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[NC Bandwagon]

I know that a lot Hollywood celebrities break up with each other often. What I don't know or understand is why they don't go to marriage counseling to try and work things out.

Now, I know that marriage counseling isn't cheap. It's expensive, but I know that celebrities can afford it. So why don't they go to marriage counselors?

[ChynnaBlue]

Why are you assuming they don't? 

[deepwaterdotter]

Maybe they do.  MIght be one of the reasons for the longer-lasting celebrity marriages. 

[NC Bandwagon]

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@ChynnaBlue wrote:

Why are you assuming they don't? 

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Hello, ChynnaBlue.

Usually because they end up hating and despising each other in the end. As if they hated each other bitterly and didn't try to make it work. The way that some ex-couples act towards each other in Hollywood make it seem like they didn't even try to work things out. Example of that: Slandering each other to media outlets, fighting over every speck of dust that the other owns, things like that.

[PamfromCT]

I'm sure many do.  But once you add alcoholism, drug abuse, or infidelity in the mix, so often marriages are broken for good.  Yes, all marriages have ups and downs, but these issues are so frequently downs.  As far as infidelity, once trust is gone, it is gone.  Some can work through this, but it must be very tough.  You have to look at a lot of celebrity lifestyles, and it seems as though stars who avoid this whole scene have had the longest enduring marriages.

[Caaareful Shopper]

The other assumption here is that marriage counseling can 100% save marriages.  The overall divorce rate in the US is nearly 50%. 

[NC Bandwagon]

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@PamfromCT wrote:

I'm sure many do.  But once you add alcoholism, drug abuse, or infidelity in the mix, so often marriages are broken for good.  Yes, all marriages have ups and downs, but these issues are so frequently downs.  As far as infidelity, once trust is gone, it is gone.  Some can work through this, but it must be very tough.  You have to look at a lot of celebrity lifestyles, and it seems as though stars who avoid this whole scene have had the longest enduring marriages.

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Hmm, didn't think of that. I guess the counselor can't help someone or two someones that aren't even "there."

[hckynutjohn]

How come Hollywood celebrities don't go to marriage counseling?

Some of them are already looking for their next spouse, why bother with having to work when they can find another one?

Then there are some that take marriage as serious as I take people that constantly complain about everything and everybody.

[Pearlee]

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@PamfromCT wrote:

 As far as infidelity, once trust is gone, it is gone.

Kathie Lee Gifford was able to move past the infidelity! (I wouldn't be able to).

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