"Bennifer's marriage is about hope rather than experience - conservatives claim they are forever too"

The highlight of every wedding is when the new couple walk down the aisle together, chained for life.

“Whatever our lives throw at us – cancer, childbirth, poverty, winning the lottery, disability, joy, misery – we will do it together,” he tells the world. It's delightfully optimistic, especially since all of these things increase your chances of divorce, misery, and untimely death. Makes me cry, every time.

All marriages are a case of hope that triumphs over expectation, or at least statistics. But this week, Hollywood super couple Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck took that to the nth degree, who instilled hope in the atmosphere and expect something other than tiny bits of burnt banknotes rain on them.

At least they'll save money on confetti (

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Between them, they had 7 marriages and 5 marriages. He's been to rehab 3 times and is said to have cheated on his wives with the same regularity and enthusiasm as Boris Johnson.

She, meanwhile, has a reputation for picking the wrong ones, marrying them, then starting all over again with a rebound so quick that the lawyer she asks to do her prenups must feel like a rubber band. She married Marc Anthony just 5 months after first splitting from Affleck.

With this scoresheet, either of these two remarrying would require a level of blind faith in his own abilities that he could easily run for Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in beginning of an economic crisis that would collapse any government within 3 months.

Marrying THE OTHER, on the other hand, is...well...let's call it brave.