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Originally Posted by HarleyQuinn22 
In regards to the Oscar curse, the answer behind it is pretty obvious to me. The guy feels emasculated. What guy's ego could handle walking into a room and essentially disappearing as everyone swarms his more popular, more powerful significant other? How many guys can handle being on a red carpet and being told by paparazzi and reporters, "Get the fuck outta the way! SHE'S who we want to see!" He's feeling insecure and worthless. Now, the movie offers pour in like crazy after the win. She's spending less and less time at home with him, and the resentment starts to build. "Who does she think she is? She's not better than me, I'm better than her!" Now enter the other woman. Looks aren't important here, it's the ego stroke, that rush that comes from someone making him feel important and desired, something that he's not getting from his movie star wife who's halfway around the world on location right now.
I stress the looks factor because, more often than not, these guys cheat with a downgrade in the looks department. The downgrade makes him feel like the more powerful one for once, the better-looking one, the more desirable one. The woman has seen this dude on TV and treats him like he's God while his movie-star wife/girlfriend hardly has time for him anymore.
Is it really that shocking that these relationships don't last? Even if you're married to Halle Berry, if she's never home, your dick's gonna start itching for some action, won't it?
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That's a pretty good theory.
We would like to think, as the peasants that we are, that
we wouldn't let something so superficial (and the Oscar and such attention
is superficial) mess with our psyche in such a way...but, until one is in such a situation, I'm sure it's hard to tell an individual's actual breaking point.
Of course, this goes into how none of us could ever relate to such a world of celebrity to begin with. In a 24/7 fantasy landscape where impossibly gorgeous and powerful people are always in your face (and looking to take your place), it would tax even the most confident and committed of couples, I'm sure.