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Let's stop all the foolish mythology around marriage. If Will and Jada, Star and Al, A-Rod and C-Rod can help us to see what really goes on in marriage, they will have provided an enormous public service. Once upon a time, a celebrity couple that admitted to an "open marriage" might never work in Hollywood again. And back in the quaint old days of yore, a married baseball star might ruin his image if he were "caught" in a strip club. And that's to say nothing of a female celebrity who marries a man who everyone knows thinks is gay. But those ideas are so 1990s. These days, some of the biggest A-list stars seem to be redefining the whole institution of marriage. Or are they simply opening up a window to what marriage really looks like in America? Will and Jada Last week, Hollywood A-lister Will Smith revealed that he and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith have an agreement that they can have sex with other people as long as they inform each other first. "Our perspective is, you don't avoid what's natural," Smith told Britain's Daily Mail. "You're going to be attracted to people. In our marriage vows, we didn't say 'forsaking all others.' The vow that we made was that you will never hear that I did something after the fact." The 36-year-old actor says his 7-year marriage is solid but demonstrates remarkable candor in discussing the rules. "If it came down to it, then one can say to the other, 'Look, I need to have sex with somebody. I'm n ...
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Let's stop all the foolish mythology around marriage. If Will and Jada, Star and Al, A-Rod and C-Rod can help us to see what really goes on in marriage, they will have provided an enormous public service. Once upon a time, a celebrity couple that admitted to an "open marriage" might never work in Hollywood again. And back in the quaint old days of yore, a married baseball star might ruin his image if he were "caught" in a strip club. And that's to say nothing of a female celebrity who marries a man who everyone knows thinks is gay. But those ideas are so 1990s. These days, some of the biggest A-list stars seem to be redefining the whole institution of marriage. Or are they simply opening up a window to what marriage really looks like in America? Will and Jada Last week, Hollywood A-lister Will Smith revealed that he and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith have an agreement that they can have sex with other people as long as they inform each other first. "Our perspective is, you don't avoid what's natural," Smith told Britain's Daily Mail. "You're going to be attracted to people. In our marriage vows, we didn't say 'forsaking all others.' The vow that we made was that you will never hear that I did something after the fact." The 36-year-old actor says his 7-year marriage is solid but demonstrates remarkable candor in discussing the rules. "If it came down to it, then one can say to the other, 'Look, I need to have sex with somebody. I'm n ...