Who hasn't been a fool for love at least once in their life? You know, when you find that special someone you think you can't live without, and anything remotely resembling sanity flees your infatuated mind. You lie awake at night thinking of the person, agonizing over them; you fly into jealous rages whenever you think they might have eyes for someone else. You carve their initials into your forearm. You put their number on speed-dial, and call them over and over, until they're finally forced to get an unlisted number. But you can't take a hint, can you? No. You start following them back and forth from work, and when they go out, and when night falls you stand on the street staring up at the shadows moving around behind their window-shades. Then one day they catch you, and get a restraining order slapped on you. And still you don't learn your lesson. So you lop off your little finger and mail it to them. That'll get their attention...
I think we've all been there, haven't we? Yes. And what makes it even better is when two people feel that way about each other. The French have a marvelous term for this: folie a deux - "madness for two." I think that phrase just about sums up the situation for rapper Marshall Mathers aka Eminem and his ex-wife Kim, who despite having married and divorced twice already are reportedly engaged yet again.
The news comes to us via rapper Akon. "Eminem still loves Kim," says Mr. Akon. "They have one of those relationships where they are off one minute and back together the next. He can't live with her, and he can't live without her. But they are meant for each other. They are engaged again."
They are meant for each other - never were truer words spoken, Mr. Akon. And, surely, this time the marriage will stick. Whatever differences these two have, their love is obviously true - truly insane. So, one way or another, I believe they will spend the rest of their lives together. Of course, the rest of their lives could end up being about two weeks - you know, long enough for them to get their affairs squared away before they carry out the suicide pact. The one thing I don't see happening is this couple breaking up for good. All right, so maybe they get married again, and divorced about three months later. Does that mean they're going to be apart forever? Obviously not. Because, for some reason, these two people just can't get over each other. No matter how much they fight and bicker and threaten to kill each other, when they look into each other's eyes, they just can't help feeling the same way they've always felt - completely and irrationally fixated on the idea that the other person is secretly screwing around. And that kind of lunatic jealousy is a bond no one can break.
Update: A rep for Marshall Mathers says he is not in fact engaged to Kim yet again. Sure you're not Marshall.
