She said: A celebrity lives a very different daily life that includes paparazzi and all that jazz. I’m thinking it may be hard to keep their relationships private; however I do admire the few celeb couples that seem to try to keep details to themselves ie. Jay and Bey or Halle and Gabe. I’m sure it helps to maintain some privacy and solidarity between them. My view is that too much publicity is NOT a good idea.

On a more relatable level, making a relationship “public” nowadays seems to involve being introduced as a boyfriend or girlfriend to friends or family, or the grand gesture of making it “official” over the online social networking site of your choice. I think the most popular is the “In a Relationship with _____” status option on Facebook. Is it a good idea? No, if it’s your 1 week anniversary. Ha!

On the real, I think like an expensive pair of shoes or your fave can’t live without gadget (ie. my iPod touch!), a good relationship should be protected, treasured even. People tend to put it all out there without considering the fact that there may be jealous or just plain mean people that want you to be as unhappy as they are. Meanies will be meanies no matter what, but if you can avoid having issues and a possible break up as a result then do whatever it takes! Sad that a happy couple can’t just be happy and the world just smiles with them, but so is life.

My point is keep your personal business to yourselves because it'll help in the long run.

He said: It’s hard to imagine that a relationship that is scrutinized by the public, can ever work. Every fight multiplied, every non-issue becomes the crime of the century, but most of all individual pride must be put to the ultimate test. How do you face the world and your celebrity friends with someone on your arm that supposedly cheats on you? Better yet, how do you face the world with someone you love, who is known to abuse you?

I can’t imagine the strains and difficulties in dealing with a relationship like that. If you are a figure in the public eye, then as much as you may pretend to not need or not care about the rumors, you have to. You need fans; you need their love, their respect, both of which depend on them “knowing” you. Knowing you entails your relationship, and that’s where it really all changes. I sympathize with all celebrities, and I can whole-heartedly say, I do not envy their lives.

Depending on how you handle the circumstances in your intended private relationship, you become a hero or a target of malice and slander for years; your entire career may be forgotten.

It is with this in mind then, that keeping what is in fact your private life, private is really the best idea. It’s not a secret because every celebrity already does it, and will continue to do so. It’s the best remedy as with the less relationship issues to be discovered or reviewed, the less of a personal hamper on pride, and even on your productivity in whatever it is that you do. We’re talking about celebrity egos faced by the peer pressure of the world; how can they not break up at first fight?

I guess I should point out that, knowing that your relationship is in the public eye should serve as even more incentive to do it right and to lessen the skeletons to be found in that closet or in the dark or whatever other cliché. I can only say good luck with all of that. Maybe it’s good “kudos” to them that make it work. For those that don’t, I guess it just comes with the territory, unless the foundation of a relationship is truly well formed then I’m afraid under the storm of the public-eye, it will beyond doubt weather away.

Personally, I think it’s important to have a certain amount of publicity to a relationship, just to concrete that you are in fact in a relationship. Beyond that though, the word privacy was not invented by fools, and I consider my relationship my private life.

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