When Amanda Seyfried and Justin Long got together in Summer 2013, there were wonderful hints of an offbeat romance. She’s stunning, and he’s an adorable goofball, and they really seemed to dig each other. I especially liked how she broke her pattern of dating an army of douche for Justin. You never hear one bad word about Justin Long, and he has no shady Lohan secrets in his closet like some of the other dudes Amanda dated. Even Finn the dog loved Justin! Justin and Finn got papped together like dog and dad, so I figured Justin would put eventually a ring on it. Earlier this year, Amanda started hinting to magazines that she wanted to start a family soon, which seemed like a make-or-break move. I genuinely never expected to hear this breakup news:
Amanda Seyfried and Justin Long are back to walking red carpets solo.
After more than two years of dating, the Ted 2 beauty and New Girl actor have split. “It happened a few weeks ago,” a source close to the couple reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly. “He’s really heartbroken.”
Seyfried fell for Long on Instagram in the summer of 2013. “I thought something he said was really funny,” she revealed to Vogue in May. “It was a beautiful picture of a snail, and the caption said, “F***ing MOOOOOOOOVE.” It made me laugh out loud, so I texted him.”
While Long, 37, declared on the Today show in 2014 that the couple was “in it for the long haul,” another source says their relationship has been quietly unraveling. “They had different schedules and different lives,” explains the source. “They just grew apart.”
As Seyfried also admitted to the fashion mag, “Making movies is two solid months of 12-, 14-hour days. I mean, it can ruin your relationship.”
[From Us Weekly]
So they’re going with the official “competing schedules” excuse, which I’m sure is true to a degree as with many actors in entertainment. This is such a bummer of a story, and they dated so quietly that I figured they’d have some low-key wedding we’d hear about after the fact. Now they’re over, and hopefully both will not rebound with some inferior types. Amanda generally has awful taste in men, you know? And I’m sure this breakup is hard on lovely Finn. *sigh*
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So sad. They seemed perfect together!
Aw, I thought they were a cute googly-eyed couple. I expected them to last.
Justin Long is 37?!!! Honestly thought he was 25ish.
shocked me too.
I think she’s so pretty. I wonder if it was a rainy day and she felt trouble in her boobs….couldn’t resist, she was my fave in Mean Girls..lol
I think she is GORGEOUS. It’s a shame, they seemed like a genuinely nice, low key couple.
She has the most incredible head of hair. Sigh.
I don’t usually have any f*cks to give about Hwood couples but I have to admit that I really liked these two together 🙁
She’s so beautiful in that first photo.
I’m surprised because she was just talking about babies on the brain in her last interview not too long ago. She seemed happy in her relationship. I liked them together.
I really liked him in that movie “He’s Just Not Into You,” or whatever the title was. He and Drew were cute together.
I’m not surprised. Whenever a lady announces marriage/babies on the brain, it means either the engagement is imminent or the breakup is. Often it’s the latter, because she’s essentially voicing the status quo is not satisfactory.
relationships are tough 🙁 i hope the next guy is not as awful as her other exes
Who are her sketchy exes?
That gross Ryan Phillippe or however you spell his name. There is a famous painting depicting vanity – a man obsessed with his reflection in the water, ignoring his lover in the background. I always think of Ryan as that man obsessed with his reflection. Such a conceited, self-centered douche. So glad Amanda isn’t with him anymore. Actually, he and Reese seem made for eachother but I don’t think both their egos could fit in the same room….or house.
The guy from Mama Mia too
I think he’s adorable. She seems to have the worst taste in men, he was an expection.
Finn is such a nice dog, what breed is that?
He looks like some type of sheppard border collie mix.
I think an Aussie Shepherd maybe?
Thank you! I am a kitty person normally but some dogs make me want a dog.
Yep, he’s an Aussie mix of some kind, not sure where she adopted him from, but I used to see them all the time at that petstore pictured from the parking lot, also other places in my area…
Nothing to say about this couple, except that it’s too bad for Finn that they couldn’t make it work!
Finn will get her through this
Yes!…but I am sure he will miss him too!!
He is such a lovely and loving doggy!
Maybe she broke things off when he wouldn’t marry her? If she was ready to settle down, then why pull the plug? Perhaps he’s bummed because he was happy with the status quo, and now it’s changed. I always got the sense he was a commitment-phobe with Drew Barrymore.
I agree with this..Didn’t he date Drew off/on for something like 7 years?? And then her immediate bf after JL put a ring on it and babies came. And now Amanda has been wanting to settle down and they break up? Hmm…that just sucks. I know some men may never want to settle down, but that’s just rough. I really want to like him bc he is so adorable ..dang. Really liked them together a lot.
This was also my thought, given that she’s been so open about wanting kids and marriage lately. If they had vastly different timelines on when they wanted those things it might actually be another kind of “competing schedules”.
Yeah, I don’t understand why everyone is saying they made the perfect couple. It isn’t shocking to hear this. After her interview stating she wanted to start a family, I thought that Long might end up breaking things off soon. I believe he could very well still be with Drew Barrymore if she had not wanted marriage and a family. He always came off as a somewhat of a commitment phobe. This guy is already in his late 30s and has been in long-term relationships with two gorgeous women he seems to get along with. If he had wanted to put a ring on either of them he would have already. He might be someone who doesn’t want kids, and even though he isn’t a player, he might just want to be in a steady long-term relationship instead of marriage. If that is the case, he should be upfront about that with the women he wants to date.
I just wish mightily that she and Sparkles would get together and have thought so for years.
The conflicting schedules line is tired, but then again look at Amanda: she’s been in-demand for years, going from project to project to project. She’s gotta ride this hot streak as long as she can, and it must be hard on a significant other to be constantly in competition with that kind of schedule, especially if he has work commitments of his own.
Too bad, they were cute 🙁
Didn’t he date Drew for a while? And she dumped him… or was it he who broke it off?
I don’t care too much one way or the other about either of them, but that dog is a STAAAHHH… so photogenic. Want to pet him!
I just had to end a two year relationship with a man who wouldn’t/couldn’t commit to me. Sucks no matter who you are.
I was on again/off again for 7 years with a guy I thought I was going to marry. next thing I know, once he finally gets a job (which was holding me back to finally being with him this time) he gets a 22 year old girlfriend who just graduated college,lives at home, and looks like a nerdy teenager(he is almost 31). Needless to say, I feel stupid for ever thinking I could marry someone who clearly is not ready for such a commitment. I am 34 and cannot believe I wasted so many good years..
Hugs Andrea. I keep hearing stories like this. The guy who after years together “migrates” as soon as his circumstances improve. I’m sorry it feels like a wasted seven years but I’m glad that loser showed his true colors before you married him, no doubt he would have cheated on you with some nerdy teen if you had.
The sad/funny thing is he probably still believes that he is the best boyfriend I ever had. LOL His lack of dating experience should have made me run from the get go (he only dated a girl online a month prior to me). Sweet, nerdy boys with lack of life/dating experience should make all women run the other way. I feel bad for the naive 22 year old he is with now, she probably thinks she has struck gold and has no idea what she is in for. The guy was high drama too: lots of crying, I’m not good enough for you etc. I am emotionally spent from it honestly.
I also heard through the grapevine his new girlfriend jokingly calls him old man. LOL It is too funny for words!
Nerds who become successful are actually worse then guys who always had women. There’s so much catching up to do when they are finally in a position to get women.. ( i see you Chris Martin).
Hugs to you Andrea!
Isn’t it awful? They string you along with half-truths. “No baby I love you, why do we need labels/jewelry/a piece of paper” and it always feels like they have on foot out the door.
Brave woman, I hope you feel better soon!
Thank you everyone! *hugs* @skyblue also. We will rally back from this and find better partners that will make these jerks look like little boys. 🙂
Good on you Skyblue! At some point in your life when you are ready for marriage and a family you need to guy to either commit or walk away. When I met my hubby I was divorced and going through grad school and I told him from the get go that I was not interested inc asual anything, I was looking for a relationship that would mature fast and end in marriage and kids. I was just turning 31 when we met and I didn’t waste my time. He proposed nine months later. And this is a guy who had come into grad school thinking he would play the field. His parents were stunned (in the happy way) that their oldest was getting married, they had been afraid that he would play the field forever.
I think a lot of women shy from having the marriage talk because “it scares men away”. You know what – good. You want to scare away the ones who are not interested in a commitment. And if they say you don’t need a paper for a loving, solid relationship, my response to that is that if the paper is so unimportant, then why exactly can’t we get it.
Works wonders.
I feel bad for Finn. He won’t understand where Justin went.
He is my favourite Celeb Pooch!
I think he will miss him!!
I really like her. She’s gorgeous and sophisticated in some ways but also doesn’t seem to take herself too seriously. I think she and Ryan Phillipe looked good together like a real life beautiful Ken and Barbie couple, but he just always seems like a real douche. Who should she date next??? It needs to be someone a little older but not too old… I say NOT Jake G (seems difficult) or Jon Hamm (too old for her)…thoughts?
That’s a shame, they were cute together, and stayed low-key.
She is really stunning.
That bums me out. I knew him sightly (many, many years ago) and he was kind and funny and easy-going. I liked them together.
They are both so gorgeous and lovely. I’m genuinely sad they broke up. I wish them both the best.