Which isn't to say we don't have our own inspirational moments that led to career switches, broken engagements, even escapes from New York.
She was repeatedly romantically linked to her co-stars, including Ashton Kutcher from "Just Married," and a string of broken engagements made her tabloid fodder.
While urban developments are being fought, happily married Catherine Middleton tries to unravel the tangled love affairs and broken engagements that connect her friends.
And the service has no figures on how many people returned after being dumped, or how many suffered from divorces or broken engagements.
Most people here know her through her raunchy career in reality television, or the scandalous liaisons and broken engagements that make up the basic molecular structure of Russia's tabloid culture.
In interviews, women who were subjects of the Connecticut study echoed theories about new self-reliance and greater stress, even as they described more complicated reasons for broken engagements and failed relationships.
But despite the break-ups, broken engagements, scandals and divorces that seem to characterize this group, some famous couples still make it work.
Their lives may be a chaotic landscape of job losses, interrupted educational pursuits, broken engagements, hospitalizations.
At www.letitia.com, Letitia Baldrige, who has published 18 books on manners and entertaining, offers some tips on what to do if your boss has spinach in his teeth, and how to handle a broken engagement.
When she talks about being a survivor, she knows what she's talking about; she's not some little fraud who's had one broken engagement and two broken fingernails, and thinks it's the end of the world.
