It looks like Demi and Ashton aren’t about to throw in the towel after the news of Ashton’s condomless cheating with vapid party chicks. We’ve seen them go to Kabbalah camp counseling, and we’ve heard they’re in deep negotiations to save their marriage. Staying with Demi would be a convenient way for Ashton to try and preserve his image after showing that he’s a cheater, a dumbass and a whiner. And of course Demi doesn’t have the self esteem to kick his ass to the curb like he deserves and seems to be asking for.

US Weekly is reporting that Demi and Ashton flew to Turks & Caicos last weekend and stayed at a home that Demi’s ex, Bruce Willis, owns there. They had a brief vacation and probably celebrated Moore’s 49th birthday, which was last Friday the 11th.

Last weekend, the estranged spouses sought refuge in a surprising venue: Moore’s ex-husband Bruce Willis’ vacation home in Turks and Caicos. “They had to get away,” a source tells the new Us Weekly, on stands Friday. “Ashton’s tweeting [about Penn State] was the last straw.” (Last week, Kutcher unwittingly stood up for ousted Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, who was fired amidst a huge child-abuse sex scandal. He later apologized for the incident.)

Kutcher, 33, and Moore, 49, spent time evaluating their marriage following a rocky few months that included Us Weekly’s revelation of the Two and a Half Men star’s infidelities with 22-year-old Sara Leal.

“Things have been very strained,” a source tells Us. “[But] they’re trying to figure things out,” a source tells Us.

[From US Magazine]

While Demi and Ashton were away, Ashton likely cooked up that “living in a bubble” story that was leaked to Page Six all about how we should feel sorry for him since he’s so busy making easy money filming “2 and 1/2 Men,” working on his relationship and Tweeting incessantly that he hasn’t been able to check Google News, glance at a newspaper or turn on CNN. That article, which Kaiser covered on Sunday, was also about how these two are still trying to “save” their relationship. I believe it, and I believe that Ashton will do whatever superficial “work” he needs to in order to convince Demi that he’s serious. He probably loves to have her adoring company, and he loves to have stupid young women adore him on the side. He’s not going to give up either, he’s just going to get smarter about how he cheats.

Does this mean that we should believe that story about Bruce Willis making Ashton cry and beg him for forgiveness for cheating on Demi? Maybe Bruce felt sorry for Ashton and told him he could take Demi to his vacation home, since he wasn’t using it that weekend anyway. I kind of love that visual.

Update Kaiser pointed me to this story in Star [via Jezebel] which claims that Demi likes the ladies. This would be consistent with what we heard from Ashton’s first known mistress, Sara Leal, that Demi and Ashton regularly had threesomes:

A source claims that Demi is attracted to women and much as men, and was cool with Ashton having flirtatious relationships, since she would kiss ladies now and then. But he’s been hooking up with a steady stream of young things and that was never part of the deal. Plus! “Ashton doesn’t have the same kind of respect for her that he once had. At the same time, she’s grown really insecure.” Blerg. The only good part to this sad and ugly story is the sidebar, “Demi’s Women,” (See Fig. 9) which paints her as a good-time gal possibly playing lickety split with Jen Aniston instead of the irrelevant Sunset Boulevard washed-up hag they’re usually trying to convince us she’s turned into. Maybe she should rebound with a hot young lady?

[From Jezebel, details from Star]

It could be true, but it doesn’t mean that Demi is any less devastated by Ashton stepping out on her.

These photos are from 10/26/11 and 10/18/11. Credit: WENN and Fame