Ashlee Simpson: It's Over, She's Out, What Happened? While the song says love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage, that doesn't mean it's true. One often follows the other but, in reality, they are two different things. Just because you have love does not mean you have what it takes to maintain a healthy, successful marriage.
I think that's the story with Ashlee Simpson, 26, and her rock star husband Pete Wentz, 31, whom she married in May 2008. In early February, Ashlee, pop singer, actress and sister of Jessica, filed for divorce citing "irreconcilable differences," and asking for spousal and child support. The couple has a two-year-old son named Bronx.
They certainly had their share of issues to deal with including drugs and alcohol, Pete's bi-polar disorder, their mutual jealousy but especially hers, competitive careers of which hers began to decline while his was thriving, and that ever-demanding task of taking care of a young child. In order to deal with those strains, or any others that people encounter every day, there must be a strong foundation - that all important feeling of unity, or the "we" to carry you through. To get there you have to be willing to work together as a team, be able to solve problems and know when and how to compromise so you can stay connected. As I talk about in my book What About Me? Stop Selfishness From Ruining Your Relationship, you have to be willing to support each other's needs and, most importantly, make each other feel like number one.