alex looks like a more chav-ier version of david beckham
jokes aside, they are really ill-suited for one another. Both of them prioritize their own personal goals.
Relationships and marriage are created by 2 people who love and respect each other, and are willing to look for solutions for their problems.
Both of them are hitting the wall when it comes to their marriage: Victoria’s career is on the decline, and Alex doesn’t help out a lot aside from editing her photos.
They should seek couples’ therapy but both of them are too proud to admit their marriage is on the rocks.
new to this thread so maybe I’m rehashing things that have already been said, but I didn’t ever see their marriage going the distance.
I followed Victoria back in her purple hair era, when she wore ASOS and had a cute yellow bedroom. Back then Alex was bald without a steady job. By her own admission, she’s super needy with men. Her parents broke up, her dad started a new family IIRC and she’s spoken in the past about how that impacted her… in other words, serious issues with rejection. She’s also spoken about how she didn’t like being single and has had a boyfriend almost continuously since her teens. She’s been with Alex from about age 20 unless I’m mistaken.
In her earlier era, it felt to me like she’d started dating this rather mediocre man who didn’t match her in looks, ambition, achievements or education - because he was a safe bet. She’d known him a long time and she was so obviously out of his league, she’d never have to worry about the rejection presumably.
because he doesn’t seem to have much of a backbone and coasts along on her coattails, his identity and career have become enmeshed with her. Which is probably how she likes it - he can’t leave her if he’s dependent on her to an extent. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if she dangled the possibility of kids, or manipulated him - because I genuinely think she cannot bear to be alone or single.
for his part, I think Alex is probably aware of the above. And I think he probably resents her for it. I think their dynamic is a toxic blend of manipulating and controlling the other - she’s doing it out of fear of being left, he’s doing it out of resentment. She has maneovered him into being a byproduct of In The Frow and exploits his lack of career/ambition to make him dependent on her. He controls her food, where they live etc. because he knows she’s deathly afraid of being rejected or left.
it’s a toxic mess, so I’m glad there aren’t children involved. They’ve spent 10+ years creating this toxic mess and they are both too stuck in it, and lacking in emotional intelligence, to address it or end the marriage themselves. I can’t see them ever breaking up or divorcing unless one of them gets an “out” and cheats, frankly. It’s the only scenario in which two people as maladaptive as these two feel they can leave relationships.
No different to that and posting in swimwear
But I think Vic has stringent b#dy issues & he likes her small & tiny (remember the food shaming) ..and she LOVES being small & tiny, & knows he does too. And she desperately wants him to like her small body so she works hard on her peloton of cringe-singing-cycling & endless spinning. BUT he deeply resents her for not using said body for small babies. However, she knows if she has babies her body will no longer be small & that would send her into a BIG tail-spin …then she will resent HIM for having to sacrifice her small bodiness!
Just all over the place. 
