14 DAY TRIAL // Jennifer Aniston’s upcoming film, “Love Happens,” reaches Australia on November 26. With this in mind and given the very name of the movie, Harper’s Bazaar Australia focuses in its most recent interview with the star precisely on that, namely on how experience and some failures have changed Aniston’s outlook on romance. From what she says, she will always be an incurable romantic.
Fans know that Aniston doesn’t actually have a brilliant reputation in the media as regards her personal life, many a celebrity blogger and even tabloid editor often mocking her as the always desperate, needy and clingy female star who can’t hold on to a man for more than a few months in a row. Whether that be the truth or not is not up to us to determine or judge upon, more so that Aniston herself insists she’s far from how the media is portraying her.
She’s not a cynic when it comes to love, the actress tells Harper’s, but quite on the contrary. “I’m still a romantic. I still believe in love.” Aniston says. She then moves on to speak of the importance of closure in real life. “I think it’s important to have closure in any relationship that ends – from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.” the actress adds.
As for why some relationships fail, the star points out the woman also has a share of the blame, even when it doesn’t seem so at first sight. For instance, Aniston explains, most women have this tendency to try to do everything in a relationship, which inevitably leads to a rift and an outburst when she feels she can no longer take it. According to the star, though, the woman is just as responsible for the failure as the man, because she allowed herself to go this far.
“Oh yeah [women do too much in relationships]. I think that’s because it’s just instinctual as a woman to be the caretaker of your home. Women complain that men don’t do enough, but it’s your own fault. You train your man to do nothing. You can’t blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don’t ask for it right off the bat.” Aniston says for the same magazine.
For the full interview with Jennifer Aniston, please see here.