No, Machine Gun Kelly, Love Doesn’t ‘Hurt’

Even if you aren’t interested in MGK and Megan Fox, you need to be interested in how commonplace his behavior is

Sarah McManus MSc
Fearless She Wrote

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In Stephen King’s Gerald’s Game, when a sex game goes wrong between a married couple and the abusive husband drops dead, his wife is forced to practically de-glove her own hands to get out of the handcuffs in which she’s left trapped. Anyone who has read the book, or watched Mike Flanagan’s brilliant adaptation, will recognize that the way Gerald treats his wife is unacceptable, unhealthy, and certainly not love. Had he not suffered a fatal heart attack, his wife would have died at his hands sooner or later.

It is this novel, and in particular it's ending, that immediately came to mind when I read the headline this morning about the engagement ring Machine Gun Kelly (real name Colson Baker) gifted to Megan Fox:

Machine Gun Kelly designed Megan Fox’s engagement ring to hurt coming off — CNN

“Love is pain!”

If you haven’t heard about it already following their joint interview with Vogue, MGK designed a ring that is outwardly beautiful — two rings connected by a magnet, their respective birth-stones in each one — however MGK…

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Sarah McManus MSc
Fearless She Wrote

Sarah is a UK-based writer with an MSc in Psychology. She writes about mental health & Neurodiversity. She is also the Owner and Editor of The Blade & Beyond.