Taylor Swift engagement - puzzled

Is there a link to this story about leaked documents discussing a break up?

Wasn’t it pretty much confirmed as a PR stunt with the leaked documents confirming the plan for their break up? Seems suspicious they’re now conveniently engaged….

I'm more puzzled as to why that made headline news.

Honestly the best marriages I see is where the man thinks he’s punching. And is. And knows it. Forever.

My husband is the polar opposite to my exes. We met and fell in love, it's most likely the same for them. Not really something to overthink.

I am not in the least romantic but i went to bed with a smile after reading about their engagement.
Just the way he looks at her ! and she seems so comfortable with him, their billions don't seem to come into it ,their relationship seems so simple and genuine and i think they are thanking their lucky stars that their paths met.

I really hope this is the real thing for both of them, and i can't believe i'm saying this but i am looking forward to the wedding !

100% agree Travis is so proud to be her BF, fiancé and show her off.

Whilst some people have a “type” I don’t think everyone does, or rather I think the common traits are not so obvious. Alternatively one could hypothesis that TS history wasn’t working for her so she sought something different. I don’t think it’s about arty/sporty or Brit/US. He’s a very handsome muscular sportsman, he’s successful and confident and he makes her feel feminine and looked after. It seems to me SO obvious why he’s a better match than Joe Alwyn

I think the parasocial relationship people have with this woman is absolutely bizarre. You don’t know her, you don’t know her type, her personality (despite what she puts on for the camera.. anything really; and frankly it’s absolutely none of our business.

I find something very off with him.. I don't think he's genuine. I think it's in his eyes.

So all Left = good, all Right = bad.
What a very sad way to live.

Neither of them need a PR relationship. He's worth 70m on his own and had a successful podcast in the US with his brother before all this.

I suspect it stuck because they had a conversation early on where she said look, I have cameras on me when I go to the gym, get on/off a plane, enter or leave a building - plus you'll get a load of shit in the media about how I'll write songs about you - and he said, bring it on. I think he said once that if she can be cool with the attention he should be able to deal with it himself!

Unfortunately almost all of her previous boyfriends acted like they were embarrassed to be dating her like Jake G/Matty H/Calvin Harris and of course Joe. I can't really remember any apart from poor Tom Hiddleston who would even admit it!

My DH is the absolute polar opposite to the boyfriends I had before I met him. It’s not that strange to me.

My childhood best friend was a vegan, protest-attending, very alternative surfer who only dated boys with long hair and mostly played in bands. She ended up married to a former marine, current armed response guy with a crew cut and biceps bigger than her waist 😅 People change I guess.

TK is a big hulk of a man. Maybe after all she has lived through in the public eye she fell in love with a man who she felt could protect her from the madness of the world she lives in.

I’d not given it much thought before reading your post but actually, I get it.

I had a particular type - tall, thin, academically inclined but little in the way of practical life skills. I was effectively dating the male version of myself. Every single relationship was ultimately miserable and ended.

My husband is quite the opposite to those who went before him and it works. We complement each other well.

I deffo think you’re overthinking it. My type was alternative indie boys and now I’m marrried to a woman 🤷‍♀️

And my DWs favourite band is probably S Club 7 or the Spice Girls lol

I think it’s pretty common to think that what you were doing previously didn’t work, so you’re going to try something different.

It isn’t always a conscious choice either, they could have just clicked in a way they hadn’t with other people. I definitely liked the broody indie boys, which was only leading to heartache for me. I met my husband and certainly didn’t like him to begin with but when I actually spoke to him, it just clicked. I’ve never connected with someone like I did with DH. I don’t believe in soulmates but it has never been as easy to talk to anyone like I talk to DH.

I met DH quite young but I certainly didn’t want to like him. He’s exactly what I didn’t want - gets on well with my dad, has a boring responsible job, not a brooding bone in his body and when he tries to grow his hair he looks like a sheepdog! Sometimes you’ve got to go against something you want or you think you want. You can definitely overthink things and TS is definitely a thinker.

I’m not 100% convinced it’s not a manufactured “romance” though. TS is a PR genius and an excellent performer. I don’t know if I’d go as far as to say PR stunt but a contracted marriage wouldn’t be the most ridiculous suggestion given their wealth. Marriages as business arrangements were popular at another point in time and they do still happen now but to a lesser extent. Or less well publicised I guess.

Is it really that relevant? You presumably know enough to discern that he’s different to her previous partners, given that you’ve made a post about it I’m prepared to accept your judgement on that. I probably didn’t need to say the bit about not knowing who she’s engaged to. My point was that, having got it wrong many times before, it’s often easier to tell when you’ve got it right. Maybe she thought she had a type but when that didn’t result in the right relationship she reevaluated what she really wanted in a partner. I’ve seen it happen with friends a few times now. As you get older your priorities can change.

Does it matter?Her choice. Seems a waste of time picking her relationship apart.
Life is too short to worry about such trivial stuff.

If you want her miss americana film, there’s a bit where she debates with her team about putting out a tweet in favour of a democrat candidate. Her management are against it, she does it anyway, but does talk about how all her career she was told “do not be like the Dixie chicks” (who criticised Bush and it damaged their career and led to death threats), and her dad is also against it, saying something like “I had to buy you your first armoured car”. Plus the bomb threats that were clearly very significant in Vienna.

I can certainly understand a reluctance to put yourself in the (possibly real) line of fire in that environment.

Maybe her “ex’s” were just a marketing / PR thing to get uk/ European fans? And so not really ex’s? 🤷‍♀️