Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Learn how to keep a man!

Say what?
There has been a lot of talk around me lately about women learning "how to keep a man"
and things of that nature. Honestly, it makes me uncomfortable. I see a lot of people these days giving baseless advice  urging others to follow what they preach as scripture. *cough* Steve Harvey *cough*
Not to say that there is absolutely no truth in what these people are saying...but it all goes back to my previous post about watching who you take advice from.
I digress though, back to the original point of women learning "how to keep a man."
My whole discrepency with this statement is...not every man is meant to be kept.
Women seem to have been brought into this state of "I need to be wanted in order to be worthy." It almost seems like her accomplishments outside of a relationship are only factors into keeping a relationship. It comes to a point where a woman is CEO, has (a) advanced degree(s,) her own place, is self-sufficient, but if she's single...all those things are almost USELESS...because she's doing all these great things with her life...but she cannot seem to catch and keep a man with it.
HOWEVER, I would like to play (God's) advocate, maybe she is so successful because she chose to make investments into her future rather than making an investment into a relationship that would've hindered her future. Maybe she has had men along the way that were willing to be caught but weren't worthy of keeping. Maybe she is waiting on someone who will compliment her lifestyle that she has chosen to be for her rather than hindering the process. She does this with no regrets because realistically men do this all the time!
I think, we as woman have to establish a new sense of self-worth. To know and understand that the underlying factor for almost every male action is the desire to get a woman. Once women own and accept this they wouldn't fear not being able to maintain a relationship with a man and settling for less than what she deserves just so she can have a man that is probably not worth keeping. She will know that no matter what she does she's worthy of being loved at her FULL potential and wouldn't be weighed down by the people on the outside saying that keeping a man is the ULTIMATE GOAL.
I want to personally retrain my brain to not accept the status quo of "learning how to keep a man" but "learning how to IDENTIFY and LOVE a man worth keeping." FURTHERMORE, a man worth keeping is a man who will love you because of who you are now, your dreams, ambitions, AND any future accomplishments.
There are plenty of fish in the ocean...the ocean is big...and if you fish with the right hook (frame of mind) you'll catch a fish but not any fish..a fish that you can unhook and will be still there riding the waves with you...

Disclaimer: These are just random thoughts...bear with me...

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