Please Stop Hoping Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt Get Back Together

That says more about the narrative we have for older, single women than it does about them being the perfect couple

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston loved each other until they stopped loving each other and moved on. This has upset fans perhaps more then the divorce upset Brad and Jennifer themselves, and people have been pathologizing her ever since, even when she FINALLY found love with Justin Theroux. But when that three-year marriage ended, fans were hopeful she and Brad would get back together. When Brad split from Angelina Jolie, it seemed like destiny for some. Nothing was in their way!

And now, a sweet display of affection between them at the Screen Actors Guild Awards has the world in a tizzy. Maybe they actually will get back together! That would make people so happy — even if it doesn’t make Brad and Jen themselves happy.

Both are good natured about the obsession for them getting back together — “It’s hysterical. But what else are they going to talk about? she said. “She’s a good friend,” Brad said, and adding a nod to a potential Friends reunion, “The second most important reunion of her year, I understand.”