Hunting Season

It would seem that everyone is getting married these days. It's the age, I suppose. People are pairing off so they can start monograming towels and buying supper sets on discount. Really, marriage is  a Magical Mystery, a Wonder of the Universe. But from where I'm sitting, marriage is a Mind-Rattle. It baffles me how two individuals are able to come together from such warped, bi-polar mindsets and figure out that being together beats living the alternative.

The other day, I heard tell of a young lady who bought her wedding dress a full two months before her boyfriend proposed. She just KNEW he was going to ask her and so one day she thought to herself, "I'll go out and spend a few grand on a white princess dress because I just KNOW its going to come of use later this wedding season." And then she went off skipping through a field of posies and talked to her animal friends. Seriously though, he proposed yesterday and they're Very Excited.

Meanwhile, back in reality, hundreds of thousands of guys are off trolling bars and clubs looking for the next "shorty" they'll refer to later as "junk" after they "banged that broad." (Phrases in quotations are excerpts from a fascinating conversation I heard at the gym recently.) One of my guy friends actually told me that although he was in a relationship with the girl he plans to marry,  he was living 4 hours away from her, and spending his weekends at local bars meeting... new friends. I asked him why he wasn't spending quality time with the future Mrs. and he said, "Why would I do that?!"

Umm.... ?

There lies the twist. That poor girl is off somewhere just knowing she and this guy will go off and live happily ever after, but has no promise from him, has no guarantee that this will happen, and feels like a total slut every time she hooks up with someone else in the meantime.  She has probably been obsessing about this since her first Disney movie, and that ante was upped when she learned about Bridal Registries. She wants it to happen yesterday, and he's hoping it won't happen 'til juuuuuust before his Mr. Jolly turns to jelly.

And yet, people are still getting married while they're young enough to have children.... This is why babies are called Miracles.