Let’s go back a few years to your childhood. You’re in Toys “R” Us walking down the aisle looking at all the dolls on the shelves. Your eyes light up at all the different types of dolls and accessories until your eyes finally stop on what you think is the most exquisite doll you have ever seen. You pick her up and run through the store until you reach your parent, where you then proceed to beg for the doll. As your parent checks out and drives you home you stare and wonder at your new Malibu Barbie.

Little girls have been playing make believe with their Barbie dolls and going on adventures for 45 years. Barbie is one of America’s most popular dolls for young girls; she has been in most households since she was created in the 1960s. Though now instead of just Barbie there are a bunch of other dolls that are friends or siblings of this famous doll. The one that stands out most in our minds is Barbie’s boyfriend Ken. Ken and Barbie were dating long before I was even born.

They have been the match made in heaven. Whenever I would playwith my Barbie doll I would always bring out my Ken doll. Barbie and Ken have been dating for 43 years before they spilt up.

When I heard that Barbie and Ken split, I was in shock. I couldn’t believe that my childhood dolls were no longer together. I went on the Internet to find something, anything I could about why they broke up and what I found shocked me even more. On the CNN.com Web site I found an article where Russell Arons, vice president of marketing at Mattel, said that they felt it was time to spend some time apart. Time apart, they are dolls for goodness sakes. How can dolls know if they need to spend some time apart?

Also in the another article it mentions that Barbie has a new younger boyfriend that she is starting to date and that one of the newer dolls is going to be wearing board shorts, a bikini top with metal hoop earrings and have a deeper tan. I started to then wonder if there was really any hope at all for the real world, hell if Ken can’t hold on to his girl, then how are men suppose to do it? It saddens me to think that Barbie has traded Ken in for a younger model, but then again you see that happen all the time.

I wanted to know more about why the couple split so I read some other articles from the Internet. In one of them it said that Barbie left Ken because he wouldn’t marry her, reasonable for her to want to be married to him since they have been dating for 43 years.

The company could’ve made a lot of money off of a wedding. They could’ve come out with a church, wedding Barbie and Ken, some kids of their own down the line and maybe even a new “dream home.”

The way they are going now they have a new love interest. What else are they going to come out with? They could go on for years with new love interest, but there will always only be one man for Barbie and that’s Ken.