Who are Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, Alex?

/_{Backs out of thread}

She'll be knocked up and happily anticipating her new spawn, with her new lover, within two years.

I'd have guessed they broke up because they're both self-absorbed twunts.

*sigh*
I remember a time when people thought of their lives as a "journey" - not a "broadcast".

Don't miss Henry's new opera "The Bowel Movement" tonight on Youtube.

It's not a duet!

phrenicmonkey: Way to tough it out, you two. Couldn't figure this shiat out before you hooked up?

They were together for 5 years... I dated a guy for five years when we were both in our mid-twenties. I always knew I wanted kids eventually but I also knew I certainly wasn't ready for that yet. He, on the other hand, really had no interest in having kids but had stated he hoped he changed his mind. After the 5 years he decided he definitely wanted kids and I decided I definitely didn't want kids with him. He's a good guy but completely irresponsible; it took a while to learn that one about him. Anyways, we broke up over 2 years ago and are really close friends. Just not looking for the same things... grew in different ways. That's all.

Headline 2 months from now: Internet Break-Up Couple Reunite
Headline 6 months from now: Internet Break-Up Couple Marry
Headline 2 years from now: Internet Break-Up Couple in shocking Murder/Suicide

If only he'd worked more on his tongue-blocking and tongue-flutter embouchures he'd not be having this issue today.

DrowningLessons: Well after that I would want to break up with either of them.

/she's got that dead-eyed thing

THIS. That was the first thing I noticed.

Channeling my inner Betazoid, I sense in her eyes sadness, resignation, and doing this out of some sense of obligation but not really deriving any satisfaction from it at all beyond getting it over with. She also just looks *tired*.

Perhaps she feels like putting the *reason* for their break up out on public display is too personal, but because our culture tells women they "should" want to have children, she's the bad guy for being inflexible on that count...and as such she's issuing this as a sort of public apology for failing as a woman as well as a partner. Sucks if that's the case - I feel sorry for her.

He, on the other hand, seems to almost feel virtuous about this. As in, "Look at what a good, decent man I am. I want to have babies! And I'm telling the world to not hold it against her that she's cold and devoid of maternal instincts. I'm doubly good and decent."

If this were my relationship, it would be nobody's damn business why we broke up except in so far as I decided to have a private conversation with this or that friend about it.

//thought I knew what self-indulgent was

(nodding) Something tells me this was more his idea than hers. She just wanted to get it over with, and for some reason she felt obligated.

At my husband's company holiday party this weekend I ran into a couple that will be getting married in a few months and it's clear from information they volunteered that they're not on the same page about having kids. He seems naively idealistic that "she'll come around." She sounds like she has NO interest in having kids, but will allow him to believe she might change her mind if it will get her the fairytale wedding she's always dreamed of. (sigh)

I predict a similar (and likely less pleasant) parting of the ways for those two -- hopefully before they walk down the aisle. 

/don't understand why people can't be honest with themselves and then with their partner about such a basic and critically important thing right up front