Comments on: I ♥ My Marriage T-Shirt – and that’s not even the news! http://onely.org/2009/03/18/i-%e2%99%a5-my-marriage-t-shirt-and-thats-not-even-the-news/ Fresh perspectives on living solo. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:53:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: onely http://onely.org/2009/03/18/i-%e2%99%a5-my-marriage-t-shirt-and-thats-not-even-the-news/comment-page-1/#comment-955 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:55:11 +0000 http://onely.org/?p=1398#comment-955 Wow, really?? These wierd stories always seem so remote and electronic sometimes, you forget that they actually could happen to someone-you-know-who-knows-someone. . . Yikes. CC

]]> By: Angelina http://onely.org/2009/03/18/i-%e2%99%a5-my-marriage-t-shirt-and-thats-not-even-the-news/comment-page-1/#comment-949 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:34:20 +0000 http://onely.org/?p=1398#comment-949 That is my EX cousin by marriage ( not with the woman he grabbed around the neck, but his ex before that ) lol!!!

]]> By: Lauri http://onely.org/2009/03/18/i-%e2%99%a5-my-marriage-t-shirt-and-thats-not-even-the-news/comment-page-1/#comment-835 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:06:42 +0000 http://onely.org/?p=1398#comment-835 Lori- it seems more like you are describing serial monogamy- correct me if I’m wrong. I’ve been known to have periods of dating or hooking up with a string of guys (periods few and far between that is) but I don’t ever have that level of validation stemming from it. I see that coming more from the serial monogamists. You know, the people who are in one relationship for 2 years, break up, and are suddenly in a new SERIOUS relationship 2 weeks later. (Interestingly, most people I’ve known like this are men!). Regardless these people creep me out for a couple reasons 1) because they can’t seem to function at all without being sewn to another human being and 2) when they do eventually get married, you know it is only because they’ve decided that they are at the “right” age/situation rather than because they’ve finally met the right person.

I have a friend who just got engaged, and I just can’t bring myself to be happy about it. This person puts ALL her eggs in the marriage basket and truly believes that her only value is if she’s attached to a guy and that being married will solve all her problems and unhappiness with life. I hope it works that way for her, but knowing it probably won’t makes me sad. Rather than announce her engagement, I would have been so much more happy for her if she made an announcement that she was finally happy with herself as a single person.

As for your sister getting so excited about the latest- I have nothing to say other than that I have no idea how people can get so excited about it. I used to have hard crushes back when I was in college and thought every guy I crushed on was absolutely the most perfect man in the world. But I don’t know if I’ve just become cynical or what, but I just feel like no one is all that cool. I’m not, my friends aren’t, the guys I’m going to meet aren’t…in the end I am totally capable of caring a great deal for someone else, but I don’t think I’m capable of putting them on a pedestal anymore.

]]> By: Lauri http://onely.org/2009/03/18/i-%e2%99%a5-my-marriage-t-shirt-and-thats-not-even-the-news/comment-page-1/#comment-826 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:53:10 +0000 http://onely.org/?p=1398#comment-826 Oh Singletude, I’m so glad you pointed out poor little Maddy. The way the twins seem to be behaving seems to be so telling of how they feel about the whole situation they’re in- Maddy is searching for some control and Cara is dying for attention. And poor Jon as well. I wonder if all the money and free stuff is worth being in that marriage.

Nonetheless, TLC loves to shower people with a million children with all the attention, praise, and compensation they can get! They’ve got at least 3 shows about it now: Jon & Kate, 18 Kids and Counting, and now Table for 12.

]]> By: onely http://onely.org/2009/03/18/i-%e2%99%a5-my-marriage-t-shirt-and-thats-not-even-the-news/comment-page-1/#comment-798 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:21:43 +0000 http://onely.org/?p=1398#comment-798 Oh gosh, Lori I completely agree–I find *so* much relief being off that emotional roller coaster (I even get secondhand stress from watching my friends go through it) = )
–Christina

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