We all know that Jessica Simpson loves to over-share. The girl’s middle name is probably “Too Much Information” but her over-sharing is, for the most part, very harmless, like a cute, playful little kitten with no short-term memory. She’s gushed about her boyfriend Tony Romo pretty much as soon as the relationship started, and she’s given us nearly daily updates on the state of the relationship.
The one thing that Jessica hasn’t been able to over-share is an engagement announcement with Tony. They’ve been together for more than a year, and they’re pretty much living together in Los Angeles and Dallas. Jessica and her family (mainly her pervert father) have been dropping crazy hints that Jessica would totally like to settle down with Tony and have a family. But the whole thing’s a no-go, according to OK! Magazine. They have a “source” who claims that Tony is not “the marrying kind”:
Throughout her current concert tour, Jessica Simpson has been gushing to audiences about how much she loves her man, Tony Romo.
But in private, the country crooner is feeling crushed that her football-star beau didn’t give her the one thing she really wanted this Valentine’s Day: a diamond ring!
“Jessica was really hoping that she was going to get an engagement ring,” says a source close to Simpson. “She wanted one for Christmas, then she thought maybe New Year’s Eve. Her last hope was that Tony would propose on Valentine’s Day–but he didn’t.”
But she shouldn’t have been surprised. As OK! previously reported, Tony seemed distracted during a Feb. 13 dinner with Jess at NYC hotspot Waverly Inn, where he spent 15 minutes texting on his iPhone. “Jessica was not happy,” an eyewitness tells OK!, adding that the Dukes of Hazzard star tried desperately to get Tony to focus on her. “He just wasn’t picking up on the fact that she was starting to lose her patience.”
The couple, both 28, spent Valentine’s Day together, with the Dallas Cowboys quarterback attending Jess’s show in Rochester, NY. But days later while dining with her sister, Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, the singer sang a different tune.
“You know, I really thought he was going to make it happen this time. I thought he was ready to propose,” Jess told Ashlee, according to a friend. “I know Tony loves me, but I don’t know if he’ll ever propose.”
“Ashlee has always been the more realistic, more practical of the two sisters,” the insider tells OK!. “And Ashlee knows how much her sister wants to be married and have a baby of her own. But as wonderful as Tony is, he is not the marrying kind–probably not for years.”
From OK! Magazine
I buy parts of this story. I’ve long maintained that Tony must really love Jessica, because if didn’t, he would have dumped her a long time ago. But I also buy that he’s probably not the greatest, most attentive boyfriend, and that he might make Jessica wait a lot longer for a ring. If Jessica wants to hang around for a while and wait it out, he might actually come through, you never know. She seems to really love him, so I suspect she will stick it out until Tony either proposes or breaks up with her. If all else fails, she could try to get pregnant. It might be the fastest way to get Tony down the aisle. Just kidding! (Or maybe I’m not.)
Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo are shown out on 2/13/09. Credit: VILA/ANDERSON/bauergriffinonline.com
If he’s not moving fast enough for her than she should probably move on which I doubt she will. I was thinking the same thing about getting pregnant but knowing Jess, I doubt she would do it in fear she would totally lose him.
Hey, Jess – he’s a guy. He is only 28, and guys mature at a slower pace than girls do. He is probably not even thinking of anything other than living in the moment – he’s young, a professional football player, dating a starlet, and generally living the “high life”. Why change anything? I wouldn’t and I’m a female.
She already had a great husband that she screwed over. I still cringe at how she treated Nick those last few episodes of their show. So if she has to wait a few years to get the next idiot oh well!
You would think she would be the one the one wanting to take her time since she is divorced. Nick was way too good for her.
Our mothers all said the same thing about getting the milk for free. There is the difference between a clever girl like Carey Underwood and a not so clever girl like Jessica. In a unrelated side note,,both Jessica and Brittney were in my town last night. I think they trashed the intelligence curve by quite a bit, if even for one night.
It’s only been a year… c’mon Jessica… you’re talking about a committment that most people make for a lifetime – they don’t throw it away when their daddy tells them to. I’d be a little gun shy too if I were dating a girl/guy who claimed to love me almost immediately and who had his/her daddy manipulating my every move.
She shouldn’t have gotten divorced! Bonehead move of the century!
You would think that she would learn from “Newlyweds” about putting her relationship out there.
But to have it be a year of dating and to be already expecting a ring (and complaining about it in public) is only going to make him less likely to want to propose.
loved newlyweds. could not believe she left nick. big big mistake.
+ it doesn’t seem like nick’s in any hurry to propose to vanessa either.
He is waiting for an intelligent woman to come along. She is just a space holder. Give me a break. If he wanted to, he would. PERIOD.
seems what papa joe didn’t realize is the reason Jessica blew-up over night, the reasons we loved NEWLYWEDS had much more to do with Nick and how Nick treated Jess than actually with Jessica herself or her music.
I think the poor girl has very low self esteem. Which is a shame. You don’t need a man (or a woman) to complete you. She’s be much better recieved if she stood on her own two feet and her own merit. Such as it is.
@ Lina: So true, what guy wouldn’t love being pressured by the national media into proposing
Yeah slow down honey. It’s only been a year. Some people wait longer than that. It DOES happen. Impatient much?
I kinda maintain the whole notion that if he wanted to, he would have. Having had male friends my entire lives, they know pretty much within the first couple of months that a girl has “wife” potential.
I mean, I dated a guy for two years and never once thought I’d marry him, until the end where it was like “eh, I mean, we’ve been together for long enough…I guess..”
He doesn’t really look like the marrying kind, not at this stage of his life anyway. Things have changed and Jessica needs to bring herself into the 21st century, not think it’s like the old days where people were married by 20 with a baby a year later. A lot of guys in their early 30’s now say they don’t want the whole life-long commitment of a family and maybe never will. It’s their deal after all.
She’s simply not who he wants to marry. Period, end of story. It’s the classic problem: to her, dating and being in a relationship with someone is a means to an end–a wedding. To him, it’s not necessarily something that leads to a wedding.
I think his attitude (if that is his attitude, we’re all just really guessing here) is more realistic.
I suspect he’s just enjoying the sex and having a steady companion right now. I predict he will end it in the next six months or so. She needs to just chill out, enjoy life, enjoy being young, take it easy.
I agree with a lot of you guys. IT’S ONLY BEEN A YEAR! I’m getting married this coming October and have already been engaged for a year and have been dating my man for nearly FOUR!!! Plus he and I have been best friends for SEVEN. I realize hollywood life is a bit more fast paced than hometown reality but come on! Doesn’t anyone get to know each other anymore before they take the plunge?!? No wonder there are so many divorces! How can you possibly know someone if you haven’t even had the time to experience how they react in various situations?
My fiance and I have been through living as roommates while we were in the Navy (when we were just friends), writing letters and emails to each other as our only source of communication when he was out at sea (still just friends), dating long distance for over a year with 600 miles between us and me doing all the traveling, plus he dropped everything and moved to be with me after the death of my father and held me up for nearly a year while I battled severe depression and anxiety, and is waiting to marry me until after I graduate college. I truly feel we have tested one another greatly and we both passed with flying colors. Doesn’t anyone do that anymore? How can you know it’s right until you’ve both proven your love is strong by sticking it out even through tough times. It’s easy to stay with each other when everything is golden.
Of course it is, and sometimes those trials don’t happen until after you’re married.
Do you want them to experience near-death experiences first?
Sometimes, it may just not be that way. I mean, she’s being kinda nutso about it. You’re right, it’s only been a year, but hey, she’s been claiming marriage to him when they were like 5 months in. Not even.
Ridiculous…they’ve only been together a year…why treat these celebrity couples any different…why the media pressure? Many happy couples DO NOT get engaged their very first year. My parents dated 4 years, and just celebrated their 50th~ happily. So stick it.
I really hope she is not as desperate to get married as the media makes it out to be. Her first marriage didn’t pan out, you would think she would want to take longer to feel relationships out first, get to know herself better.
I know her divorce was a long time ago, but it’s a life changing event for most.
People say it’s only been a year, but Jessica Simpson is from the south where people get married real quick and real young. She already did it once; I believe she was 22 when she married Nick Lachey (Granted he was much older than her and if her virginity vow is to be believed, he probably couldn’t wait much longer).
Also considering that it was once very important to her to be married before sleeping with someone, maybe she wants Tony to make an honest woman out of her, since they apparently aren’t abstaining. Maybe.
I also take this article with a grain of salt. This is the same magazine Jessica threatened to sue for falsely reporting that Tony Romo had dumped her and that she wasn’t close with her sister anymore. Their “sources” on JS don’t appear to be too accurate.
Men are simply learning that there is no real incentive to marriage anymore.
For all the sentimental aspects of it there are many more practical reasons why marriage is a terrible, terrible idea for men.
You’re going to see many more men in the future simply refuse to marry, and it has nothing to do with maturity level.
@loldongs…
I TOTALLY AGREE! THESE DAYS, WHAT’S THE POINT?
Tony has Jessica right where he wants and he’s enjoying everything she has to offer so why buy the cow now, it’s too late. That’s one thing that bugs me about women today, you’re all TOO EASY these days.
Why work for it if a woman is willing to give it away? He can use her however he wants and then when he’s finished, move on to someone else. Besides, she strikes me as being too needy and clingy, not to mention she is a dimly lit lightbulb. I’ll give her the looks, but where’s the substance. Another mistake women of today make, looks aren’t everything.
Hey lily, many happy couples DO get engaged and married within a year. My husband and I met, dated long distance, got engaged and married well within the first year of meeting. We will celebrate our second anniversary in April ( I know its not a lot of time married). Our families said that we wouldnt make it past a year. We have and we are very happy.
We are a military family too and we have endured 18 hour days, weeks long training and mostly a seven month deployment. We did that as husband and wife not “just friends”. He are very happy and we did not date for years upon years.So stick it
*we are very happy.
It’s obviously different for everybody. My husband and I got married after dating (and living together) for a year, and six years and two kids later, we’re still going strong.
well he is smart. After all she ended her marriage to Nick because daddy said to. Tony must be smarter then nick
I think he must like her as he is sticking around despite the fact that being with her has pretty much ruined his image turning him from golden boy to laughungstick and even took her back after a brief split but I’ve never got the sense he’s in love with her, just seeing her as mostly a friend with benefits type. I can only imagine if she had a facebook profile, she’d do a status update every 15 minutes about being madly in love with him. I mean being with him is the only publicity she gets aside from the weight thing, which I think she staged by wearing those clothes. If he was quarterbacking the Jacksonville Jaguars, Minnesota Vikings or other lower profile teams, she probably never would have fallen for him as it wouldn’t have gotten her as much publicity.
She did the following to Nick:
1. Treated him like dirt while they were married.
2. Refused to grow up.
3. Refused to sign a prenup because he was more sucessful and when she became more successful tried to cheat him of his rightful share in the settlement.
4. Floated abuse rumors against him to test public opinion and turn it against him.
The last two were unforgiveable and I’m sure a lot of men in the industry paid serious attention to what happened during that time.
All of them know what married life will be like, raising an immature idiot who will try to rip them off and damage their reputations if they want to get divorced.
This selfish idiot did a lot of low things to Nick that would have had anyone else sued for slander. She still acts like a high schooler and treated marriage like it was a game.
“This selfish idiot did a lot of low things to Nick that would have had anyone else sued for slander. She still acts like a high schooler and treated marriage like it was a game.”
“Jessica was really hoping that she was going to get an engagement ring, says a source close to Simpson. She wanted one for Christmas”
Case in point!
He needs to focus strictly on football. Do not let her become a distraction to your (my) team Tony! Go Cowboys!
I don’t understand why people so young are so eager to get married so fast. They do realize that if they are truly planning on staying together, the REST of your life is a LONG time!
Maybe if she didn’t have “desperate” branded across her being, she’d have better luck. Jeesus, desperation and clingyness are not turn on’s. And as for making ‘an honest woman out of her’. Please, this dumba*s cheated on her husband.
Why should he buy the cow when he’s getting the milk for free?
You’re right! The incentive for men in the past was that women demanded a man be respectful, financially solvent, and a good partner for them before they would allow him sex or any of the benefits of female live-in companionship.
There is no social stigma to living together, procreating, or just plain fornicating out of wedlock anymore.
In addition, today’s culture has told men that they are totally unnecessary. We don’t “need” them to support us. We don’t “need” them to father children. We don’t “need” their masculine view, their advice, their…well, anything.
So again…why would ANY man buy the cow when he can get any dairy product in the world he wants for free?
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Cakes, I am happily married, as well, and we are also a military family. Whereas I don’t take a hardline stance against “shacking up” and short engagements and things of that nature, the fact that these things are the rule rather than the exception, now, have resulted in the culture of non-commitment that we see today.
Marriage means nothing to people without both the religious and secular moral OBLIGATIONS it has, through the centuries, stood for on both sides.
For decades, we’ve been telling men we don’t need them.
Now, it seems, they’re discovering they don’t need us, either.
I never understood the point of marriage being the “be all, end all”.
If you have a happy relationship, what’s the rush? Why not enjoy the time you have together now? And if you don’t have a happy relationship, is a piece of paper and a two week vacation really going to change the fundamental dynamic?
It’s sad, really.
But she really should stick around a little longer to further annoy/distract Romo in ’09! Sick ’em, Jess! Hang on to his jersey and whine like you’ve never whined before!
Hey aspen
Its nice to meet another military wife. You are 100% right in your post.
What branch are you a part of?
he’s not the “marrying type” is code for douchebag. that is SUCH a cop out!
that being said, my parents were married within 3 months of meeting each other (they hated each other for about 6 mos before that). october will be their 26th wedding anniversary. sometimes it just works.
“he’s not the “marrying type” is code for douchebag. that is SUCH a cop out!”
It’s code for: He knows Jessica’s track record. Furthermore, he’s a man with money and doesn’t want it subject to the greedy mitts of some woman.
There is NO good reason for Tony Romo to marry that woman.
Maybe he’s just not that into her…
I think the fact they are dating is sad. They live in two different States. If they did take the plung where would there one home be? I no longer will cheer for the Cowboys because he has cost us two play offs and I know it is because of her. I do not care what others think. Get your head in the game and out of the clouds Romo.