So now that you're back (!!!), I really need your thoughts about when Blake and Gwen's actual anniversary is, like we've obviously passed it this summer, but do you have any new thoughts about when/how they got together since your last science posts? #thesignsthesignsthesigns
Ohhh I’m so excited for this ask!! I don’t have any NEW thoughts per se, but I feel like she/they reinforced my existing theory.
I have always said I think July 7 is their anniversary…the date when they had their unexpected, never in their wildest dreams (lol i think they dreamt about it plenty but anyway…), colorado hit & everything changed moment.
The reasons:
1. In Harper’s Bazaar (i think) the article quotes her as saying July 7, and says she’s talking about when she found out about Blake’s divorce. However, it doesn’t explicitly quote her saying “I found out about the divorce on July 7.” it just gives the date.
This answer has never made any sense. Filming took place June 29-30 & July 7-8. He filed for divorce on July 6. Blake’s version of the story says he told everyone before the season started, so that they wouldn’t make things awkward by mentioning ML. He knew well in advance that everything would be finalized by the time the season aired, there’s no reason for him to have waited until after he filed, when he was hoping to avoid weirdness.
In my opinion, it makes a lot more sense that she threw out July 7 because it was a date at the front of her mind, and the interviewer took it as an answer to ‘when did you learn about blake’s divorce?’…she has done this on other occasions like when she implied she wrote MMLY in January even though she wrote it in September. Sneaky bunny.
2. Also, the Timing. So they found out about each other’s situations in late June. Fast forward and Gwen was listening to the demo of Splash on her vacation in Montana, which ended on July 27. And she also wrote Obsessed in there at some point, before Splash.But keep in mind Blake didn’t live in LA so there were limited days he was there in person. Sooo to me it makes sense they had a week of super intense emails and phone calls, and then he got back from the 4th of july break and they hung out again in person and that was it. And that leaves the rest of that week for Obsessing and a couple more weeks of even more intense talking, this time with a more-than-friends vibe, to get her ready for Splash. That’s always been the calendar I’ve imagined.
Flash forward 2 years and we have July 7, 2017:
July 7, 2017 is the *first* time she ever posted a pic of Blake and one of the kids on a permanent SM site (rather than a snap/story that disappears in 24 hours).
The night before was when they took Todd & Jen with them to Blake’s show for like a double date.
And then also on July 7 she changed her icon to this cuteness
So this is obviously just a theory and could be coincidence, but the apollo pic really convinced me that this date is their anniversary. 💖