Couple’s counseling is incredibly popular these days. Many people enjoy having a third party there to offer advice, listen to their problems and help with mediating any conflicts that may arise. Celebrities are no different. Like non-famous couples, they sometimes need help navigating the intricacies of relationships. We decided to find out which celebrity couples have tried couple’s counseling and see if it actually helped to save the relationship. We have 7 couples on our list and the results aren’t too surprising. While some of these couple managed to patch things up, many of them didn’t and ended up breaking up.
7. Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes
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6. Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon
Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon got together when they were really young and they made it work for about a decade. Before finally calling it quits on their marriage, these two had tried couple’s counseling. Witherspoon didn’t look at getting therapy as a bad thing. “In what capacity is working on yourself or your marriage a bad thing?” she told Oprah Winfrey. “What marriage isn’t a journey? Nobody’s perfect. We all have our own set of problems.”
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5. Hilary Duff and Mike Comrie
Hilary Duff and her estranged husband Mike Comrie reportedly spent 18 months in couple’s therapy before they finally decided to call it quits. Rumor has that she didn’t feel that he was putting enough into the relationship and that he wasn’t doing any of the stuff that they worked on in counseling. It looks like things started to go wrong when Comrie was injured in 2012 and was forced to retire from hockey for good. Him being home a lot and not doing anything really strained the relationship.
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4. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver turned to couple’s counseling to help save their marriage. It was during one of these appointments that she confronted him about fathering a child with the family’s housekeeper. After Schwarzenegger confirmed that it was true, Shriver decided to end the marriage. She filed for divorce and had a private investigator look into his financial history and personal life. Shriver was interested in knowing if they were any more love children!
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3. Jay Z and Beyonce
This power couple is reportedly on the rocks and rumor has it that they have hired marriage counselors to travel with them on their “On The Run” tour. Others have suggested that they are receiving counseling with a therapist via Skype. Some sources say that Jay Z and Beyonce are trying to stay together for the sake of their daughter Blue Ivy while others allege that the couple is using counseling to find a way to split without divorcing.
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2. Gavin Rossdale and Gwen Stefani
Gavin Rossdale and Gwen Stefani have used couples counseling in the past to strengthen their relationship. They were spotted leaving Dr. Adrien Survol Rivin’s office a couple years ago, sparking rumors that something might be wrong in their relationship. However, it looks like any difficulties were overcome as they are still together, going strong. The couple welcomed their third son, Appollo, into the world this past February.
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1. Courteney Cox and David Arquette
Even before they were married, Courteney Cox and David Arquette were in couple’s counseling. Throughout their marriage and even after they had separated, they continued with therapy. “I get shocked by people getting divorced all the time; that’s why I choose to work on it,” Courteney has said. “Therapy helps us.” Apparently it wasn’t enough. In 2012, Arquette filed for divorce after he and Cox had been separated for nearly two years.