It's every girls dream to find a guy that TREATS her right, takes CARE of her, and you know live happily ever after.... that's what all the princesses in the Disney movies do right??? The girl never sacrifices anything... she has the fiances AND the love... end of story... run the scroll. Let's step outside of the screenplays and etc... AND get real! In the real world we ALL have to sacrifice something... well at least women do. Think about it... we are suppose to cook, clean, fuck, back our men.... be the back bone in the relationship but sit back and let the man think he runs it. Right? I relationship is Never EVER equal... in a perfect world it is but guess what this isn't a perfect world so with that being said relationships are not equal.... but the question still remains. What are you willing to sacrifice?
Just recently, I have found out that I am sacrificing companionship. My husband shows me affection when he wants to show affection. It doesn't matter if I need to held because my day was totally FUCKED, and I can not get my feet rubbed if they are swollen. There are times that I take a backseat to the Xbox, or a phone conversation from a old time friend OR male friend. Today I asked him why don't you show affection... his response was "I don't feel like being bothered"...WOW ain't that a bitch... I asked him well did you treat your other girlfriends like this? I already know the answer was no... but I wanted him to prove me wrong. It's like I need for him to prove me wrong but he never does. Well when I asked him this question... he got mad and "you always bring ppl up that have no relevance to us." Then once again the disrespectful talk, comes up. I shut it down.... from anything that we have been through one thing I'm cutting out is the disrespectful talk. nope nope nope... not gonna happen. Well, after that he said yeah, I did tell them that I didn't feel like being bothered... and that was that. That was a lie but I dropped it... no sense in beating a dead horse right? Are my feelings hurt..yes yes yes. It just seems like he will never change... now what he DOES is pays the bills, foot the bill when we go out, anything with money, he will handle it. So because he does this.... I sacrifice affection.
Now this goes back to the good ol question.... which would you rather have LOVE or MONEY. Don't be too quick to answer that question... I said what most women would... I would rather have love... because blah blah blah blah... but when those bills start marching in and you can't write the word LOVE on the invoice shit starts to get real. If you chose Money.... look at the situation I am in. Bills are taken care of but the heart isn't.
You ever look at a couple and think everything is just wonderful? We all know that relationships have problems but you look at couples who look like they have their shit together but behind closed doors this woman OR this man could be getting their ass whooped by their partner or they could be getting cheated on or whatever... a number of things could happen, but we would never know because to us that couple looks happy. Someone is sacrificing something.... it could be long term happiness, could be affection ( like myself), hell it could be anything. Think about this question... and spare me the whole I'm a independent women bullshit and I don't need a man to do for me. Truth is we all need our partners to do something for us... if not why partner up?
Anywho... I'm in a pickle...I could be selfish and do what most married women do when they sacrifice companionship but that's the easy way out AND it would bring more issues to the table more than what I need or want. I wish I would have thought about this question before I made the moves that I did.
I miss that broke love LOL... I was in a 3 year relationship with a woman and even though she was a fucking liar.... ( I sacrificed the truth with her) she loved me and we were BROKE! I had a really bad semester in college, the folks took away my aid and grants.. I had to pay $500 a month to stay in school... and couldn't miss a payment, had a car note, had insurance, etc. My ex decided to pay the utilities but she was only making about $8 a hour. She got paid weekly only brought home about $200... she would pay the bills and we wouldn't have $30 to our names but when I came home... I ran into love. There were always hugs and kisses, she would always find a way to take me out even if it was free or we would get chinamen, some bootleg DVD's, and some coolers and cuddle on the couch. One time things got really bad.... our gas was cut off. We had to bathe in cold water for a month... could not cook because we had a gas stove. She would warm water up in the microwave and throw it in the tub so when I got home from work I could have at least a luke warm bath waiting for me. She would ether get in with me or just let me bathe first and she would get in after me. Water would be cold and dirty but she didn't complain. I miss that broke love... that love that when you are at your lowest you can still feel like a queen when you are with your mate... but I was sacrificing MONEY and honesty. I didn't want to take baths in microwavable water... I wanted HOT water so if I choose to stay in the tub longer I could. I wanted to have a night out on the town and drink expensive wine on the riverfront but I couldn't but I had that love and at that moment in my life I was okay. BUT I HAD TO SACRIFICE SOMETHING.... at this point I am not sure if I'm willing to sacrifice companionship.... uhmmm that's something to think about....