Of course thanks to celebrity marriages--Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller and Joe DiMaggio; Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim, Tom Hayden and Ted Turner; Mia Farrow and Frank Sinatra and Andre' Previn--floating down the aisle has always held a lot of Cinderella dust for women. Think "Officer and a Gentleman."
But sometime after the devolution of Princess Di's fantasy life, celebrity marriages went downhill too.
Who can forget the train wrecks of Cher and Gregg Allman; Madonna and Sean Penn; Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovett; Debra Winger and Timothy Hutton; Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson and Pam Anderson and Kid Rock? Ouch.
They even made "perpetual bridesmaid" women like Goldie Hawn, waiting for Kurt Russell, and the late Farrah Fawcett waiting for Ryan O'Neil look good.
And speaking of waiting at the altar, who expected the "man" of Sheryl Crow's dreams to be an adopted baby boy after the Lance Armstrong saga?
Of course there are many reasons for the husband drought for women over 40--from men who are not interested in marriage "yet" to men who are not interested in marriage "anymore" and of course men who are not interested in women to begin with.
But the biggest reason for the husband shortage is probably that men won't date and marry their age.
No, not only will men of 40 not date 40 when they can date 35, 33, 30, 28, 25, 23, 20--do we need to continue?--in the history of the world no man has even said, "All the good women are taken."
Nor in the history of the world has a woman ever walked up to a cute man alone at a table at Starbucks and said, "Can I borrow your chair?"
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