Love at Various Stages

I am going to relate this article to some recent "celebrities" in the news in the past few weeks.

Love Lost - Jon and Kate Gosselin have been in the news a lot in the past several weeks. Stars of their own reality show, "Jon and Kate Plus Eight", the couple who has been married for 10 years recently filed for divorce. Jon was accused of having an affair with a young woman he met at a bar. Voyeurs looking at their relationship have seen Kate as a very opinionated, domineering woman and Jon as a emasculated male with no job or real life. He was married young and shortly thereafter strapped with 8 children and a reality TV show. Neither Jon or Kate knew what to do with all the fame nor all the money that the show brought in.

Love Can't Wait - Farrah Fawcett died of anal cancer last week after a valiant 3 year fight. By her side was the love of her life (for 25 years), Ryan O'Neill. She had a son with Ryan although they never married. He spoke about his desire to marry Farrah when and if she could say "I do." Unfortunately, she was too drugged with pain medication to ever recover enough for anything, including getting married.

Love Gone Astray - Surprised we shouldn't be when politicians are caught having extramarital affairs. After all, this activity is as old as time itself. So, when Cong. Sanford was caught last week in Argentina with his mistress when he was supposed to be hiking, it wasn't really big news. This time, we didn't see his wife, Jenny standing beside him as he let America know he made a mistake. However, taxpayers could have been taken aghast when finding out that our money was used for this trip abroad.

What we see here is "love" in various stages of ruin. Sure, these folks were all famous and perhaps we can't even identify with them or their issues. But, we should because these flaws in love and relationships happen everyday and we certainly are not immune. Jon and Kate could and should have taken the moral high road and stopped taping the show to work on their marriage and their commitment for the sake of those eight little children. Farrah and Ryan should have acknowledged their love years before her death. I guess they were too busy with their careers to have time for marriage and commitment also. Time moved on and tragedy prevented their union. Mark and Jenny Sanford needed to work on their marriage for the sake of their 4 kids. We can't keep excusing our politicians from leading a honest, decent relationship with their wives but we do. Love does change and does go through stages, but it should never go through these three stages.