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told a friend not too long ago that “I have the worst luck with women!” That person responded to my statement, by saying, “If you had luck with them you’d be married.” Good point!
But still, the dating process has been a tedious one to say the least. I have an almost Seinfeldesque habit of picking one thing out about the person I’m seeing and focusing on that one point until I drive myself crazy enough to drive her away.
And then there are all those times that the “relationship to be” never even makes it off the ground (approx 90%). But while cursing the dating gods who consistently time and time again frown on me, I do have a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving week.
In my daily routine of observing peoples interaction (some sick human behavioral fetish I have) I’ve come to notice that there are a staggering number of people who have a “significant other” but have no true relationships.
We’ve all seen them, the couples that seem like their miserable together but yet never break up. Relationships that could be considered nothing but mental abuse to the two consenting partners, as they never really seem to get along with each other. We see it all the time.
I’ve also noticed a lot of people that only have that one other person in their life and don’t actually have any friends.
I think its some kind of social rule that if your dating someone you can’t hang out with anybody but the person your seeing. And this is why I’m thankful!
While I have not found love yet I have found an entire cast of characters who are there for me, who continue to mentor me and who slap the taste out of my mouth when I step out of line.
These are the relationships that make life meaningful. Not the people you long over but the people who you confide in.
This Thanksgiving shall we look inside our hearts and make a conscious effort to not take for granted the many people around us who are just simply there because I know if mine weren’t there for me, I’d have been committed or married. Or do the two coincide?
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