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 Abbie Cornish

DON'T SHARE YOUR MARITAL WOES WITH FRIENDS - THEY WILL TALK YOU INTO DIVORCE... AND OTHER TIPS ON SAVING YOUR MARRIAGE FROM RELATIONSHIP COUNSELLOR ANDREW G.MARSHALL

You know who your friends are when you’re going through a relationship crisis. Maybe your husband is coming up to 40 and has started acting strangely; perhaps you’ve caught him texting another woman; or, worst of all, he’s threatening to leave you and break up the family.

Whatever the circumstances, it’s only being able to phone a friend or chat with the girls over a glass of wine that stops you from going round the bend.

However, after almost 30 years working as a marital therapist, I’ve become convinced that, while men don’t have enough friends or emotional support, women can have far too many and too much.

It's not always good to talk: Counsellor Andrew G Marshall has found women often make bad decision based on the advice of friends

In fact, my heart sinks when a new female client tells me her ‘friends have been wonderful’ because time and time again, while she thinks they’ve been helping her save her relationship, they’ve been fanning the flames or even throwing petrol on the fire.

Charlotte, 48, who chairs the board of governors at a school in Kent, sought my help when her husband David, 47, announced out of the blue that he didn’t love her any more, saw no future in their marriage and wanted to rent a flat in the next town, away from her and their three children.

‘You’ll never guess what he’s done now,’ she said as she sat down in my office, in the same tone I imagined her speaking to friends. ‘He’s bought our 12-year-old some trashy heels. He knows I don’t approve and he’d have been the first to complain if I got her a small top or anything else he considered inappropriate, but since we’ve separated, he’ll do anything to curry favour.’

When Charlotte finished cataloguing the ways her husband had let her down, I asked her to reflect on why he might have behaved like this. She became more thoughtful.

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Lady Gaga vomits four times during performance in Spain

The show must go on. During a concert in Barcelona, Spain, on Saturday night, Lady Gaga vomited on stage not once, twice, but at least four times mid-performance … and she just kept on singing and dancing throughout the entire puke fest. The 26-year-old singer was right in the middle of "Edge of Glory" when, with her back to the crowd, she leaned over and hurled onto the stage. In a video posted of her first stomach-churning moment, her backup dancer stopped and put his hand on her shoulder to comfort Gaga, but she went right back into the song's choreography.

Gaga, who reportedly had been battling the flu, had a good sense of humor about it all after the video made the rounds online. "Was praying nobody saw but actually its quite a good laugh if u need one!" she tweeted along with the 27-second clip.

Gaga's vomit-a-thon comes just a week after Justin Bieber also got sick onstage while kicking off the first night of his "Believe" tour. And just like Gaga, he also didn't miss a step — although his voice could still be heard "singing" even though it was clear he was not. The two join a long list of performers who have been struck by nausea during a concert, including Rihanna, Katy Perry, and Kings of Leon singer Caleb Followill, although they all ran off the stage to get sick in private. In 2010, Taylor Momsen was so overcome by heat while performing that the leather-clad singer "almost threw up in the middle of the second song," she told BBC Radio 1. "I was spewing in my mouth and swallowing it back down and I kept turning around and singing."

Luckily for Gaga, she has three weeks off before her next Born This Way Ball gig in Mexico City. Let's hope she stocks up on Pepto Bismol!

Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman split — after 30 years of marriage

One of Hollywood's longest-lasting couples, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman, have separated.
Thirty years after saying "I do," the pint-sized personalities announced through a spokesperson on Monday that they are separating. "Entertainment Tonight" was the first to report the news.
DeVito, 67, and Perlman, 64, met in 1970 when she went to see a friend in an off-Broadway play, "The Shrinking Bride," according to People magazine. After the show Perlman went out to eat with the cast, which included DeVito. Instantly smitten, they moved in together two weeks later, but waited until January 1982 to marry. They have three adult children — Lucy, 29, Grace, 27, and Jacob, almost 25.

In July, DeVito talked about the secret to a long-lasting marriage. "You both have to want the same things," he told The Big Issue. "If you're going to be compadres, friends for ever, you have to be considerate and make many concessions to be able to live together."

Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman in February 2012 (Getty Images)

DeVito, who currently stars in "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," and Perlman, who recently had a recurring role on HBO's "Hung," were on the red carpet together as recently as August when they attended the Los Angeles premiere of "Sleepwalk With Me" with their daughter Lucy.

The couple with their daughter Lucy in August (Getty Images)

Over the weekend Perlman was solo when she attended a reunion dinner in Beverly Hills to celebrate the 30th anniversary of "Cheers." Despite her relationship woes, she was all smiles posing with castmates Ted Danson, Kirstie Alley, and Shelley Long.