The truth is we can't even imagine what their lives are like. There is no way! Angie grew up around famous people, Brad didn't that I know of. Regardless, how could they have ever really known the machine that would become Brangelina??? So, they fall in love on a movie set. I don't think it was long at all before Angie adopted Z. Not long after that, she was pregnant with Shiloh. Brad had never been a parent. Angie had been a single parent to Mad but for a pretty short amount of time. I feel that once they got the old baby making and adopting thing happening, it took on a life all it's own. You can Say you want a baseball team of kids, but I don't care if you have nannies, if you are rich, lets add on that your careers pull you in different directions, and that one or I would say both of you also have outside interests as well. That is a $hit storm of busy!!!!! Little kids can maybe roll with that, maybe not. Every child is different and perhaps some of the kids didn't love being uprooted all the time. We probably won't know until they are adults and can say what their own perspective was.
I've said this before, Angie use to rave about the man Brad was and the father he was. I don't know how to explain away him saying he drank or did drugs everyday since college and that didn't seem to be a reason for her to end their relationship.That says to me it went on through out their entire relationship! What I still stand by is kids aren't little forever. Once they are tweens or teens, it's a whole new ballgame. It wouldn't be hard for me to see her saying, too much is staying the same with Brad- I don't want my kids raised by some one with a drug or drinking problem. On the other hand, I don't think Angie's a saint, not even close.
What I really hope they see now- which to me is just so freaking unbelievable!!!!! They weren't like a couple of 20 year olds that had no life experience!!!! I hope they see you better be real sure who you have kids with. Because you can break up every day and twice on Sunday and you are still going to be those kids parents. Neither one of them is on my favorite people list
but what has been done is already done. Take the high road, know that you can find another partner and probably will. Those kids aren't going to find a new parent. Even if it is a step parent, you are still their mom or dad. So get your $hit together. Stop giving interviews about your family. Focus your time and energy on making sure your kids are ok. And if it kills you, you remember you had a choice, to fall in love, to fall out of love, to give up, to fight for your marriage, or to change undesirable behavior if nothing else for your kids. Just don't talk about it, put your kids first and hope you haven't damaged them too much already! I cringe when I see what is out there for any of us to read knowing that some day all of their kids will be able to read it too. Some of them probably already are!!! There are enough couples that have children and have ended their relationship and they appear to be anyway, putting their kids first. I hope that Brad and Angie will follow their lead from here on out. Less is more!
I read Brad's interview from GQ. The more he talks, the less I like him... He's 53 for crying out loud!!!! He sounds like he is 23!!!! Time to grow up, way past that time. You know how they say character is what you do when no one is watching. Well him having to put all of that out there, it just becomes somehow less genuine to me. Just go do what your learning in therapy. Just be a better dad if you feel you were lacking. Why say all of that stuff??? As a young adult child reading that, if that was my dad, I am pretty sure I would have rather he just showed me by deed and not by words- words that he said to everyone!!!! And a crappy photo shoot to boot!!!!
I remember years ago Brad saying in an interview how much it bothered him that roles that he wanted weren't the ones he got. He gave the example of Leo Dicaprio getting better roles. Then Brad said, I just had to realize that once I started being the man that I should be the roles would come to me. Instead of his usual thinking that the roles would make him the man he wanted to be. Who knows, he seems to have come from a good family. I think for all I thought Angie was a strange bird, at least she threw it out there. She just was who she was and that was that! I didn't have to like her and I don't. But at least she seemed to be honest and true to herself. Brad on the other hand, I think he has some demons, and they are down deep. You can only self medicate, run, or hide for so long. Then it's going to bite you in the butt!!!! I hope for all their sakes, he is able to deal with anything he needs to deal with, go thru the pain that he needs to go thru and comes out better on the other side.