Interracial Relationships

I hate to admit that I am a romantic.  As a romantic, I'm interested in a wide variety of relationships.  And I'm interested in interracial relationships, so I was sad to hear that Halle Berry and her soon-to-be-ex-beau are divorcing, because this relationship, for a long time, was held up as a model. 
A lot of the stuff said in this article makes me really sad.  Mostly it's about everyone's bizarre assumptions surrounding interracial relationships. 
Everyone is about assumptions, it seems.  This depresses me deeply.