Being constantly bombarded with announcements of people’s engagements, marriages, and babies I started to ask myself, what the hell is wrong with everyone? I am tired of family members and friends asking me when I plan on getting hitched like there is something wrong with me for embracing my singlehood when these are the same people that complain about how much they hate their significant others to anyone who will listen. Hardly any married person I know is happy, and those who seem to be are probably just pretending. On the other hand, people who married for A LOT of money also despise their spouses, BUT they seem more relaxed, and complain with less venom, while sitting in their italian villas. When responding with “never” or “no time soon” these peoples expressions change from questioning to sympathetic to an insulting insinuation that is that negative attitude which makes you unmarryable. Contrary to popular belief, there are actually women in this world who do not dedicate their entire college education to finding a MRS degree, and are not the slightest bit concerned that they do not have 3 kids before they are 30. I am obviously one of these women, as is my sister, so perhaps its a malfunction in our upbringing but we were raised to learn how to make our own money and not need to lean on the support of a man. My sister obviously took this lesson seriously by graduating from a top ranked law school and being a practicing attorney in NYC ever since, never depending on a man and still being single in the city (and happy) at 38. Like most things in my life, I did this half-assed. I believed my parents when they told me I didnt need a man to rely on however lacked the work ethic necessary to rely on myself which leaves me with two options: be the pathetic twenty something eternal daddy’s girl calling home whenever I get myself in a jam (which is far too often) or find myself the man on my bank accounts dreams. Either way I am relying on a man, so I mine as well find the latter to fulfill other “needs” as well.
Brooke Kibler believes in Prince Charming. And she says she is dating him right now, and that she wants to marry him one day. BUT, she is not willing to marry him until he is able to earn a living for them. Brooke summed this up nicely as follows: “You can only live off of love sandwiches for so long”. Queen of Hearts, her radio personality on Heart of the Matter (a college radio show) gives out love advice to callers while filling their heads with gushy love songs. Basically the opposite of anything you will ever hear come from me. I ask myself, is she wise beyond her years believing in the disney fairytale or is the hopeless in hopeless romantic starting to become a reality? Either way you look at it, from my pessimistic outlook or her storybook ending, noone is happy without food in their stomachs, a warm bed to sleep in, and in my case a credit card with no limit to fill my closet, because as you all know, that is where my happiness lies.












