People get married with every intention of getting a divorce it seems.
If you are not actively working on your marriage every single day... you are moving closer to failure
This. This is what I was explaining to BlackPearl last night.
There's a line from a Common song that I've told women at the beginning of my relationships. Might be corny but it got my point across. It's from "the Light" and the line is
"So I pray everyday more than anything
friends will stay as we begin to lay
this foundation for a family - love ain't simple
Why can't it be anything worth having you work at annually"
That's what a relationship is to me. It's work.
Women seem to want to meet a man and fall head over heels in love and be emotionally swept off their feet. And sometimes it happens. A lot of times it happens.
And then sometimes it doesn't.
I haven't felt that kind of love since I was a teenager and didn't know any better. Since I've gotten older, I'm not "blinded" by emotion when dealing with a woman.
I off rip can see flaws (which again i like) and I simply run the math in my head. Can I put up with those flaws? Can her flaws put up with my flaws? Can our flaws exist together?
I'm saying I'm looking at it in more "business terms" than emotional terms because I'm a polyamarous man. I can make women fall in love with me whether by my charm or just being myself. So that part isn't even the important part at first because I believe that any woman that gets to know me would love me.
So the whole "fall head over heels" isn't what I'm looking for. In fact I believe that that's immature to look for that.
That strong emotion will leave after a while anyway and then you're left in a relationship with a person who the newness has worn off with, the sex has slowed down... and then what do you got?
Which is why I look at her and try to determine if we can be friends first. I try to determine if we can cohabitate first. I try to determine if we can deal with each others flaws first.
I prefer to build a friendship as the foundation and then build that feeling of love on top of that foundation. And then again that's something that is a constant process. It's a constant job, constant effort AS IT SHOULD BE
I've tried to explain this to my sister, my women friends and others. Yall want this mythical man to sweep yall off your feet.
When are y'all going to get it through your head that 9 times out of 10, that's not whats gonna happen?
You might meet a guy that's willing to pretend and play that role, but 9 times out of 10 this perfection yall are holding out for dont exist. This magical guy that you're gonna fall in love with at first sight dont exist.
Instead yall should be looking for a man that truly wants to be your friend. A man that you know truly cares for you. And build that love on top of that foundation of friendship.