I think you might be on the right lines with what you say andrew with
'in like' but I would go one further and say that 'in lust' has a bit to
do with it to. As you say these great big media inflated charecters get
to gether with so many preconceived, media boosted ideas about each
other, which Im sure is added to by the film makers wishing to get
everything swinging along smoothly. That the real people behind the
on-stage actors takes second place only to imerge after all the tinsell
town hoo-ha has died down. Then they realise htings arnt quite what, or
who they seemed!
But there are one or two couples who manage to keep it all together,
like Sean Connery and his wife of several decades, and Johnny Depp and
Vanessa Paradis who are going great guns too. But maybe somthing has to
be said for the fact that they keep there marriages as far away from the
lime-lite as possible. Sean in the out-reaches of Scotland and J.D.+
V.P. in a quaint little village in France.

texing so-long is the cowards way out, even worse than the phone. But to
divorce that way is just shear horror. I thought they said modern techno
is for the better, I sometimes have my doubts. As for the valentine card
thats really painfull, what a bitch. I thought a dude going off to the
john whilst on a date , then just not coming back was pretty raw.

Take you to a restauraunt for a first date then half way through the
meal, go to the loo and never come back- leaving you with the bill whats
more!