This statement gave me the tiniest amount of “Hm, you’re not terrible, Justin Bieber.”

I have never seen a couple doing the gushy my life is perfect thing that didn’t wind up getting divorced (usually because of infidelity). 

It may also be a sign of just incredibly immature ideas of what relationships/marriage is supposed to be like. There are a lot of people who buy into the fairy tale on this, and this could just be a young and dumb thing. If they were older I would find it suspect, bc the honeymoon really shouldn’t be over already, but…

She just looks older than she is while he comes across as someone desperately trying to look older.

Oh I don’t believe those people, either. If someone asks how my marriage is, I tell them I’m happy and I love him and he’s my favorite person to hang out with. I don’t gush, but I don’t qualify it endlessly, either. Both feel a little “(s)he doth protest too much.”

It’s possible because they feel a huge pressure to be 1000% in love and floating around on pink clouds all day. Sometimes you DO have to convince yourself that things are fine and you’re normal. 

Same!  I feel that way about all the child stars who are trying to show they are grown now

I came into this wanting to hate on them but honestly? I think this is a pretty healthy way to exist in a marriage. It’s certainly an incredibly mature way to look at it from two young people that I wouldn’t expect as much from. 

I don’t know. If you contrast someone making those statements against the person posting gushy facebook updates about how utterly perfect their spouse and marriage is and how in love and #blessed they are... 

It reminds when of when Ben Affleck thanked Jennifer Garner (at the Oscars?) and said their marriage was work. And then he got caught fucking the nanny not long after that.

Definitely

“It’s like, if you had the money that I had, why wouldn’t you get a monkey? You would get a monkey!”

Justin Bieber is 24 (he’ll be 25 in about three weeks) but he has this perpetual “tween” look. The tattoos, the hair, the shirtlessness, none of this erases my feeling that I can’t find him attractive because that would be second-hand pedophelia. 

I’m always a little suspicious of relationships when discussions of them involve repeatedly stating that not everything is perfect and sometimes you don’t like the person, etc. When you feel the need to say things like that over and over, often unprompted (which may or may not have happened in this interview, I…

I don’t think seeing a marriage counselor is a poor decision. They are both young and seem to want to learn good habits and unlearn bad habits w/r/t relationships. I think the evangelical Christian thing is far weirder than seeing a marriage counselor, but I’m firmly agnostic, so...¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I love the idea of an omnipotent being worrying about Justin Bieber’s boner and subsequent feelings. Really, bless his heart. 

I’m not sure if it’s the styling (her sophisticated outfit paired with his shirtlessness and tattoos) but that photo looks like a nephew being cradled weirdly by his more adult aunt.

I had no miscarriages and I would have been terrified to intervene at 7 mos pregnant.  You did what you could safely do in that situation.  If people could not be garbage humans, it would really be great. 

I am generally a person who helps.

We had to use the pouch. The concept of having to use the pouch in the winter when there’s snow and ice on the ground is what led to the ultimate decision for her to quit working.