If you were shocked that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner broke up, your optimism is a relic of the days before love was proven to be nothing but a far-off daydream. Bennifer 2.0 was an improvement of the first model, but hardly a perfect machine.
Matching denim award show outfits, multiple co-starring roles, coordinated highlights and even decades of blissful cohabitation still don't add up to forever.
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Celebrities are rich, famous and beautiful, but that can't save them. They're also hopelessly flawed -- just like us! These 12 couples that fizzled out will remind you of all the times you've lost faith in love over the years... only to foolishly let it back into your life.
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