In what would definitely qualify as the most shocking news of the day, uber-cutie actress Reese Witherspoon and hunky husband Ryan Phillippe announced through their publicists that they were planning to separate after seven years of marriage.

Both have been publicly effusive in the past about their affections for each other, so the news that they’re splitting is quite a surprise. They say that no one thing caused the rift, but rather an accumulation over time. Like I tell my friends all the time: it’s rarely something big that ends relationships, it’s all the little stuff that builds up and never gets resolved.

We’re sad to see what was an apparent Hollywood relationship success story end badly for both Witherspoon and Phillippe. It may go without saying, but I’m going to say it anyway, and I hope that they remember throughout the divorce proceedings that there are two little ones (7-year-old Ava and 3-year-old Deacon) involved and that they try to resolve things as amicably as possible a la Bruce Willis and Demi Moore.

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