Apparently, they're getting married. "They will get married very soon," said an insider. "He proposed in November, but she said she wasn't ready," another source adds. "But she finally accepted his proposal in late February. She's not wearing a ring until they can announce it at an engagement party, but Rihanna's already telling her family she's engaged."

No official reps from Brown or Rihanna have confirmed the story—in fact, there has been no confirmation that the two are even together (by all reports, Brown is still dating his girlfriend of several months, model Karrueche Tran). Rumors about the two have been swirling since they collaborated on a song together less than three years after Brown violently attacked Rihanna the night of the Grammy Awards, where both artists were scheduled to perform.

Rihanna's apparent reconciliation with her abuser has raised some major concerns about the "responsibilities" of a celebrity role model and the glorification of domestic abusers. Following the Grammy Award ceremony in February, where Brown performed and won an award, the Huffington Post rounded up a series of Tweets featuring young girls reporting that Chris Brown could "beat me any time." The article expressed concern about what kind of message those tweets—and The Recording Academy itself—sent to young girls, asking, "Where have we gone wrong as a society when girls think it's OK to be hit if the guy is hot?"

The Grammys aren't the only target of concern: Rihanna herself has come under fire for letting Brown back into her life. Several blogs have criticized Rihanna for setting a "bad example" for other people in abusive relationships by going back to her abuser, as well as for sending the wrong message to abusers that violence will be forgiven and therefore does not need to stop. Fans of Brown have argued that he has been rehabilitated and that he should not be punished forever, but those arguments have been countered by those who cite Brown's tantrum on "Good Morning America" last year. Brown's critics also point out that there are a great number of talented artists without domestic abuse records who could have been tapped to perform at the award show.

It might be unfair to say that celebrities have a responsibility to set good examples for the people who look up to them—especially considering that I would be out of a job if they made good decisions all the time. That being said, Rihanna does have a responsibility to herself to keep her body safe from harm. Maybe Chris Brown really has changed, but if he has not, I hope Rihanna realizes it before the events of 2009 happen again.