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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

It don't make dollars if it don't make sense

So recently I've been able to have serious talks with some of the men in my family. All of the conversations that I've had were completely spur of the moment & I learned a lot very quick. The two main conversations started when the fan on my mom's car overheated, so one of my unc's came to the rescue [with my assistance]. His wife was held up at work for a few days so she wanted to go out to eat when she got off work. Since he had to help my mom out, he wasn't able to make the dinner happen. She constantly called & nagged him about it, and he was constantly explaining to her that he could not possibly plan his sister's car overheating during the time they were supposed have dinner. It turns out we ended up buying a new motor for the radiator fan & finishing fixing it by 10pm.

After that, one of my other uncle's asked me to watch his kids because he was at the hospital with his oldest son. I did that with no problem & when he came back in the morning we talked. ONE of the issues we talked about was the difference he and his wife had in their upbringing. In our family, a child stays in a child's place. In her family, children were allowed to "speak their mind." In other words, they were allowed to talk back to adults. Earlier on in their marriage, she told the kids that they were allowed to verbally express their feelings at will. Once time went on, and the kids got older, things got out of hand so she looks at my unc like, "What you gon do about these kids talkin back?" [PAUSE] In my short 22 ½ do stuff like this often. Why? Your guess is better than mine. For some reason it is built in a woman's brain that "I'm gonna go against the grain as hard as possible because I am always right, and men are stupid!"

How arrogant is that? And women don't give "two tears in a bucket" about making any sense at all. My mom told me that the reason men & women struggle to see eye to eye, is because men think logically & women think with their emotions. So men, realize that when you're wrong you're wrong, and when you're right you're wrong. It'll help you deal with future frustration. Hopefully your chick hooks you up with the awesome jawsome on the regular because that will help even more. If not, you'll get tired of her soon enough. #letsbehonest.