Written by Margaret Hardisty on 28 April 2010
WHY MARRY? OPRAH HASN’T
Everybody loves Oprah. Well, almost everybody. I’ve seldom watched her on TV because I don’t have time to turn the TV on – but sometimes she’s up there when I get my nails done. I do pick up her magazine occasionally, which I did recently – her 10th Anniversary Special one – because I was interested in what she would say to 10 O magazine readers who “interviewed” her informally. The one question that was of most interest to me regarded her relationship with Stedman Graham. I, too, would have asked, “Why haven’t you married him?” Would her answer be this? “If I married him, then I’d have to spend time trying to save the marriage and I’m too busy for that.”
We are always amazed at how people idolize the rich and powerful like Oprah with scarcely a blink at whether or not their lifestyles are moral or immoral. What does it matter, right? After all, Oprah gives away a lot of money, doesn’t she? Shouldn’t that make it all right that she lives with her boyfriend of many years without the benefit of marriage? Read the rest of this entry »
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Written by Margaret Hardisty on 20 April 2010
DIVORCE – MARRIAGE – DIVORCE – MARRIAGE…
Some people feel that if they never live with someone outside of marriage, it’s okay to divorce if their expectations aren’t met and then get married to someone else. Why bother to save a marriage if the going gets hard and, heaven forbid, if I can’t have things my own way? If the second marriage is a bummer, then how about a third – and then a fourth and so on? It’s kind of like looking for the Fountain of Youth to search for lasting happiness in that way. It isn’t going to be there.
Certain celebrities are notorious because they’ve been married numerous times – like Elizabeth Taylor, a star of the past who was one of the most beautiful women of her time and played in many notable movies. Did she even try to save any of her marriages, even those through whom she had children? Or, if she tried, did her spouses?
We’ll give her this one: She always married her interests, rather than just living with them. Of course, that sometimes meant she had to snatch them away from their wives. At least that was true in at least one case when she lured singer Eddie Fisher away from his then wife, Debbie Reynolds, another actress.
Taylor either has kept other liaisons secret or she’s changed her thinking where marriage is concerned. She reportedly has been living with a guy for a long time at the time of this writing but now, supposedly, is thinking she’ll take her 8th leap into matrimony.
Then there is the mixing up of marriage and lovers, all at the same time. Larry King, for instance. Still married to Shawn Southwick in his 8th marriage, senior Larry supposedly has been having an affair with his sister-in-law, Shannon Engemann, for the past five years. Read the rest of this entry »
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