Mirror Mirror on the Wall...

I have bad news.

Your significant other represents you.

Yes, it's true. It's very seldom that you're blessed to find your equal. If you do - Good for you. If you're like the other 90% of lovers, then you have to work harder. And this one my friends, comes with a little tale...

This weekend was spent in the arms of my family. My family was coming from a wedding. That wedding sucked. ASS. What I personally saw from the wedding was the after party... which was by far the lousiest party I've been to in years, I thought it sucked because everyone was exhausted from the fab wedding. The next day I asked people how went the actual wedding? The food sucked (box mashed potatoes, canned green beans, saukraut cabbage, powdered gravy, and fried chicken) The music sucked (the couple is mixed, the bride was white and the groom was zimbabwean - the music was not culture considerate - so only one half of the room had a gas) and so on and so forth the atrocities went

Now. In America - Brides organize the wedding. Which really is no issue - but in this case - How was this girl supposed to know that Africans put weddings up on a pedestal? That Africans pick what to wear to a wedding MONTHS in advance? That Africans take weddings to such an extreme, that they NEED to be involved in the celebration... they will drive 13 hours to share this day with you? That Africans need a buffet style of home-made DELICIOUS food to select from? If this man was marrying an African Woman - they would have had excellent cuisine, they wedding guests would have danced all day and all night into a drunken celebratory stupor, they would have had gifts up to the ceiling... it would have been 100 times the wedding it was.

What I'm saying is - even though the wedding was fabulous for her (which it was. All the people who told me about the wedding commented on how happy she was - YAY!), it couldn't have been worse for him (it really couldn't). Everything she did for that wedding represents the couple, and since he wasn't involved she did exactly what she wanted to do - and it was such a low-bar in comparison to his culture's standards that he came out looking terrible.

If your significant other isn't case sensitive to you and you're a person who doesn't like being involved in "couple shit" - then you better have a lean-mean-super-human machine running the ship. Because when things like this happen - you look bad. Real Bad. There's nothing quite as ego-deflating as knowing your friends and family look down on your significant other because your lover can't cater to your standards. The older married African women who commented on this wedding said they feel bad for the bride - because of the adultery in his definite future. They said if that was their WEDDING, if the WEDDING day is representative of the quality of their relationship, then the relationship must be in shambles. And any girl who wanted to snatch him already knows where to hit... 0_0

Let this be a lesson to all you couples out there. Especially to you lazy bones who leave EVERYTHING to the other person... The things you do as a couple represent you as a couple. So if you give a shit about being in a fulfilling relationship - you gotta C.O.N.T.R.I.B.U.T.E

#bigbrotheriswatching