Why So Many Power Couples Fail 

You guys need to do something with that thumbnail Beyoncé and Jay z did not break up

Hi girls. I recently discovered your channel through your analysis of Friends and HIMYM. Could you please do the same with MASH. That would be awesome.

@@jamieyoung9206 exactly! I was terrified for a moment. The Carters are fine TT!

Seriously this feminist bullshit wife is support her husband

Dudes you lost me when you used "alphas" unironically in a video. So cringe, and so inaccurate. The whole alpha/omega thing was disproven by the very guy who came up with it years ago 🥴 who wrote this script? An unpaid college intern?

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So effing true..

Truth has been spoken!

For real

Truth, love is not self imposing its self giving, that's why true love is hard, i believe in God and i'm relearning how to love cause left to me i cant learn to be selfless

Yeh totally not for me then

Yeah that's so true. They don't like being relied on but they also don't like to rely on their counterpart. They should probably not get married if that's the case. Lol

THHHHIIIIIIISSSSS. And the inverse. So many faux-woke actualy misogynists that insist women pay for half, make income, work, etc…. And they SWEAR they can handle half the housework and the such… But then they realize they can barely wash their ass much less take care of a home, and when the women far exceeds then in the workplace as well, they become insecure and jealous.

I feel career women should just look for less ambitious men but they smart enough to be there as support. Many successful men do this why don't successful women. It's easy to tell a guy who wants to be just a family man to stay home than a man who has a career that is almost at equal terms at the start of the relationship.

@@happy153ful I think that’s becoming a thing now that we’re breaking down the stupid roles people take on in your typical “husband and wife” relationship. Some people are happy with the original roles, others are not.

@@miad6160 I would say it's the beginning stages(very early). I see more women outwardly complaining that they can't find someone who makes equal to them or is as successful as them. Videos to full on articles about how men aren't successful enough for modern women.

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power is the main ingredient. if neither had any, they wouldnt be together.

Omg. So true that not many people would think of that reality. Personally, my first reason was because of fame and fortune. Such as a non-famous person wants to marry a celebrity for attention and wealth.

Wrong.

Power is not as glamorous and fulfilling as media makes it seem. Agreed.

😲 I like this a lot. I think I’m going to start saying this.

@@a64750 hard to ask them as they are both dead. Grandpa for a very long time, grandma a few years..

@Impersonal Immigrant that's what she meant.

I like grandma's concept, and id say itd work more like socialism. Distribution of work through the family as evenly as possible based on each individual's skillset.

democracy is crappy thing, real relationship has no rules, just trust and freedom, works for me

Thats exactly what I thought!😂😂

Yes, I always thought that it was because he wanted to have children and she didn’t which is not really something you can compromise on!

@@jaimicottrill2831 Exactly. Aniston didn't want kids, and Jolie came with three kids already in tow. For a man who wants a large family, I imagine that was the deciding factor, though he really should have ended it with Aniston honestly.

@@felisd I could see Brad Pitt being attracted to Angelina Jolie’s maternal instinct (besides her obvious attributes.) I agree if he wanted to have a family and Jennifer Aniston didn’t, they either shouldn’t have gotten married or ended the marriage before he went after another woman.

My thoughts exactly. The math isnt adding up here. 🤔

I loooooovvvee that couple 😍😍😍 though I also like too think that despite being celebrities, they kept their marriage away from the spotlight

Exactly I don't think power couples are bad. Being private seems to be the solution to lasting relationships

@@AirQuotes the best marriages in my view are those that we don't get to hear about in the media. Hence solution= privacy

The real reason is that neither of them where a narcissist. That is they did not have a superiority or inferiority complex. Love wont help you if you are insecure or your partner is cronic insecure

Love them as a couple, aesthetically. But I can’t forgive Bowie for banging teenagers back in the 70s. And it’s not alleged, it’s well known

Society is WAY too obsessed with rich and famous people.

The problem I see is that some of these characteristics were what made them successful, and these characteristics don’t easily go away. And if they didn’t have the characteristics in the first place, they would have been a more agreeable person, but they wouldn’t have met at the top. Some kind of no-win situation. TL;DR: you’re so right.

Also their careers may separate them for months at a time. Just like how they pointed out with the Kanye and Kim separation. And has also happened to countless others

All those things are certainly likely to be part of power couple splits, but I don't think we should we should assume that's the case for all famous relationship splits because we can't entirely judge what we're not a part of. Still, I do think there's likely a lot of truth to what you said.

@@cgarcia3614 abuse, addiction. or falling out of love with each other can also be the reasons.

YES! The ultimate dream man. Not putting his wife down, putting her UP. It's so sad some people feel like they have to tear others down - even their partner. What a nightmare to be with someone like that. That's not love.

Ruth and Marty🌹

True.

Let's just clear up the fact that she was first denied the Nobel because of her gender. He was just being fair, as he should. She won her second Nobel after his death. Just saying cuz you made it sound like he was doing her a favor, when it's just him being a nice person.

@i don't even have a plea , you but you need to take into consideration that it was a while ago and he could have just taken the whole credit. Context is everything. We can be praise for doing what was right also

Power couple is a silly idea. In a relationship there is one person who is a leader most of the time. Then there is a time when another person becomes a leader while the first one rests and submits. So you need one leader and one not-leader who will only take the lead sometimes. Fixed roles. No competition. How can two dominant people be a long lasting couple? They both wanna be leaders. It's not gonna work. I think many people just lie to themselves about who they truly are and choose partnets that are obviously wrong for them.

Good is your ex now that shit is so dumb

A glaring red flag is a grown adult unironically using the words alpha and beta to describe real people/real relationship dynamics. Also thank you for your service.

He was on some incel shit. Sorry you went through that

No *you* did the right thing by dropping his sorry butt 🙄

Such a horrible thing to say to another person, like downgrading someone.. Well, I've never been in relationship due to my youth, but I always thought that if you're with woman who can be more successful than you, you should be proud of her

They were already having marital problems and on the verge of separation before he met Jolie. I remember a year or 2 yrs before Mr. & Mrs. Smith started filming, Jen did an interview saying she didn't want kids and Brad did a separate interview for Ocean's 11 saying how much he loves kids and can't wait to have little girls. When I saw that, I immediately predicted their divorce.

@@YourMajesty143 Yeah, him getting together with Angelina Jolie was considered such a tragic betrayal because it was something the whole world, including Jennifer Aniston herself, saw coming based on their declining happiness but couldn’t prevent. I remember reading that she would insist on being on set when they shot Mr. & Mr. Smith’s sex scenes, probably because she knew he was falling in love with Angelina Jolie. A bad thing you always dreaded might happen and finally does can be so much more painful than something you never would have considered. My guess is that’s why the world was so obsessed with pitying Jennifer Aniston and continued to associate her with the tragedy for years.

@@YourMajesty143 not sure where you got that but it’s not true. She’s never said she doesn’t or didn’t want kids. And after stories came out claiming she had said that, she spoke out publicly refuting that.

@@summersevening I saw the interview on ABC, she said she did not want kids.

Jennifer may have said she doesn't want kids but she can't have kids and she didn't tell Brad before they got married

Yeah that is not what the term "power couple" refers to at all.

@@saltycrunch No I think she has a point. People use it this way all the time.

What you're defining is what a 'power couple' should be, but what it means currently, and has meant, is two powerful people (financial, status, fame, talents) coming together, and seemingly making it work. You're referring to emotional power which is only now getting valued today's society, but power couple today means "separately they were amazing; together they're taking the world by storm" inherently, as you say, more powerful together.

I love this idea. Although this is not what most people mean when they say power couple, this is good.

@@FriendsWithIssues i didn't mean emotional power exclusively (there's nothing wrong if it leads to success and social advancement) but yeah, it is a core component that makes a 'power couple' work in my mind :)

Bingo

Yep marriage is business

Just like royalty or the aristocracy.

Yeah I didn't like that the put Jay-Z and Beyonce in this video. Although they are a power couple. The are more of a brand than an actual couple. We all know they stayed together due to their names begin more valuable together than separated

@@jacquelinelugo5518 Yep!👍🏻🤷🏻‍♀️

She’s too hot for him

@@KittySnicker his personality is amazing though, I can see why she fell for him, but she definitely stayed for the brand

I definitely think it's a brand issue

Nah. I think A big part in play is also that Jay-Z groomed Bey.

@@ZadnoleyaEdits well apparently Beyonce is older than she claims so that could be true but if she is lying about her age, then she was in her early 20s when they started dating

Yeah, I don't care about any celebrities private lives and relationships, but oh god do I stan Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard. Also, a huge fan of anything Michael Schurr, so completely agree with your comment!

Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard are a bad example because he is far beneath her by any metric, looks, fame, wealth, professional success, critical acclaim, charisma, everything and on on top of that he's a drug addict in relapse dragging her down with him. If the genders were reversed people would be branding her as an unattractive, pill popping, gold digging leech that doesn't deserve him but he gets a pass for his ineptitude bc he's a man.

@@edithputhy4948 lol ouch

@@edithputhy4948Yet, she married him.

@@edithputhy4948 See there's some truth to that, but Dax is definitely famous in his own right (though definitely not as much as Kristen), especially since he started Armchair Expert. And for what it's worth, he seems to be working through his stuff in a healthy way so I'd hardly call him pill popping now. Not to mention that Dax was more successful than Kristen when they first got together (at least according to interviews I've seen), so your gold digging characterization isn't really fair either. Besides, I think the video was talking more about couples who each lead busy lives with some level of success than specifically celebrity couples who match each other in fame and/or wealth or whatever other metric.

Yep, months ago, very glad the algorithm blessed me with this channel lol

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disagree with ryan reynolds and blake. he broke up with scarlett because she refused to cut back on work to start a family. blake works significantly less than him now, and still he has a very weird condescending humour towards her. makes me feel he still feels insecure.

@@marykay7878 or scarlet and him were jus not a perfect fit. And the humour you're talking about is mutual from what we see. And how do you know Blake didn't choose to do even less than they agreed? We all don't know for sure but they seem happy

Maria Skłodowska Curie.

@@marykay7878 same I was thinking Blake seem very submissive make sense he leads the relationship

@@marykay7878 I agree!

TOO true! Cos for the cameras, it's all smiles. Then during the divorce, we find out (some of) what was going on behind closed doors. *cough* Amber Heard n' Johnny Depp *cough*

I just feel like The Take here crossed a line by analysing real people. They overthink a lot but media and culture is anyone's and everyone's to think about. The analysis of the phenomena of what makes a power couple and the glamour we attach to it would have been fine. But here you are trying to give reasons for the divorces of real people. Real people we know nothing about and arent our business.

@@shramanadasdutta3006 exactly! Even if a divorce is very public, we never know what really happened between two people

Exactly

@Shramana Das Dutta they don't "overthink". We're just trained to underthink. Particularly about so-called "social issues". I live in a country founded with a violent protest (Boston Tea Party) that convinced itself peaceful kneeling- suggested by a military member, in a country with a military that fights for the right to peacefully protest...was disrespectful to the military. 😒😏🤣

The respect is based on love though, not just career respect.

@@kahkah1986 I'm not talking about career,respect is a man not doing anything to a woman he wouldn't be okay with her doing to him.

@@Valentina-bv9gf 🎯.

@@Valentina-bv9gf That's not respect though. That's basic courtesy and how I act even with complete strangers. Even my friends are getting way better from me than "don't do to them what you wouldn't want them to do to you" and the kind of treatment my wife gets from me is light years away from this. Let's be real here. Every single time I have seen someone glorify respect as this sacrosanct pillar of a relationship, their standards for what they expect from their SO were shit. Food for thought.

A lot of times, this issue can stem from a lack and abundance of self-love. Ironically, both cases can happen simultaneously.

It's so important to have open communication as well! When things go wrong, be open with each other, talk through it and try to fix it (unless your other half is abusive, in which case you leave straight away!)

Yeah. I've read online that spouses should 'Always out love each other.'

Agreed. And to a lesser extent, it was also about social status. Big eventually decided to take himself off the market, but it wasn't for some sex columnist -- it was for Natasha (if I remember the name correctly). In real life, that would have been the ending. Funny how these seemingly terminal attachment styles get mysteriously cured when a really good prospect comes along.

@@annaeverette8960 yeah, I’m still confused as to why Big went back to Carrie. Men like him always stay with women like Natasha, always.

they talk about thing i don’t even consider but end up thinking about for days

They’re totally top tier, eh!

Totally agree ...this is perfect for both entertaining and information

Its epic everytime

He had unrealistic ideas of how she should be a wife. She wasn't a home maker and she's ditzy. It's like he didn't know her before they got married.

Yes! I love this couple and even the time they broke up they still had a good relationship

The dude definitely drives the bus in that relationship duh, and Pink lets him lead.

@@ziwer1 you have to be joking Imao, you'd have to be bIind to think that

@@botanicalitus4194 P!nk writes songs about him all the time. If you listen to the lyrics you can tell who controls the relationship. The dude is also quite wheatlhy and can get any girl.

@@ziwer1 And she can get any man! These girls are attracted to the money. Not him . Don't get it twisted sweetie

Respect is the most important thing in a relationship,a person who loves you will not want to see you hurt or humiliated in any way.

The original 1975 version is better

The original was better. The book is even better

@Kellie I also prefer the remake. I think it’s the Nicole Kidman factor. And the humour.

If you're interested in a contemporary take, one the main couples in The White Lotus has that dynamic too!

Finally someone talks about The Stepford Wives, that book and movie told so much!

I thought so at first as well. But after listening to this take and thinking back on the movie, it is not literal but symbolic. It shows that their love is able to thrive because Daniel Day Lewis’ character sees that he needs to give up control in order to rebalance the power in the relationship.

Depends what kind of control, is it a negative impact on your life or positive. Does couple operate at someone's expense? Are both sides independent, safe and well if it falls apart? Obviously you shouldn't bow to abusers, but seeing team mates as competition to demean or overpower is just as toxic. Relationships are about scratching each other's backs and taking turns stepping up for each other in a balancing best friend kind of way, not being at each other's throats full of contempt.

I agree wholeheartedly. Intent to harm no matter the motivation is sick. To do it in order to gain control is just the most devious..it is indeed toxic

@@belrapture @Dragon Wagon The film's intent is not surrounding the morality of what the characters do (of which I agree is dubious), but to show what is being done and why they choose to do so. Whether they're right or wrong, healthy or unhealthy, is up to you to decide. I'm simply stating that the poisoning with mushrooms, as with most movie devices, is symbolic and not to be taken literally.

Sometimes I heard couples who divorced because healthcare is more affordable when you're single, even though they still love each other :( is it true? I'm asking because I don't live in the US btw

it is. The relationship is no more, therefore failed.

truth :) although i am a forever type of person at heart

@@alfaridarizka865 wait what? Healthcare is more affordable when you're single in the US? That is insane! I mean marriage in all legality is supposed to protect the couple as well as give benefits to public healthcare wherein one becomes the beneficiary of the other. Well, that is how things are in my country.

Agreed. "Together till death parts us" is an overrated statement

Another thing I have noticed why couples don't work. Is a lot of people who want a lover who is like a best friend. Instead of a best friend who just so happens to be a lover. And yes there is a difference. If you can't even be there as friends and communicate. It really hurts the couple.

@@jacquelinelugo5518 I don't know about that. My wife and I have been together for about 14 years now and honestly, if it wasn't for our romantic interest in each other, we wouldn't have been spending any kind of significant time together, because we have such different mindsets, hobbies, individual goals, etc... This is why we have agreed to not refer to each other as friends (though I see her as my companion and next of kin). That said, our differences are truly what creates that magnetism and complementarity of personalities and roles between us. In fact, I'd say communication in our marriage is much better than for the average couple because knowing we have frameworks on opposite ends of the spectrum, it is obvious to us at every moment that we need to make an effort to understand the other. I feel like couples can sometimes who have too much in common and relate to each other so well they grow complacent. So when one of them shows individuality, the other has trouble empathizing with a suddenly very different POV and might even start resenting them for breaking the convenience and peace.

Nah, most couples don't work precisely because they marry for love, not for money/business. All the old money people marry for business and they stay together. Yeah they all have mistresses/toy boys but they go into marriage with the expectation of bolstering the family name/business so they don't have expectation of 'love' like all the middle class people have. As long as everyone is on the same page it works.

@@aesyamazeli8804 Preach. Power couple been around for ages

Good point.

but dave cheats

Thought the same thing.

@@sanjana5106 how do u know

@@sanjana5106 So do half of the rest of this list

That’s not always true

Yes, they need to feel good in their own area, few couples actually are from the same but they see it as" two against the world ". Couples should have something one or the other dont have. Other couples in the same area feel that if the other one gets more succes then they are not that worth it.

So not true. Finding someone in the same area is great because you share your passion, views overlap, you can understand each other's work, you understand each other's references, you know the struggles they have with finding jobs/their sector because it's your own. I know many many couples who met in college while studying the same thing, including me and my boyfriend of five years. We draw strength from one another, share our frustrations and interests and understand each other perfectly. While yes there is competition as we sollicitate for the same jobs, there is no jealousy because in a good relationship you wish the other success, and their gain is partially yours. Sometimes my boyfriend went on job interviews i wasn't invited to and vice versa. Less fun but it's fine. Also: do not forget how vastly different one sector can be. At the company i'm working for i don't even understand what half the people there are doing, and my boyfriend working in the same sector as me does something entirely different as well. I can imagine an actor who only does tv shows and an actress doing niche horror movies find their jobs very different. The problem is being jealous instead of encouraging. If you're envious of someone in the same sector, you'll be jealous of them when they're in another sector when they're doing better than you.

The Curies were one of the greatest power couples and science dream team in history. Other professions probably have it hard but the science community ecourage sharing for the most part

@@madnecessity idk much about them, we’re they in the same field of research as well? That’s great

Ryan Phillipee* and Reese Witherspoon.

@@Torihappyness You could see the marriage was on the rocks when they were being photographed after Reece's Witherspoon's Oscar win. Ryan Philippe's face and the looks he was giving his wife..........

Daphne should have married that prince!!!

Chrissy Teigen only rose to fame as John Legend's wife and then built on that but they're not really a power couple when he's the only reason she got power

@@edithputhy4948 yeah, they should have put in David and Victoria (Post Spice) Beckham.

@@JoyJoy-sc1ov *Posh

I sense envy and bitterness. Let the hate flow through you. It makes you strongah🤣🤦🏾‍♂️

Is that Chris Evans in a durag?? 💀

@@Feliciatanktop yes 😃

Beyoncé is too hot for him

I can. Listen to how he speaks about her as a symbol; he's not really into her as a person, in MY opinion. He only ever speaks about almost losing "the baddest woman in the game". Maybe he has lately and I havent been exposed to it, but everytime I used to hear him speak of her, he'd speak of her running the music game and her looks. I've never heard him speak about how funny and smart and sweet and kind and driven and goofy she might be (all things I think of her because I've been a fan since DC and I saw her b4 she became reclusive). This is all MY opinion. Not saying it's fact and I do admit I haven't paid attention to them lately, so maybe I'm just behind. Either way, I honestly can believe he was unfaithful

@@Xara_K1 wow this is great insight I never really noticed thanks for that.

Like Charles and Diana. Aside from him cheating on her, which is so egregious, he was also jealous of her popularity

OH NOOOOOOOO!!! I have two girlfriends, but very few people on YT are happy for my relationship success. They disl*ke all of the videos I make with my 2 girlfriends. Please be kind, dear whit

There are couples that both partners are celebrities and work very well together.

I feel highly successful people have really exaggerated traits that make them work long hours for peanuts. These traits may not translate well to relationships because they are just so passionate about thier career and not thier parent/relationships. Though I believe therapy has helped alot successful people be in relationships healthier.

@@bubblegirl9854 yes of course there are. But they are the minority. The vast majority of two celebrity marriages end in divorce

@@AxxLAfriku Break up with one idiot.

And it wasn't a Golden Age for that demo. A lot of those relationships that are glorified today were fraught, unhappy, performative, and held together merely by the conventions of the time and the need to keep up appearances. People are just always nostalgic for times that never really existed.

@@Smartass012 Do you have any idea how many women became addicts to deal with the narrow space they occupied? There was a whole industry devoted to drugging housewives into complacency because the fifties were no Paradise for any housewife. Then the doctors turned around and blamed them when they became addicted to mother's little helpers they thought were safe and non-addictive because the doctor prescribing them had assured them they were safe and non-addictive.

@@Smartass012 What? Who ?where there are almost nothing left of the big hospital industry of the fifties that was a cudgel of the 1950s era big pharma/ state hospitals. HMO and Ronald Reagan saw to that. Now we have people hooked on heron and meth and slinging drugs and trafficking people, who were either surviving or trying to get a hit.

@@Smartass012 Actually, I am stunned by your inability to recognize history, reality and actual social ills of society.

The Golden Age was the 40s

Very few men can handle the success of a woman.

It's almost always when she earns more, be it money, fame, attention, status, than him, she loses her curiosity about him and drifts along her instincts. Every story has different perspective.

So true

@@bokyarao873 No. Toxic masculinity doesn't. We've seen enough of "rich cruel woman is taught the meaning of life by small town guy" to agree with that. The other perspective IS the mainstream one.

@@bokyarao873 Thats faIse, she doesnt "Iose her curiosity", but rather he acts out in a very toxic way and she reaIizes she doesnt have to put up with his garbage.

Not to mention they stay together because they have kids. And they need a two parent household to afford to raise the children

Weird, but isn't divorce more common among the poor. You know many problems can be solved with money.

Makes you wonder why marriage even exist, right???

Afford it? I know several couples with lower socioeconomic status that got divorced.

@@robbyten100 it depends on the situation, some people need lawyers because they can’t agree on anything and they end up costing a fortune in the end

Well I wouldn't call them perfect by far but with all thier money and fame individually they still decided to stick it out and I will praise that.

@Mardiyah Ch how do you know if he’s still cheating or not? Exactly none of us have proof of that. I don’t see the point of making assumptions ab celebrities and their business anyways. They’re not fucking, feeding, or financing us.

@Mardiyah Ch yeah and that was years ago but we don’t know an the state of their marriage now, on top of the fact that a good deal of the songs on the lemonade album were made years before the album was even released and probably the only reason those songs may have been released is for good PR, publicity, and chat. & some of the songs discussing infidelity related to the beginning of their marriage hence why the songs had a range of different emotions because it was different time frames from heartbreak, sadness, anger, mistrust, disgust and laughing at the matter to repairing the relationship, rebuilding trust and forgiveness in addition to lessons from elders and family mentioned in the album. It’s the way y’all forget that artists don’t completely control when songs release for me💀 there’s a possibility that he still may cheat but there’s also a possibility that he isn’t. My main point is that there’s just no real purpose or gain in assuming things ab celebrity relationships. They deal w shit just like us.

@@happy153ful They are trying to make it work. But what if was Beyoncé to cheat on him? I don't think he would be this comprehensive.

@@bmb0goddess65 He confirmed himself that he cheated on her multiple times.

Same...honestly, with fictional characters, you know all the details.

@@raisyrosye7656 I mean...for me, the fictional couples/ships I root for seem to be a better example of healthy relationships because their dynamics are seem to be more human than the real life couples.

Plus with real life couples you don’t know a lot about them off screen.

@@sanjramesh3189 yes, people only root for these couples because of the so called beauty and whatever. It's sad. What's more important is understanding each other and loving each other, no matter what they did and also how they keep their love stronger.

but then again she's not really a catch herself either

He wasn't a bad person, just emotionally unavailable. Honestly they worked great as friends, but because it's TV, *of course* they had to get back together 🙄

Christopher Noth was pretty handsome in the early seasons of Law & Order. But on the show, I’m not sure what she saw in him. Fun? Sure. I guess the sex was great or else she wouldn’t have come back to him. But Big as a life partner? I didn’t really see it.

Ugh, both posers trying way to hard to be relatable

Agree. I see a lot of respect and love between them

They are our Gibraltar rock.

Chandler and Monica!!! Chandler and Monica!!

@@rmsleftpinkiestoenail6771 " MY EYES MY EYES " 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@unlikelyspore1406 totally To me their relationship is the most realistic depiction of a modern and " common mortals " relationship ❤

Also, fictional.

Lol!! 😂😂😂

evil

This video shows The Take has a very loose definition of what constitutes a power couple... Because of what my wife told me of the show, that one couple from Bridgerton really ain't it.

@@AD-ry7br Never having seen Bridgeton, I'll take your Mrs's word for it

Were's the couple from?

@@agnessofiacastrocarvalho774 Bridgerton

@@lilil9752 oh, i've heard about that

to be fair, he was taking advantage of her inexperience and lack of knowledge to sleep with her under false pretense

@@edithputhy4948 didn't say he was a saint but doesn't really make it fair, abuse is way worse than lying.

How are Ben and Leslie codependent? Hardly.

Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee are the best 💖💖💖 Also, Pierre and Marie Curie is an inspiration as well. First couple to win Nobel Prize together 😊

@@adwaitab.3622 He left his first Indian wife for a white woman, they're not ideal couple by any means

Thank god, lady... Almost thought any discussions about marriage were always about the failings...

@@user-iy7jo7bq4f There is hope yet! ☺️

@Impersonal Immigrant Such cynicism, y'all...

Jay Z.

If every man cheats when he can... what does that say about men? Are they even capable of love then?

they cheat because they can? everyone can cheat (even the rich wife can), but u shouldn’t. wtf

Sadly working class men cheat just as much as rich men cheat. It’s about the character of the person, not status or opportunity. A person that wants to cheat will always cheat and find a way to. A loyal person that genuinely loves their partner will never cheat, will never even cross their mind because their biggest fear is hurting and losing the one they love. No couple recovers from cheating even if they pretend to be happy after reconciliation. Trust is broken completely. Best to go your separate ways unless you want to always wonder if you are good enough. Because what cheating ultimately says is “you are not enough”.

I am attractive. Women, good looking ones, come on to me a lot. I do not even look at women other than my wife. Why? Well first because I am in love with her and second because I am already used to all that attention. It's like background noise for me at this point. The average/ugly/poor man who only gets approached once every 5-10 years is much more likely to not be able to resist when he gets that sweet validation. The issue of why an attractive celebrity gets cheated on by her husband is more likely an issue of her being so busy he feels neglected, which is another problem entirely.

Same. & seeing things from the inside, a lot of it is also 100% fake. People in the closet, publicity marriages, people who never spend any quality time together & dont see each other but are “together”. People constantly like to point out the cheating part, but they forget how different their lives are. A lot of them hardly get to spend time with their partners, like when they’re on set for months & months while they play other people on screen. They’re mostly lonely af.

I wish she did more, she’s honestly a great actress, she deserves a B-list if anything

Good one but these two would just get it wrong

Because people fall out of love. It’s perfectly normal and a part of life. People change and that’s ok, sometimes we’re compatible until we’re not. The most respectful thing at that point is to simply part ways.

@@shannonceleste5557 This. They spent 27 years together, they raised kids together and seem to be on good terms despite parting ways and work together. I don't get why everyone thinks every marriage has to last forever, sometimes they don't and that is okay.

How would money help?

Alpha comes from 'alpha, beta, omega' in Greek, it's the order of the ALPHAbet, is about being the first, a leader.

Was thinking the same thing. This Alpha, Beta and Sigma stuff is so cringe. It's basically astrology for conservative men.

if you don't take it literally like some incel nuts on the internet, it's just an analogy for dominant, captivating personalities that thrive in leadership roles. when you take it too seriously and make a misogynist armchair psychologist ideology out of it that celebrates and reveres toxic masculinity, that's where that expression becomes an issue.

@@edithputhy4948 was there ever a time where Alpha was a good analogy for anything decent through? I swear to god breadwinner has less negative connotations, it's basically always was a neutral term. This channel in particular knows about importance of using a right terminology (re: The Manic Pixie Dream Girl video) or at least acknowledging problematic roots of a term. But again, I would argue Alpha was always used in misogynistic and your typical toxic masculinity way anyway. "It was Al Gore, though, who really helped the idea of male alphas and betas blow up in the 1990s. In late 1999, Time magazine, reporting on Gore’s hiring of Naomi Wolf as a consultant, reported that “Wolf has argued internally that Gore is a ‘Beta male’ who needs to take on the ‘Alpha male’ in the Oval Office before the public will see him as the top dog.” This notion - that Gore was trying to step out of the hypermasculine shadow of Bill Clinton - proved irresistible to the media. “Can Gore Go Alpha?” wondered the Times in a 1999 article which then then offered some thoughts from experts on how Gore could achieve the alphaness he was seeking. One of those experts suggested that he was just too loyal a husband and father to be an alpha: “He stays with the same woman, he likes his kids. He’s photographed with the grandchild. He doesn’t hide his age, He’s perfectly decent, and real men aren’t perfectly decent.”

@@lost_times Right which were then used to describe the roles of wolves in a pack. As in alpha male and beta males of the pack. People using it are referencing ecology and a set personality order, where animals compete to be the leader. Ecologists studying wolves assumed that the wolf with the strongest qualities inevitably must be the leader. Fights between wolves must be them competing for alpha status. This is now considered *totally wrong* . People who then attribute this to human society are perpetuating a psudoscience. Wolves obay the lead wolves because they are his kids, the lead wolf is the dad the lead female wolf is the mum, wolves fight with each other not to establish a social order, but because wolves fight with family, even thier parents, it means nothing. The original theory anthropomorphised social competition onto animals , which people then use to justify acting like a **** because it's natural. The scientist behind tr study completely disavows his work as flawed and incorrect. It's a phrase often used not by professionals but self help pushers and right wing bros. Not exclusively, but if you're ever listening to a talk and someone brings it up there is a good chance they are trying to sell you some ridiculous self help that you don't need. It ain't real and it's not based on sociology. Alpha , beta and gamma particles are an examples of another use of this term. Far more neutral. Nothing to do with priority or personality type, just useful letters to distinguish based on the alphabet. You won't find this personality type stuff predating the flawed wolf research. However you will find an explicit parallel to the use of these terms in fanfiction p*** where people incorporate wolf "characteristics" to their sex stories. It's still psudoscience, it's rather silly and sometimes awkward that people take it seriously.

yeah but Ugur Sahin has taken the spotlight and leading role as CEO and face of the firm while she was given a secondary position both in the company and in the public eye. I wonder if that would have ever occurred with the genders swapped

yeah it's reaIIy dumb and 99% of people who use that term have the IQ of a baked potato, but it can be used occasionally to describe the aIpha archetype we created in media.

@@botanicalitus4194 Good point👍🏻.

These terms are use to describe Gorillas or wolves. Not meant for humans at all. We are more complex and unpredictable to be put under a label.

OMG are they giving us that? Did someone specifically request it?

You need a white man, mate!

Yes! Totally understand. But I hope you don't assume that every man on earth fits this description. There are good ones and I hope one comes into your life ... IF you want that. :)

@@colleenjohnson5902 lol if she does meet someone good enough to change her mind, ill put up money he don't stick around

I mean yeah, that's most of The Take videos

Agree! I like the Take, but their low key misandry shines through at times. They should be more aware of their bias.

@@pistolen87 yall calling that misandry? You just have to acknowledge that most of the times, it's the men feeling insecure in these types of relationships, and female power has for a long time being something frowned upon and that women couldn't have, and always feeling like they have to make themselves smaller.

@@kenza9627 I acknowledge that men can feel insecure in power couple's, but do they have reason to do so more than women? I think yes, since women (on an aggregate level) judge men more on their power/status, and men judge women on more on other qualities. Power is a less valuable quality in a woman for a man, hence why powerful men, more often than powerful women marry "down".

@@pistolen87 but that’s misogynistic in itself, the fact that some men don’t value being powerful as a good attribute in women. Those men always wanna feel superior and that’s straight up toxic that u need someone less powerful than to make urself feel better. Why not thrive for equal relationships

I don't think they are using it as evidence. But more so, they researched what issues can lead to power couples spliting and showing examples of those depicted on screen.

Fictional couples are not being used as evidence but this is a channel that analyses subjects in the framework of pop culture ; Movies and tv series . So you pick a topic and also analyse how it has been explored in the media.

Evidence for what??

@@MsDiMera2 True, yes good point! They certainly didn't specify that in the title nor in the description however, if you read it.