Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012)

This is largely a light-hearted romantic comedy/drama, but there is one kernel of truth that I think is worth noting.

Celeste and Jesse are the stereotypical couple who find that their friendship is solid, even when their marriage is on the rocks. So they decide that the best thing to do is to split up.

This is where the split began.  Celeste is the money maker and Jesse is the artist.  Celeste thinks that Jess should work harder, and cannot imagine herself parenting children with someone who has his work ethic.  So they fight.  We movie goers miss the bulk of it, but apparently it was bad.  So she stays in their house, and he movies into their backyard to live in his studio.

The problem is that they really are very compatible with each other, and they spend all their non-working time together.  It comes to a head one night when mutual friends point out that it is not natural--and what will they do when they start to date other people?  Good question.   Once someone asks it, Jesse decides that he really does need to get out more, and that is the beginning of the spiral that leads far too late to each of them learning that perhaps a little marital therapy would have gone a long way towards happiness for each of them.  Don't let this happen to you, that is all I can say.