the last woman I want to be with
Monday, June 11, 2007
I just finished watching the movie The Last Run after reading a review that made it sound like a silly juvenile comedy. Sometimes if I'm in the right mood, those can hit the spot. The movie was juvenile but it was also hardly funny at all, and ended up being about a guy who tries to sleep with as many women as he can to get his cheating girlfriend out of his system and turns into a sex addict along the way. Har dee har, eh?
But it did get me thinking about the nature of relationships and because I live in my head so much, it gave me cause to reflect on my own. Maybe its because the main character is such a shitbag that its easy for me to look at myself in his reflection and come away feeling like I'm the better person. But when I think about my wife, I know that there is no other person in the world that I would rather be with until the day I die. I often tell her that if she were to die I'd become the male equivalent of a spinster (and what's the word for that anyway?), and I'm not kidding about that.
I don't know that I believe that there is only one person out there that is right for everybody; I suppose I can't believe that, and if it were true, what are the chances that the two of us just happened to go to the same high school? So even if the idea of 'the one' can't be true based on the number of potential people anyone could be with, the truth is that I am no longer the slightest bit interested in being with another person other than her. She is my Yuna after all, and if she is that which makes me real, then what am I without her?
Don't get me too far wrong. I liken looking at other women as similar to window shopping when you're broke. You can look all you want so long as there is no chance whatsoever that you'll do any shopping. So I do it, but that's only the genetic imperative doing its thing.
I've been on what would appear to be a John Waite kick lately, and that probably deserves a little introspection in and of itself, but he may have put it best when he said about his girl:
But it did get me thinking about the nature of relationships and because I live in my head so much, it gave me cause to reflect on my own. Maybe its because the main character is such a shitbag that its easy for me to look at myself in his reflection and come away feeling like I'm the better person. But when I think about my wife, I know that there is no other person in the world that I would rather be with until the day I die. I often tell her that if she were to die I'd become the male equivalent of a spinster (and what's the word for that anyway?), and I'm not kidding about that.
I don't know that I believe that there is only one person out there that is right for everybody; I suppose I can't believe that, and if it were true, what are the chances that the two of us just happened to go to the same high school? So even if the idea of 'the one' can't be true based on the number of potential people anyone could be with, the truth is that I am no longer the slightest bit interested in being with another person other than her. She is my Yuna after all, and if she is that which makes me real, then what am I without her?
Don't get me too far wrong. I liken looking at other women as similar to window shopping when you're broke. You can look all you want so long as there is no chance whatsoever that you'll do any shopping. So I do it, but that's only the genetic imperative doing its thing.
I've been on what would appear to be a John Waite kick lately, and that probably deserves a little introspection in and of itself, but he may have put it best when he said about his girl:
"The world out there can kiss my ass
As long as I ve got you I'm free"
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posted by raistlinsghost at 6/11/2007 02:00:00 AM
1 Comments:
Awww, you should show her your post, that is the sweetest thing.
Glen and I were highschool sweethearts too. We've been together for 18 years now. Holy crap, typing that was a bit scary.
I couldn't imagine starting over with another guy. I mean all the training alone would take YEARS and I'm too old for that now. :p
Seriously though I get what you are saying. Glen knows me better than I know myself. It's awesome when you have someone like that in your life. Trinity will thank you one day when she is an adult for giving her such a wonderful example of a loving relationship.
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