Remember the old days when you dated, got engaged, and then picked a date for wedding. The wedding was a big party with friends and family members and then you took off on a honeymoon to a tropical paradise. You waited a few years of wedded bliss and then you would start a family.

Things are different now. Indeed, you start off by dating but after that nothing is standard. You could have a family, live together before marriage, and then have a wedding. Or have a family and never get married as Brangelina have done. Looks as if Nicole Richie and Joel Madden are going to do the same.

"We don't have any plans for that right now," Madden told People magazine. "We're just happy, and we're being a family, and that's where we're at right now. But marriage means something different to everyone."

I think marriage is basically becoming an outdated concept with all the complications related to a 50% probability of divorce, child support issues, and ugly custody battles.

As if it was not ugly enough, the divorce of Christine Brinkley and Peter Cook gets even uglier. Like that Republican darling Craig Schelske, apparently Peter Cook too is obsessed with swinging and finding women on the Internet. No wonder then that Diana Bianchi was just one of his secret lovers.

It is clear that Brinkley is furious with her ex-husband that she wants to publicly humiliate him and destroy his social standing. I am not sure if Craig Schelske has been hurt in any way or that the Republican Party will really shun him. Nothing may happen to Cook either and he might go on being a good swinger. In my opinion, regardless of what the father of your children did, such bitterness does no good. At the end of the day, you still want your children to have a healthy relationship with their father.

Ryan Philippe dating Abbie Cornish

Could there have been a cuter couple than Ryan Philippe and Reese Witherspoon? With their lovely children, they just seemed like the great American family that we so much aspire to have. Unfortunately, Hollywood relationships are always shaky considering that stars are always tempted by yet another hotter person.

That is what we all thought happened when Ryan and Reese divorced? It was all blamed on Abbie Cornish but she denied that it was her fault. I had no reason to doubt Abbie but it seems I was so wrong. Ryan and Abbie are now officially together and it is more than clear that she was the main reason why Reese's marriage fell apart.