Engaged at the drop of a hat

Someone tell me what the heck is going on with the recent spate of celebrities who have gotten engaged within just a few months of being together???

First, and most obviously, there is the psycho Tom Cruise (who I think deserved all the water that got sprayed in his face the other day...his reaction was hilarious. Talk about taking one's self too seriously! He was annoyed because "I work really hard to make people feel good!"....well, Tom, that made me feel reeeaally good, heh.) and Katie Holmes (can never look at Joey in my beloved Dawson's Creek season 3 box set the same way ever again). Six weeks they've been together!!

Secondly, Lleyton and Bec. They were together for like...2 months or something! Although, to be fair, perhaps by that time there was a baby involved...and the fact that they decided to get married is probably admirable, I suppose.

Thirdly, The Poo and his fiancee Alexis Barbara. Weren't together for very long.

Fourthly, Paris Hilton and that other Paris. And Nicole Ritchie and that DJ. What is the deal!?!

Now apparently Holly Brisley (yes, I know she's not exactly A-list) and her fiance (whoever he is) are also engaged after a slightly more respectable 8 months.

I was talking over dinner with my parents last night who reckon that you need to get beyond the 2 year mark before you can really know a person and get a feel for whether you're compatible life partners or not. Hello, 2 months? 3 months?? That's stil the honeymoon period! That's still when my bf couldn't believe that I'd actually capitulated and said yes to going out with him!!

I suppose when you're earning squillions you can afford to splash out a couple of hundred grand on a diamond ring at the drop of a hat and don't have to think as hard whether you actually want to make that sort of investment into another person. Heck, if I was spending a quarter of a million buckaroos on a person, I'd sure as hell want to stay with them for the rest of my life!! (Or at least have them sign an iron-clad contract saying they give back the said quarter of a million buckaroo piece upon the dissolution of the marriage.) Hmmm. All very strange in the rarefied world of celebrity.