Inside Angelina Jolie’s Decision: Divorce ‘Is Not Something You Do Impulsively’

People Magazine wrote: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: the reasons behind the split

(PEOPLE Staff) 13 hours ago

After 12 years and six kids together, Angelina Jolie files for divorce from Brad Pitt just after their two-year wedding anniversary. Subscribe now for the real story behind the split, only in PEOPLE.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt may have had the ultimate Hollywood romance from the outside, but behind closed doors, their marriage was slowly coming apart.

After months of mounting tensions between the two, Jolie, 41, told Pitt she wanted a divorce, an end to their two-year marriage and 12-year relationship.

“Things built and built over time – it wasn’t any one thing,” a source close to the actress tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story, on newsstands Friday. “She’s loved this man for several years, and [divorce] is not something you do impulsively.” Meanwhile, a Pitt source tells PEOPLE: “There was clearly a breaking point, where she’d just had enough,” says the Pitt source. “He may have been broken himself and said he couldn’t go on, and she reacted. This has been difficult for a while.” In the cover story, sources detail how Jolie told Pitt she wanted a divorce, why he “begged” her to wait and how their relationship began to crumble after their 2014 wedding. They faced increasing differences over parenting styles (with Brad taking a “stricter approach versus Angelina’s “more relaxed attitude,” according to another insider), the direction of their careers and more. For more details inside Jolie and Pitt’s decision to end their marriage, pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday

A Pitt source says Jolie told Pitt she was moving forward with the divorce just two days before she filed papers in an L.A. court on September 19 – and Pitt was “wrecked.”

“He was appealing to her to do this quietly – not to save the marriage but to consider the well-being of the children – and it was ignored,” says the Pitt source. But Jolie – who said in a statement the decision was “for the health of her family” – did “what she needed to do,” says a source close to her. For more on the divorce, watch People Cover Story: Brad & Angelina on the new People/Entertainment Weekly Network (PEN). Go to people.com/PEN or download the free app on your Smart TV, mobile and Web devices.

Still, both sides say Pitt and Jolie still love each other and expect them to find a way to “move forward in a dignified way,” as a Pitt source puts it. Says a Jolie source: “They have six kids together and are always going to be in each other’s lives.”

Jules wrote:It's a decidedly odd reason for divorce. As he aquired her hubby through stealing him from his wife, she's reluctant to admit that what goes around comes around.


This news has eclipsed a similar story. Crocodile dundee  Paul Hogan callously dumped his wife and FIVE kids for a far younger woman.

23 years later she has dumped him. Hogan is of an age where he'd struggle to raise a smile nemmind owt else. Wifey wants a virile young studmuffin.

What goes around ......

eddie wrote:Actually the rumours are, that he's been flirting with another actress on his new film set.
My guess is, this is the sort of thing that would make a woman not want her husband, not the parent thing.

eddie wrote:Actually the rumours are, that he's been flirting with another actress on his new film set.
My guess is, this is the sort of thing that would make a woman not want her husband, not the parent thing.

Syl wrote:

Jules wrote:It's a decidedly odd reason for divorce. As he aquired her hubby through stealing him from his wife, she's reluctant to admit that what goes around comes around.


This news has eclipsed a similar story. Crocodile dundee  Paul Hogan callously dumped his wife and FIVE kids for a far younger woman.

23 years later she has dumped him. Hogan is of an age where he'd struggle to raise a smile nemmind owt else. Wifey wants a virile young studmuffin.

What goes around ......

Jules, are you seriously suggesting that a man can be "stolen" from his wife?
He decided to shag around whilst married....no one can make someone be unfaithful....they do that all by themselves.

Syl wrote:What is obvious is a lot of women (mostly) blamed Jolie for his marriage breakup to American sweatheart Jennifer Anniston. (just as you did in a previous post....stolen indeed )

Reminiscent (for us oldies) of the way Liz Taylor was blamed for the fact that Eddie Fisher couldn't keep it in his pants either and broke Debbie Reynolds heart.

Odd how truly beautiful women are so powerful they can tempt even the most faithful of husbands away from their sweet wives at home....and the men get no blame whatsoever.

Syl wrote:What is obvious is a lot of women (mostly) blamed Jolie for his marriage breakup to American sweatheart Jennifer Anniston. (just as you did in a previous post....stolen indeed )

Reminiscent (for us oldies) of the way Liz Taylor was blamed for the fact that Eddie Fisher couldn't keep it in his pants either and broke Debbie Reynolds heart.

Odd how truly beautiful women are so powerful they can tempt even the most faithful of husbands away from their sweet wives at home....and the men get no blame whatsoever.

HoratioTarr wrote:

Syl wrote:What is obvious is a lot of women (mostly) blamed Jolie for his marriage breakup to American sweatheart Jennifer Anniston. (just as you did in a previous post....stolen indeed )

Reminiscent (for us oldies) of the way Liz Taylor was blamed for the fact that Eddie Fisher couldn't keep it in his pants either and broke Debbie Reynolds heart.

Odd how truly beautiful women are so powerful they can tempt even the most faithful of husbands away from their sweet wives at home....and the men get no blame whatsoever.

I don't blame her solely.  He's just as complicit.   Many an idiot has been led by the dick.   But then again, one has to ask just how 'solid' his relationship was with Aniston?   Clearly, it wasn't that strong. So, logically, sooner or later, it would have broken down.

Tommy Monk wrote:

Maybe she's back on the heroin...

eddie wrote:I have had quite a few occasions where women's husbands have come on to me, right under their wive's noses.  I always wonder what sort of women would find a scuzzbucket like that, attractive enough to say yes to?

Syl wrote:

eddie wrote:I have had quite a few occasions where women's husbands have come on to me, right under their wive's noses.  I always wonder what sort of women would find a scuzzbucket like that, attractive enough to say yes to?

Lowlives Eddie. They hope they may get lucky, and bank on the fact if they don't you wont say anything.