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Remember when Ryan Reynolds was married to[br]Scarlett Johansson for a blink of an eye?

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We almost didn't either: they began dating[br]in 2007, tied the knot in 2008, and split

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in December 2010.

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They were both so private and secretive about[br]the whole thing that there's very little photographic

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evidence they were ever together at all.

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So what went wrong?

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Here are some likely reasons why Scarlett[br]and Ryan didn't go the distance.

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Threatened

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In April 2016, Johansson indicated to Cosmopolitan[br]that competition between herself and Reynolds

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may have played a role in their split.

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She told the mag:

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"The logistics of being with another actor[br]are challenging.

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There has to be a real understanding of how[br]you share your time, especially when two people's

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careers are going at the same rate.

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Or even if one person is more successful than[br]the other, that also proves challenging.

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There may be a competitive thing."

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That echoes her sentiments from almost exactly[br]a year earlier, when she hinted to Parade

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magazine in April 2015 that Reynolds' box[br]office bombs may have played a role in their

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divorce.

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She explained:

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"Acting is a very strange world to be co-existing[br]in.

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It's very volatile.

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There's always going to be the more successful[br]person.

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It's related to rejection.

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Because actors, if they're not having success,[br]connect it directly to unpopularity—to the

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fact that nobody wants them."

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She added:

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"[Marriage] takes a lot of work.

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It takes a man who's not only confident in[br]the love that you have for one another, but

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confident in what he has going on in his own[br]career."

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Ouch!

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"Good one!

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Yup, that was a good one."

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Commitment issues

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After their divorce, Johansson hinted that[br]she may not have known how to handle such

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a serious relationship.

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They got together when she was just 23 to[br]Reynolds' 31.

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She explained to Glamour in 2014,

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"I feel I know now more of what I need in[br]a relationship, what I want in a relationship.

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And I know I have more tools to communicate,[br]not just with my partner, but with myself.

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That's not necessarily any reflection of who[br]I was married to or what was happening in

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my marriage, but really where I was in my[br]life."

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"And the more you know who you are, and what[br]you want, the less you let things upset you."

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"Yeah…"

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Personality clash

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An insider told InTouch that Johansson and[br]Reynolds started as a case of opposites attract

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— and that in the end, they realized opposites[br]are actually incompatible.

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"He's more traditional and she's more independent.

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They're both strong-willed and stubborn people.

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There was a lack of warmth between them, that[br]was troubling…He said it sounded like she

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was yelling at him every time she talked to[br]him.

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When Scarlett visited Ryan on the set of The[br]Proposal, she was screaming at him in his

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trailer—going nuts."

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Too private

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There are hardly any photographs of Johansson[br]and Reynolds together at all.

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That seems to be more of Johansson's doing:[br]you never really see her with her significant

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others, not even current husband Romain Dauriac,[br]but you see Ryan Reynolds with Blake Lively

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constantly.

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Scarlett's desire for privacy may not have[br]meshed well with Ryan's need for control,

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according to a source for InTouch magazine:

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"He can be an overbearing control freak.

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When he wanted her there, he expected her[br]to drop everything and come to him.

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She got tired of the double standard."

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Hello, Blake Lively

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When Reynolds filmed Green Lantern, sources[br]told The Daily Mail that he began cozying

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up with co-star Blake Lively…when he was[br]still married to Johansson.

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One witness saw Reynolds and Lively getting[br]close over dinner before he and Johansson

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split.

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"It was just the two of them, and they were[br]laughing and flirting.

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It looked like a date.

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If you didn't know who they were, you would[br]definitely assume they were a couple."

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The Daily Mail reports that Johansson was[br]uncomfortable with how close Reynolds and

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Lively had become on set before any rumors[br]swirled about their off-screen romance, and

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considering that Reynolds and Lively married[br]in 2012, it looks like Johansson's feeling

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that her relationship was doomed might have[br]been right.

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