How Much Is Enough?

I got a friend who’s going through those never ending relationship problems. Oh, what can it be? Her guy is cheating on her. What does she do? Gets mad but doesn’t leave him because she’s ‘in love’ with him.

I for one can’t blame her because truth be told, I was in that very same position a year ago. I understand every bit of her feelings. And many of us have been in the very same position, feeling the same thing. Being hurt but not knowing what to do.

What always comes to mind is, ‘oh gee, we’ve been together for quite awhile now, it’ll just be wasted if we break up’ or ‘I can’t find someone else better.’

This is not the first time he has done this and got caught. I’ve seen him at a local pub flirting around with girls half his age! But then again, I can’t help but think that she’s just asking to be hurt. What can you expect from a 40 year old divorcee who can’t even take care of his own offspring because he’s too busy being a self-declared master playboy. (The last bit is of my own personal view from first impressions.) Honestly? Not only that but he’s those kind of chest-banging, vine swinging, I tarzan you Jane, neantherthals.

She gets hurt, she cries (I’m presuming), she gets mad but you ain’t seeing her walking through the door anytime soon because she ‘loves’ him. Love sure is different these days. Very sadistic. People who cause others to be ‘in love’ should be tried for human rights violation.
But most people are like that. They complain and complain but at the end of the day, nobody really knows what they want and logic says, if you don’t know what you want then that means you also don’t know what you don’t want therefore why complain? It’s like bringing a tennis racket to a bowling alley that is in a swimming pool. What does the metaphor mean? As apparent as it sounds, it doesn’t make sense!
I honestly don’t know her that well but I’ve met her a few times her and there. She tells my friend her problems who then refers the problems back to me (because he thinks I’m some break-up specialist or something like that). On one hand, I pity her because she can get any guy but just doesn’t know it and on the other hand, I’d hit her on the head for the very same reason. But once she takes that step she’ll feel exactly like I did, free.