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Is marrying a young bride sufficient to ensure a life-long marriage?
In speaking of Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green, commentator Oscar says:
Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do. But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
She had been acting since she was 14 or 15, immersing herself in cancerous Hollywood culture for nearly a decade before marrying. By 2009, the Los Angeles Times described Megan Fox as:
Far from being following some misguided “manospherian prescription”, we can rightfully conclude that Brian had all the information he needed to run far, far away from her before they had ever started dating or at the very least shortly after they had started. Certainly he had plenty of time before they were married.
The Christian’s explanation of the marital relationship is simple:
I desire only to be faithful to my current (or future) spouse and no other, the one to whom God has (or will have) permanently brought together and no one can ever separate. For the Christian there is no heterosexual, bisexual, or homosexual. I can only be faithful to God and the one person to whom God has (or will have) joined me to for life. Outside of this there is only purity and chastity.
That is a “manospherian prescription” that matters, and if a man or woman cannot both agree to that, they should not marry, regardless of how old they are when they marry.
I thought her husband got custody of the children.
This is unfortunate, just looked it up and they are “sharing custody”.
Celebrity culture is terrible.
Creates a false reality…just as social media creates a false reality where people are not exactly as they appear to be (as we’ve seen recently).
I’ve seen her in person a few times (even on set), and she never looked like the cameras portrayed her. Really, there were probably 10-15 girls in my high school who were just as pretty. She looked like an ordinary girl.
Maybe would have been, outside of that industry.
Whether she meant what she said in public or was lying about it for celebrity points, either way, celebrities make bad spousal candidates.
I doubt she was lying. Celebrity culture is what it is.
I doubt any woman (and I can’t think of many men) can be in that industry and not be polluted by it. I don’t think it’s possible to be successful in that industry otherwise.
(think Oscar brought it up mainly to counter the narrative that attraction is more important than character…or even as important. A point I agree with. And my spouse and I married when I was barely a legal adult, younger than Megan)