Ramblings About Love 1

Does love make you blind? I just watched cheaper by the dozen today, and it seems to be a recuring theme where there is a couple in love, and one of them will be a jerk/bitch. In the plot, the "good" partner will stick with the jerk/bitch partner even though he/she is acting like a complete jerk/bitch. Until something happens and it dawns on them that this person is really no good and then dump the fella in most spectacular fashion.

Which begs the question, does love really make you blind. And if that really happens then what? Coming back to the movie, the young couple broke up after realising that their ideals where begining to get really incompatible. Then again, we also have examples of the neighbour kid's parents. The wife is obviously overbearing and has certain ideas about society and how to raise kids. The husband obviously has higher morals and disagrees with the wife. But how did they get so far along in the first place?

In the spirit of the title above, this is ramblings about love. I guess my thoughts were provoked because I'm in a relationship that at first glance might bear similarities to both the couples portrayed in the movie. I'd like to have many kids (but 12 is way too many :)), but the other half says that one is one too many. Maybe one is ok, but for me, minimum is 2, preferable 3. Which provokes the thought, am i waiting for the leopard to change its spots when the biological clock rings? Am i going to go the path of Nora Baker? Or end up like thier neighbour?

While lots of differences are present, communication is important in any relationship. Will take it one day at a time and see where i end up. Just pray that i wont stray too far. The saying goes, if you are foolish enough to date that person, you are foolish enough to marry that person. Maybe. But pray that the second part will not be true.


16th June 2004, 1515hrs MYT