By Nic Baird

For her first Christmas since Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ divorce, Suri split the holidays between both parents, People reports. Suri spent Christmas Day with her mother in Ohio, and then joined Cruise and his two older children, according to a source. “We have got lots of very special things planned,” Cruise said at the premiere of his  new film Jack Reacher. He mentioned he was looking forward to spending the holidays with his kids. “We are all going to be together,” he said.

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By Michelle Rebecca

When you and your partner have a fight, do you blog, Tweet, change your status on Facebook and call all of your friends to let them know about it? If so, you might be endangering your relationship by sharing too much information with others.

As many celebrities (e.g., Kim Kardashian, Tom Cruise, Madonna) have discovered, it’s hard to nurture the tender bud of a healthy romance in the harsh glare of the public eye.

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By Jennifer Ross

With all her professional successes and a gorgeous family, Nicole Kidman is grateful for what she has. However, her life has not always been grand. In a recent interview with DuJour, Kidman speaks of the highs and lows in her life, including her painful divorce from former husband Tom Cruise. When discussing her love for Cruise, the star of upcoming movie Grace of Monaco said, “I was reeling with Tom. I would have gone to the ends of the earth for him.” At 23 years-old, she had married Cruise in 1990. Just a few months after their 10^th wedding anniversary, Cruise delivered a major blow to her when he decided to separate. “It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system,” the mother of four confessed. Over time, Kidman, 45, healed from her divorce and eventually found love again in current husband Keith Urban. “I’m happier than I’ve ever been in my life… My family is with me.”

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By Jessica Nappi

We’ve all gone through our own break-ups, and no matter how painful they can be, sometimes, seeing celebrities break-up is even worse. These splits involve not only the two in the celebrity relationship but also their entire fan base. Break-ups in Hollywood mean more than just broken hearts; they also mean no longer seeing them pose together on the red carpet, waving goodbye to those PDA-filled paparazzi shots, and saying sayonara to those lengthy interviews where they gush about how much in love they are. Here are three celebrity break-ups that had us crying:

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By Jennifer Ross

Although Tom Cruise has moved on from his divorce to ex Katie Holmes, he deeply misses Suri. With his new role in the upcoming action film All You Need is Kill, Cruise has been based in London since August for pre-productions, which has made it virtually impossible to see his 6-year-old daughter. As reported by a friend to People, Cruise, 50, has said, “I’ve got to see her.” Adding to that difficulty is Suri’s permanent relocation in New York City, where she began first grade at the private Avenue’s School in Chelsea. However dim, all is not lost. The first grader is still able to have a relationship with her father, via phone, several times per day.

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By Nancy Parker

If you speak to any number of parents today about how parenting has affected their marriage, you may be surprised to hear many tell you that it has solidified their marriage. They will almost certainly tell you that parenting is hard work and incredibly stressful, but at the same time, they will tell you that they feel closer to their spouse after having kids than before. This may seem paradoxical. After all, enduring intensely stressful situations and bringing responsibility and hard work into your relationship seems like it may pull a couple apart. In many cases, however, the opposite is true. There are a number of key reasons why raising a child can solidify your marriage despite being stressful:

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By Nicole Weintraub

Ever since Katie Holmes filed for divorce from her former beau Tom Cruise, their six-year-old daughter has been acting out, according to UsMagazine.com.  Ever since the power couple decided to call it quits, Holmes has been toning down her lavish lifestyle and is trying to spoil her daughter, Suri, a little less. Cruise has been known to spoil his little girl to pieces, for example, spending over $6,000 on their recent helicopter excursion to The Hamptons. Holmes, though, is taking a different parenting route by enrolling her daughter in an elementary school that calls for a strict dress code. The young Cruise is not too happy about the recent changes, though. According to Holmes, she still needs time to adjust.

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By Sarah Ribeiro

While Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise may have had a rocky marriage, Holmes still kept a close bond with her family. A source has reported that Holmes visited Ohio “many times” while married to Cruise, according to People. The pair announced their split early last month.

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Even though all of the hype over Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ divorce has made it seem messy, the two have remained civil for Suri’s sake. A source told People that the two have worked out a “civil routine” and “are talking.” Regardless of the ex couple’s differences, they still have to do what’s best for their six-year old. Suri has spent most of the summer in New York City with Holmes, and has taken various trips with Cruise. Now with the  approaching the school year, Holmes has decided to enroll Suri in a private school nearby, and Cruise was okay with her decision.

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By Audrey Melnik

Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise have been the center of a media circus since they announced their divorce. A number of rumors have surfaced about why their marriage ended, but no matter what the true causes were, it’s clear that Holmes is doing what she thinks is best for her daughter, even if that means ending her marriage. Going through a divorce isn’t easy and it always takes time to recover, but it should never be avoided when you think a split is important for you and your family. Thankfully, being single allows you to focus on what makes you a better person. Here are some great ways Holmes, and other singles, can enjoy their independence:

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There couldn’t have been a divorce between Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes without some drama over their daughter Suri. Does Holmes hate Cruise so much that she plans to change their daughter’s name after the divorce? British magazine Now Daily printed a story in which a close friend of the family claimed Holmes planned to change Suri’s last name to “Holmes.” The source also mentioned that Holmes hates the name “Suri” and has been referring to her daughter as “Scout.” Although this information is unclear, it still has been making things harder for a couple still in the middle of a difficult divorce.

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By Jane Greer, Ph.D. for GalTime

Why has it been so surprising to us that Katie Holmes filed for divorce last week in an effort to end her marriage to Tom Cruise when so many of us had a hard time taking their union seriously in the first place?

Maybe it’s because despite the public’s initial cynicism, people eventually embraced the couple as an example of a true Hollywood love story.

According to the papers, Tom was as blindsided as we were by the news, but, unlike the couple’s fans who watched from a distance, he was close to the action. How is it possible that he was chugging along, seemingly happy, when she was evidently so unhappy that she secretly planned her exit?

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As Tom Cruise’s third marriage comes to an end, Katie Holmes surprisingly reached out to ex-wife number two, Nicole Kidman, for advice and guidance in her effort to divorce Cruise, sources told Us Weekly. It’s not extremely common to become friends with your partner’s ex, but in Holmes’s case, the 45-year-old Kidman, “has been supportive, saying she’s been through it too and to hang in there.” The Dawson’s Creek star apparently even contacted Kidman via a disposable cell phone in order to keep Cruise from catching on. The ladies’ relationship is what really gave Holmes the edge she needed against her ex-husband, because she ultimately gained everything she hoped for in their rapid one-week settlement.

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It’s all work and no play for Tom Cruise following his Monday morning divorce settlement. He has been continuing to film his new movie Oblivion. However, he isn’t on location in Iceland any longer, as he was when the paparazzi first snapped pictures of him after news broke of Katie Holmes’ divorce file.  Now the superstar is in California’s High Sierras, where the sci-fi flick will film for another week. Cruise can go back to work so quickly because the divorce settlement was reached after mere days. People reports that Holmes’ lawyers simply said, “The case has been settled and the agreement has been signed.”

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By Whitney Baker

Earlier this week, Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise signed their divorce settlement, reaching an agreement faster than most Hollywood couples. While details of the arrangement remain private, sources say that Suri, the couple’s six-year-old daughter, will live in New York with her mother, while her father will have generous visitation rights.

In order to better understand the ins-and-outs of this process, we spoke with Judge Lynn Toler, who hosts ‘Divorce Court,’ the longest-running court show on television. Since 2006, Judge Toler has brought both tenacity and compassion to the courtroom, focusing on the relationship at hand and dispensing helpful advice to real litigants. …On the edge of your seat? Click here to continue.

Katie Holmes is taking no time after her split from Tom Cruise to get back to her career. Holmes, who filed for divorce from Cruise last week, is set to work on a new film, Molly, about a single mother and her daughter, according to People. Holmes co-wrote and is co-producing the film, which will be filming in New York City, where Holmes lives with her daughter Suri.

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Since Katie Holmes filed for divorce from her husband of five years, Tom Cruise, the award-winning actor and father to their daughter Suri, is in “major crisis mode,” according to UsMagazine.com. Sources say that “Tom’s whole life is being torn apart,” which was something he never saw coming. While Cruise is constantly consulting with lawyers in an effort to deal with custody of the six-year-old and division of their properties, he tries to remain as private as possible because he “doesn’t want his entire life laid out for everyone to dissect anymore.”

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Katie Holmes is making her divorce from Tom Cruise public by removing her wedding ring. According to People, the Hollywood Star was taping a segment for Project Runway: All Stars this week without it.  A source says that although she appears to be handling the situation well, she has left Cruise “devastated and heartbroken.” The two had been married for five years and apparently Cruise “had no idea this was coming.”

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After news of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ divorce broke, there may have been subtle clues that their split was fast-approaching. UsMagazine.com reports that in an interview Holmes conducted six weeks prior to the divorce file, she did not speak of Cruise in a lovey-dovey manner. When questioned about the stigma of being “Mrs. Tom Cruise,” she defensively said “he has been Tom Cruise for 30 years. I know who I am and where I am and where I want to go, so I want to focus on that.” She also denied the rumor that having married an A-lister helped her acting career. Holmes sounded independent throughout the interview and noticeably stated that she’s entering “a new phase” of her life, a phase that we now know will include much less of Tom Cruise.

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Now that Katie Holmes has filed for divorce from Tom Cruise, she is taking matters into her own hands after breaking free from what sources say was a ‘Scientology-influenced marriage’ to the actor. The Kennedys star is now pursuing sole legal custody of their 6-year old daughter, Suri Cruise. An insider tells UsMagazine.com, “This is about protecting her daughter. She wants to be in charge of how Suri is being raised and didn’t want her to have an exclusively Scientology education.” With that said, the divorce of TomKat is just beginning to unfold.

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By Whitney Baker

As a relationship expert and executive matchmaker for the past seven years, Amy Laurent has plenty of advice when it comes to navigating the dating world. And, now she’s putting it out there publicly starring on Bravo’s new reality series ‘Miss Advised,’ a show that features three single relationship experts as they attempt to follow their own dating advice in the search for love.

Given Laurent’s background, we thought she’d be the perfect source to comment on the most talked about divorce of the week (and most likely the year), the infamous TomKat split.  By now, we’ve all read the tabloids or heard the news that Tom’s obsession with Scientology was a huge factor in their divorce (source), but how important is religion to a marriage?

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The survival of  TomKat just may prove to be “mission impossible” for Tom Cruise after learning Katie Holmes filed for divorce on Thursday. Despite their never-ending rumors of a split, the soon-to-be separation of the couple is a shock to Hollywood, especially after the actor told People just days ago that his perfect day is “the time with Kate.” The actor confirmed through his rep that it was indeed his wife who filed the papers, just five days before his 50th, and asked for privacy during this time. The end of TomKat marks divorce number three for Cruise.

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Earlier this week, Katie Holmes filed for divorce from Tom Cruise, a shocking split that neither Cruise nor observers saw coming. As a source told UsMagazine.com, the two seemed very happy just two weeks ago during a dinner together in Iceland. Though the terms of the divorce have not been settled, Holmes is seeking sole custody of their daughter, Suri. Two days after the divorce was filed, Cruise was spotted for the first time since the two split. He was flying in a helicopter away from Iceland. His destination is unknown, and he did not seem eager to appear to the paparazzi.

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By Samantha Mucha

Finding the right person is a thrilling experience, but keeping your hands off of one another in public is often a challenge. A new relationship is filled with flirty kisses, not-so-secretive butt grabs and romantic handholding.

In some cases, a little PDA is cute and picture worthy. Finding the balance between over-the-top scandalous make-out sessions and a cute peck on the cheek is the key to being a favorite couple versus a hated couple. These celebrity couples are all successful at acting like a couple in the spotlight without going overboard with their PDA:

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