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Is Twilight Ruining Your Marriage?

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (26)



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With the midnight release of Twilight: Eclipse soon arriving (and I can’t wait to sit in a theater, the lone straight male, with 500 shrieking women!), “Twilight addiction” is at a crescendo, which I know because Yahoo Movies wrote about it. But where there’s addiction, there’s always something dark and sinister lying beneath. In this case, there have been cited anecdotal reports that this Twilight addiction has caused a strain in many marriages, as women often neglect their husbands in favor of feeding their Twilight obsession.

“If there is a chemical that’s released when you’re falling in love, your brain has it when you’re reading or watching ‘Twilight.’ You get that utopic feeling of first love and you want to experience it over and over again,” one 50-year-old former engineer who has experienced her own “Twilight”-related marital problems, said.

In light of that damning anecdotal evidence, we thought we’d put together a very simple quiz to determine whether your marriage is in danger of strain because of your Twilight addiction. Answer these simple questions to make the determination:

Women

1. Are you married?

2. Do you know the name of the actor who plays Jasper Hale in the Twilight series?

3. Is your husband’s Intellectual Quotient score higher than 70, or above the level of mental retardation?

If you answered “Yes,” to all of the above questions, then your Twilight addiction is definitely ruining your marriage.

Men

1. Are you married?

2. Have you ever willingly watched a Twilight film in its entirety while sober?

3. Are you straight?

If you answered “Yes,” to all of the above questions, then your Twilight addiction is definitely ruining your marriage. If you answered yes to the first two questions, and no to the final question, your marriage was over a long time ago.









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Comments

"Twilight" isn't ruining marriages. Ignoring your marital problems by focusing on bullshit like "Twilight" is ruining them. Marriage takes work, folks. If you spend most of your time making a life-size 3-dimensional papier mache Edward head to use as a dining room table centerpiece, maybe it's time to put down the balloons and glue and have a conversation with your life partner that doesn't include the words "vampire," "werewolf," or "I wish you were more like . . ."

Posted by: Kballs at June 29, 2010 10:54 AM

I am blissfully ignorant of all the Twilight books and movies, and I plan to keep it that way. Darling hubby hasn't even heard of them. When I mentioned Twilight to him, he said, "What? It's not even noon yet."

Posted by: BWeaves at June 29, 2010 11:03 AM

I sort of hope the fanatic Twilight fans destroy their marriages. 1) It's instant karma. 2) Fewer of them might breed. 3) It frees up their partners to indulge in midlife crisis affairs without any guilt (yeah, I know, some do this anyway, but think of the poor schmoes who have a conscience!) and maybe they'll find an intelligent person to hang out with instead.

Apparently, these women who experience the euphoria of new love (lust) whilst reading a poorly written book have never read some of the better romance novels. Not only is it possible to get that rush, but you can do it over and over, with different heroes each time! Including vampires, werewolves, demons, etc., if that's your thing. Then again, they probably aren't savvy enough to find the Smart Bitches, Trashy Books site for good recommendations, so I'm back to hoping they don't breed - or breed again.

Posted by: Reba at June 29, 2010 11:21 AM

This quiz is sexist. Why is it always the husband who's borderline retarded?

Posted by: admin at June 29, 2010 11:28 AM

1. Yes. Married.
2. Uh, is it. Um, J..uh. Nope. I don't know.
3. Yes, he is a very smart man with a degree in mathematics.

I'm going to the midnight screening of Eclipse tonight. I'm not a mouth breather. I have a kid. A pretty badass little girl is what I have, actually. I'm not obsessed or a fanatic, though Pajibans like to tease me otherwise. As Kballs points out, not working on a marriage ruins a marriage.

I may be a little sick of the Twilight bashing. Maybe. Just a little bit. Human Centipede.

Posted by: Pinky McLadybits at June 29, 2010 11:36 AM

Since it is actually legal in some states for same sex couples to marry, question 3 for men is not entirely accurate. Answering yes to all three would not accurately indicate if Twilight was ruining a gay marriage. The risk Twilight poses for a gay marriage would be if one was a Team Edward fan and the other was a Team Jacob fan. Or, of course, if one of them had a brain and the other liked the books.

Posted by: Morgan Lefai at June 29, 2010 11:39 AM

Thankfully, my wife knows the names of very few actors.

Also: yes; no; yes.

Posted by: Sean at June 29, 2010 11:39 AM

(and I can’t wait to sit in a theater, the lone straight male, with 500 shrieking women!)

Don't forget your trench-coat and pedo shades even though it'll be dark. You might as well go all out.

Posted by: jM at June 29, 2010 11:43 AM

Make sure you wear a Star Wars shirt and bring a lightsaber to the midnight showing when you go review this film, Dustin. You might as well have some fun confusing the emotionally retarded twiletards.

Posted by: Armando at June 29, 2010 11:57 AM

No/No/Not Applicable.

Bam! Take that, Twilight, you insidious piece of filth! Just you try to sully my marriage! It's so clean it's invisible!

Posted by: esme at June 29, 2010 12:05 PM

Ruining your marriage? Don't be an idiot. Twilight might be the best thing that ever happened to your dull, lifeless marriage.

Your wife wants to fuck a vampire and/or warewolf?

Be a vampire. Turn the lights out, lie back/ be aloof, and don't take offense if she moans 'oh Edward'.

She's satisfied, your satisfied. Now fall asleep while she reads. It's not that difficult.

Posted by: Yossarian at June 29, 2010 12:06 PM

Haha, grown women are ruining their marriages because of a poorly written book about teenage vampires. That's fucking pathetic.

Posted by: Steph at June 29, 2010 12:10 PM

Who is Jasper Hale?

Posted by: SB at June 29, 2010 12:58 PM

Question 2 on the men's quiz should include the phrase, "since getting married", for posterity. If a dude saw one of the movies first (say, with a previous girlfriend) and then got married years later, and the spouse didn't like Twilight, how could it ruin their marriage.

Posted by: Shadowen at June 29, 2010 1:04 PM

I'll be standing outside the theater at 2 a.m., waiting for the movie to end and the hordes of pheromonally charged girls/women to come surging out, looking for something, ANYthing to fuck.

Mmmmmmmm ... I'll take you. And you.

Marriage? Oh ... yeah, that.

Posted by: , at June 29, 2010 1:20 PM

See you then , ! I'll save you some M&Ms or something. Help you to entice the kids into your van.

Posted by: Pinky McLadybits at June 29, 2010 1:34 PM

engaged
who??
yes masters in physics!!
I am going to the midnight showing with my sister and I don't give an F who makes fun!

Posted by: blacksred at June 29, 2010 1:47 PM

It's Jackson Rathbone. I only know this because outside of that godawful wig they stuck on him for that movie, he's kinda hot.

Luckily, I'm only pseudo-married... *phew*.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at June 29, 2010 2:04 PM

Here's what it's about:

You are a 37-year old Amercian house-frow.

You once had a career, you were once a cutie,
now you are a stay-at-home with 2 or 3 offspring.

When you were 24, you met this guy and fell in love or whatever, thought he was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

But now, you look at him every morning, he has some belly flab, maybe a hole in his underwear,
he works 12 hours a day to support your ass, he's not all that interesting anymore.

So you find this book about young people (which you are not anymore and will never be again), unencumbered with responsibility, discovering true love, and one of them is a vampire, which is dangerous and sexy.

So your choice:
Go back to your routine life,
or escape into some dreamworld.

It's not unlike the female high school teachers reaching back to their adolescence by having sex with their students.

Posted by: John Reilly at June 29, 2010 2:42 PM

Oh, Pinky, as a firm supporter of matte vampires, I get to bash those who swoon for sparkles. That includes folks who still have Lisa Frank trapper keepers, FYI.

Posted by: Kayanne at June 29, 2010 2:49 PM

I like matte vampires too. Rawr. I start my True Blood Season 2 marathon tomorrow (I accidentally typed that as 'marathong'. Sweet.) I don't swoon for sparkles, though. I don't argue the Teams or whatever. Just my guilty pleasure.

Posted by: Pinky McLadybits at June 29, 2010 5:26 PM

1. Yes. Married
2. Yes, sadly. Hate myself a little bit because of it.
3. Yes, he has a degree in English literature

I won't go see Eclipse at any midnight screening, but mostly because my fellow twi-crazed (we're all cured now - praise Breaking Dawn for making us see sense) friend is off to Peru today, and won't be back for 3 weeks. I can't go see the film without her, I need someone to cackle evilly with.

Posted by: Malin at June 29, 2010 6:07 PM

i have not yet gotten married i took e harmony' test they said if my answer to those qeustion where true then i'm too perfect for any woman on earth.like edward cullen. so far iv'e had three online girlfriends all from russia the first one introduced herself and shared a letter from her mother and father with me, the second one turned out to be the most notorius Con artist in russia the third one was honest with me but i don't where she is right now.

Posted by: Utah Dynamo at June 29, 2010 8:15 PM

@John Reilly - in this economy, it's more likely that SHE would be working 12 hours a day to support HIS ass.

Just sayin'.

Posted by: Three-nineteen at June 29, 2010 8:57 PM

True Story: MrFig and I watched Twilight on one of our first dates. We laughed so hard during the damned thing that I think it cemented our love forever.

But now, 4 years later, he refused to watch New Moon with me.

MY MARRIAGE IS BROKEN! *sob*

(Not really.)

Posted by: figgy at June 29, 2010 11:31 PM

I think that the twimoms arnt ruining their marriages because of jacob or edward. Jacob and Edward are so epic really. Sorry to say but there like the perfect boyfriend or best friend that really doesn’t exist in life. An maybe moms just like to read or watch the love triangle between Edward, Bella and Jacob because it might condor up some feelings from the past like a first love.

Posted by: Lyssa at July 3, 2010 11:07 PM