sex with one another, only with others, but still — I’m sure that’s what “open marriage” means to plenty of people who are in them!)
My thoughts exactly. Her new relationship was going to leak. She had to get ahead of that. My weird theory is that this may have been what the rumored Vanity Fair “takedown” was about. My guess is she appealed to G.C. at Vanity Fair to not proceed in the way they wanted to for the sake of her children. She probably said, yes, her life wasn’t what it seemed to be, but let her handle the public news in her own way. My guess is he honored that.
This. They didnt want their marriage to implode publicly like Thicke’s did. PR managed all the way.
This woman has always had the WORST complexion…
Did you guys see that she Instagrammed a picture of J Lo saying that she had the “perfect tush” to promote Tracy Anderson? I thought that was very interesting since I thought they hated each other since that J Lo interview on Movieline where she dissed Gwyneth.
I think they probably get along fine.
And I think it’s REALLY, REALLY important to Gwyneth that they be SEEN to get along fine. Like, it’s not enough that this state of affairs simply be true; EVERYONE MUST KNOW. THE WORLD MUST COMPREHEND HOW PERFECT AND SERENE GWYNETH’S BREAKUP IS.
Because she really can’t handle the idea that people might judge her to be fallible in the wake of her marriage failing.
Indeed. Goop isn’t fooling anyone. Her entire life seems scripted. Kinda pathetic.
Yes. I think the importance of appearances to Gwyneth is her biggest blind spot. And I don’t think it’s pathetic, I think it’s in keeping with what she was raised and taught to value and protect. The thing is, people can feel the importance she places on appearances and it often feels forced and at the expense of grounded honesty. It looks like a lack of humility and it backfires on her.
Sorry but this arrangement will only hold Chris back from finding another strong relationship. When Gwyneth and her man and chris and his girl can all hang out together then I will be impressed.
I’m so glad Jennifer is done with this idiot of a man. Goop found a perfect dolt of a man to control. She’s smart enough to have spayed him so that any other woman who is confident and has self esteem won’t put up with him and his weird connection to his supposedly ex. I get not wanting to upset their kids with a broken home but if they aren’t under the same roof are their kids that stupid that they can’t seek the charade and b.s. of it all? Kids are way more smarter and they know it’s a farce.
I agree. This is for Gwyneth, not the kids. We’re talking about people who SAY they put their kids first, but we all know they pretend and more to themselves than they do for the public. If you’re surrounded by psychophants, justifications are easily supported and encouraged. If their kids are at all observant and insightful which I’ll bet they are, they have already figured out their parents.
I’ve seen my share of sycophancy at play, as we all have. It does distort perspective.
I’m dubious that what’s described by E! is actually what they are doing — but, if they are, good for them. Seems very sensible (which is why I’m dubious — the first year or two after separating tends to be a pretty emotional time).