Sean Penn & Robin Wright: Paradise Lost

If you’re searching for a paradigm of marital stability, you probably shouldn’t look to Robin Wright and Sean Penn. The couple’s been together since 1989, married since 1996, and has two almost-adult kids to boot… but that’s where the fairy tale stops.

Since 2007, they’ve dipped their toes in divorce enough times that even Elizabeth Taylor is all, “Whoa. That’s a lot of divorce.” Apparently, the third time did the trick; Robin and Sean are now legally rid of each other, and everyone can officially go back to their daily routines.

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The question is: what happened? If you look back to the early ’90s, these two were sickeningly in love, and even though their relationship always leaned towards the dramatic side, they seemed to be in it to win it. What gives? Just like you, Moonit’s ready to find out what went wrong.

According to their birth date analysis, the romance between Sean (born on August 17, 1960) and Robin (born on April 8, 1966) started off with “two tickets to paradise.” Their relationship once “closely resembled a buffet of awesomeness,” and these two initially “fed each other’s tendency to indulge in the finer things in life.” Sean and Robin “felt totally connected,” and were really on the same page.

That’s a pretty rosy outlook, no? Not exactly. Their friendship potential reveals something else lurking beneath the kissy-huggy-ness of it all. On a long-term relationship level, these two “always keep things interesting, especially for those of us on the sidelines.” We “never, ever want to get in the middle of their constant bickering, but since they treat every minor disagreement like a no-holds-barred prizefight,” their friends always “get an evening of free entertainment.”

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We’re amazed that Sean and Robin “can always find something to argue about, but no matter the topic, these two manage to fight con gusto.” It’s all in good fun when the tiffs lead to stimulating conversations, but “when it comes to the petty stuff, they’ve got to learn to pick their battles.” If they start “basing their latest cage match on trivialities like ‘who said what when’ or ‘who owes what to whom,’ both of them lose.” Yeah. It looks like they found that out the hard way.