Ok so admittedly, the title is mean. Every day I get on facebook, there's somebody else from college or high school that's getting married. And I know I've told a lot of people I don't want to get married...and that's still mostly true. I am not anti-marriage...I am anti-the-necessity-of-marriage. It's kind of like the ultimate form of romanticism I suppose. Two people in love enough that they don't need marriage. Yeah yeah...I know....very rosy. Anyway...back to the random ass topic at hand.
I am not anti-marriage. There were girls...and we all know atleast 5....that you could just tell...ALL they wanted in life was to be married and procreate. If they had to get a job to support that habit then so be it....but careers are not the main priority. Marriage and thusly children are the order of the day. THOSE women, you expect to get married. You see their Facebook status and you're not surprised.
But it's the ones that you saw in school that you thought, "Hmmmm...she's one of the ones with a 'great personality' types". I don't want to sound like I'm hating on the less than aesthetically fortunate. Everyone has a right to be happy (or sexlessly bored, depending on who you talk to), and if marriage fulfills a longing instilled from infancy then kudos. I just want to know HOW they do it.
How do they get a man to propose to them? Are they using sexual tricks from some book I have yet to read? (If so, Stef please use your discount to procure said manuscript...jk mom...sorta) Are they beguiling in the beginning and then demanding and the men are too weak to say no? Or, dare I say it, are they just truly happy in love? The Disney princess in me wants to say yes. The jaded shrew in me wants to say "they took a look around and this is the best they can hope to do".
I just don't get it. I'm funny (or at least my mom thinks so!). I'm smart (book smart....I've been perpetually reminded of my lack of common sense). I'm independent, so no gold-digging here. I'm somewhat relatively attractive. My ego doesn't want to admit that there may be something wrong with me....so WHY HASN'T ANYONE PROPOSED TO ME?
This isn't even a discussion on the men...I know I'm attracted to men who can be as commitment-phobic and change friendly as I am. This is about HOW the women do it. I'd at least like to have the opportunity to formulate an awkward no.
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