It's been a rough year for celebrity couples with 26 famous couples already calling it quits in 2015. Some breakups were just downright baffling (we're looking at you, Gwen and Gavin), but perhaps the most surprising of all is the conclusion of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's 10-year marriage. If you're still feeling the pain from their split, you are not alone. Read on for the 5 stages of grief brought on by a celebrity breakup in this post originally featured on mom.me.
It happened again. You didn't think that it ever would, but it did.
Your favorite celebrity couple has split up. This time, it's Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner. Ben and Jen. There have been countless others before, but this one? This one you really thought had a chance.
It's going to be okay, really it is. Take a deep breath. Know that you're gonna feel some things in the next few days. It's a process. I'm here to walk you through it now and when, inevitably, it happens again.
Stage 1: Denial
This can't be true. Those gossip papers print things that aren't true all the time. All. The. Time. [Insert celebrity super couple mashup name] should sue. I should sue. SOMEONE SHOULD SUE!
Stage 2: Anger
They were supposed to last. This couple was supposed to make it, dammit. If they can't make it work, who can? I mean, they have both played superheroes. If a couple of superheroes can't make it in this cruel world, how is there any hope for the rest of us? How will the non-superheroes of the world ever make any relationship work out?
Stage 3: Bargaining
This is totally fine. After all, I don't even know [insert celebrity super couple mashup name]. Although, if I lived in Los Angeles, we'd probably all be best friends. We'd probably all be best friends, and our kids would be best friends and it would be the Best. Thing. Ever.
But I don't, and that's OK. They are totally OK. I am totally OK.
Stage 4: Depression
Why don't I live in LA? If I lived in LA, [insert celebrity super couple mashup name here] and I would be BFFs and they never would have broken up. I would have been the calming and normal influence that they needed. Why aren't I BFFs with [insert celebrity super couple mashup name]? Why, dear God? Whhhyyy?
Stage 5: Acceptance
So what? Another celebrity couple has broken up. It happens every day. I will not cry about it (anymore), and I won't even think about it. Yes, if I lived in L.A., we would have been best friends forever. But, I don't, so we're not. There's probably a very good reason that they broke up, and, hopefully, they will both be much happier on their own.
Take a deep breath and get on with the day. After all, tomorrow it will be another celebrity couple breaking up, and the whole process will start over again.
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