Conscious uncoupling? Really?

[Chocoholism]

AIBU to think that Gwyneth and Chris are so contrived? Have you seen the website they announced their conscious uncoupling on? They posted a photo of them happily sitting in a field.... It's so cringe worthy

I feel for the kids though, I just hope apple don't crumble

Well, however pretentious you find them, they are real people with real children who are no doubt very upset at the moment. Have a bloody heart.

Sad news when any relationship gets to this point

I haven't heard of ConsciousUncoupling before but it did remind me of this:

If eel sorry for Apple. Her parents are divorcing and everyone around her finds it hilarious
I agree and as for the jokes about her name, she's a child FFS and it's not like she chose her name. How big and clever to make fun of her

To be honest, GP has always been quite weird. Her website content is very strange...not to mention she called it Goop. So I'm not surprised at the choice of phrasing and announcement of her separation.

Carrying your baby around is "baby-wearing" and giving it stuff to chew on is "baby-led weaning"... Now amicable separation is "conscious coupling". What is it about wealthy bohemians that they have to give everything A Name?!

Nobody is making fun of the kid.

More so of her parents choice of actions, including self-publicity and child naming.

When I heard about Gwyneth and Chris calling it a day I just thought they was having another child!

..... No?

I really couldn't care less to be honest.

do these people really think they are that important?

they are both shagging around so are splitting. no idea if that's the case but sounds likely.

yawn.

I quite like the concept actually. Although I've no idea about how it's working for them.

I had a reasonably amicable split with my long-term boyfriend and we sat down and talked about our feelings and how we wanted to stay friends etc. It's good for people to realise that breaking up doesn't have to be ridiculously messy/dramatic/heartbreaking. What exactly is wrong with that??

They're in the public eye, so of course people are interested if they split up. Or do people not read celebrity magazines anymore?

WTF is "conscious decoupling"?! Why can't they just say divorce or seperation like everyone else? Do they think normal mortals just blunder blindly and unconsciously into divorce while they consciously decouple because they are more enlightened beings? I think they would get a lot more sympathy if they were more relatable and real instead of acting so superior.

Uncoupling sorry

Coldplay have an album out next month, I heard this morning.

please don't let it be true

It's just wealthy Californian speak for 'amicable separation'. Meh

Though I do really want to slap Gwyneth quite a lot of the time, just because.

Whilst I agree that a marriage break up is always sad and that the children should really be kept out of it, I can't help finding Gwyneth the most irritating, sanctimonious, preachy goody two shoes on the bloody planet.

Their break up photo looks like a fragrance advert. Pour homme. Pour femme.

I quite like the phrase uncoupling, it's the conscious bit that irks me.

Couples separate and we need to find better ways of managing the separations to reduce the pain and damage.
I like to think that is what this couple are really saying.

Unfortunately it just comes across as smug, precious and pretentious.

The last time I saw "uncoupling" was in an episode of Thomas the Tank Engine.

Hmmm, I wonder whether, when kids are being bullied, they get the semantics that sometimes it's that people are taking the piss out of their NAME, not taking the piss out of them.

Of course they're entirely different things. How did I never realise that before?

Sorry - whilst divorce isn't pleasant for anybody, they're inviting ridicule by coming up with phrases such as conscious uncoupling. The pretentiousness of it is cringeworthy. Is there such a thing as 'unconscious uncoupling', then? Better theyd put out a brief statement - after all its nobody else's business really & theyve been pretty much private thus far - and just get on with whatever they're planning to do.

I agree Mistress DeeCee. There's so much self congratulation in the statement about how they're handling it.

It's gotta be better than unconscious uncoupling surely?! That woman grates on my every nerve, seems so controlling and full of herself. And unhappy.

I think Apple will be more upset by the divorce of her parents than by a joke on MN. I found the joke funny

obviously, Apple won't even be on MN or be aware of the joke

I still fail to see how it is funny to play with a child's name in respect to how she will cope with the breakdown of her parent's name.
The spirit of the joke would still stand if her parents' had died. Not so serious now, but it's not play with words that particularly amuses me because of the circumstances.

When she's older and if the gets arrested by drink driving, then it would be funny.

So because someone doesn't hear you say mean things about them it's okay?

It's not okay to make fun of a little girl being upset or "crumbling" just because she's famous or her parents are pretentious or she's not aware you're all sniggering and being rude.