5 Men Every Woman Needs To Meet (But Not Marry)
By Adelle Waldman
Some guys may teach you something, says the author of the riveting novel The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. That doesnt mean you need to spend the rest of your life with them.
1. The One Who Never Wanted To Commit -- Until He Met You
This sounds like the dream, right? The guy who proclaimed to all that hed never settle down with anyone ever, and then ate his words when you came along? But the problem is that no matter how wowed by you he is now, the moment things become less exciting, less overwhelmingly amazing between the two of you (and the moment will come), he is likely to have second thoughts. And that will make you feel awful. Maybe youll sense it happening, in which case youll probably try harder, to do whatever you can to make sure things dont get less exciting. But thats a basis for a performance, not a marriage.
You need to meet this guy, however, so that when you meet the guy you should marry you can tell the difference. The one you ought to marry will be a person who wants to be in a committed relationship and who will work with you to make your marriage strong. He wont feel he has made a mistake, or been duped, every time something between the two of you isnt perfect, because he will already know that relationships, like other true and meaningful things, operate on an axis that has nothing to do with perfectthey are messy, real, evolving things. Thats whats so great about them.
Read On Here: 5 Men Every Woman Needs To Meet (But Not Marry)
By Adelle Waldman
Some guys may teach you something, says the author of the riveting novel The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. That doesnt mean you need to spend the rest of your life with them.
1. The One Who Never Wanted To Commit -- Until He Met You
This sounds like the dream, right? The guy who proclaimed to all that hed never settle down with anyone ever, and then ate his words when you came along? But the problem is that no matter how wowed by you he is now, the moment things become less exciting, less overwhelmingly amazing between the two of you (and the moment will come), he is likely to have second thoughts. And that will make you feel awful. Maybe youll sense it happening, in which case youll probably try harder, to do whatever you can to make sure things dont get less exciting. But thats a basis for a performance, not a marriage.
You need to meet this guy, however, so that when you meet the guy you should marry you can tell the difference. The one you ought to marry will be a person who wants to be in a committed relationship and who will work with you to make your marriage strong. He wont feel he has made a mistake, or been duped, every time something between the two of you isnt perfect, because he will already know that relationships, like other true and meaningful things, operate on an axis that has nothing to do with perfectthey are messy, real, evolving things. Thats whats so great about them.
Read On Here: 5 Men Every Woman Needs To Meet (But Not Marry)