14 DAY TRIAL // In an blog post entitled “Conscious Uncoupling,” Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay singer Chris Martin announce their common decision to break up their relationship that has held the front page of tabloids around the world for years.
As you'd imagine, the announcement speaks of mutual consensus when reaching the decision to terminate their relationship, which is always the best way to make your breakup public. It makes it seem like both members are mature adults who bear each other no grudges.
The article published on Gwyneth's lifestyle website Goop and signed “Gwyneth & Chris” begins with “It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate,” that sounds a bit like an obituary for a dead person. The story goes on to describe how both of them have been actively engaged in making things work for some time now, but in the end there wasn't anything left to rekindle the flame.
“We have been working hard for well over a year, some of it together, some of it separated, to see what might have been possible between us, and we have come to the conclusion that while we love each other very much we will remain separate,” reads the confession.
This leaves the question as to what exactly is going to happen to their two children, daughter Apple, 9 and son Moses, 7. Well, Gwyneth anticipated that people would be wondering about that and decided to address the issue before any speculations arise.
“We are, however, and always will be a family, and in many ways we are closer than we have ever been. We are parents first and foremost, to two incredibly wonderful children,” can be read in the article and thus clearly understood that the children will be on both their minds.
The statement ends with the usual request for privacy so that they can work out their problems in peace, away from the watchful eye of the media “we ask for their and our space and privacy to be respected at this difficult time. We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and coparent, we will be able to continue in the same manner.”
If all Hollywood breakups were like this, gossip magazines and tabloids would run out of business in a matter of months, but, as it is, there are plenty other couples who decide to have very bitter and very public separations that make for scandalous headlines.