Did Madonna’s Marriage-Contract Fridge-Art Push Guy Ritchie To The Brink?

We thought every marriage had a graphically worded pact to spell out its sexual and emotional tenets, but apparently our families are in the minority with Madonna and Guy Ritchie. The authorities at The Sun today make quite a bit of the busted-up duo’s “marriage contract,” a list reportedly pinned around their residences lest Guy ever forget his responsibilities in the relationship — and putting down the toilet seat was the least of them.

Beyond joining Madonna for regular Kabbalah studies, working “to enrich his wife’s emotional [...] well-being,” and agreeing to resolve conflicts with the easy-to-remember surrender edict, “I understand that my actions have upset you, please work with me to resolve this,” Ritchie is said to have faced even more formidable terms in the bedroom:

The marriage rules said both parties must “devote time to our sexual expressiveness” and “not use sex as a stick to beat one another.”

Sources said Madonna pinned the contract up in their New York home after they saw marriage counselors two years ago, and would say to her husband, “Contract, Guy, contract” if he broke the rules.

To each their own, of course, but “Contract, Guy, contract”? Worst. Safe word. Ever.

• http://www.link.com“>Marriage ‘contract’ controlled Guy’s life [The Sun]