“I’ve never been single,” she says in the December issue of Vogue magazine, regarding her split last year from Irish actor Stuart Townsend.
“This is the first time in my life. From the time I was nineteen, I’ve been in relationships, literally gone from one to the other within a month.”
—Charlize Theron talks relationships, via Radar (this month’s Vogue is just full of quotables!).
Why, hello, there, Serial Monogamy!
This is kind of a tricky quote, to be sure, but I really do feel for Miss Theron. I think I have managed to stay coupled for most of my young adult life, and whatever that quirk says about me, it doesn’t necessarily indicate a weakness in character. But losing your partner is so, so difficult, and for a long time you will not feel competent, and it can be awful to sit alone and try to take inventory of yourself. Of course Theron will use singlehood to develop a much more powerful sense of identity.
Meanwhile, Zoe Saldana—that’s right, Uhura herself!—is reportedly single for the first time in 11 years, having broken a lengthy engagement to Keith Britton. Ugh, sad.
I knew someone in college that was never single. But she was REALLY never single. She would get sick of her current boyfriend but she wouldn’t break up with him until she was solid with a new guy. So “old boyfriend” was dating her and thinking everything was great while she was courting “new boyfriend” who thought they had some new, special thing going.
I believe that is the height of insecurity. And selfishness.
Yyyyyyyeeeeah, that’s definitely something else. That’s “let’s always have a guy waiting in the wings” taken to new depths.