We know that Taylor knows her love life is ripe for the picking at.

Many times over she's said that she has made a choice in choosing to open up about past experiences in her music, the consequence of her choice being that people—fans and otherwise—have ended up grossly fascinated by every move she makes in between albums as well.

Doesn't mean she does not deserve privacy. Taylor just knows that's a long shot. Her decision to not steal away with Tom Hiddleston to a private island only accessible by dinghy so they could enjoy the early weeks of their romance without being tracked everywhere they went was a conscious one. Which doesn't mean it was a calculated decision, but it wasn't made in a vacuum, either.

At the same time it wasn't a blank check for no one to take Tom and Taylor seriously. Who doesn't want to fall in love right after a breakup? There wouldn't be such a thing as a messy, drawn-out, painful split if a British heartthrob who is actually taller than your 5 feet and 10 inches is waiting in the wings.

But a lot of people tend to cast themselves in the starring role of their own fairytale and not like it when it happens to someone else. Especially when that someone else is supposed to be the poster girl for heartbreak, not happily ever after.