I know a number of people who didn’t marry their “spec” but are in the healthiest marriages I know. Their spec was typically whatever was culturally deemed to be at the apex of the attractiveness pyramid when they were growing up. For a lot of guys in my generation, it was the music video “vixens” from the late 90s/early 2000s Hip & R&B music videos with ‘coke bottle figures’ and or light skinned eurocentric features. When it’s time to find a partner for the very serious endeavor of sharing a life with, that “spec” is simply inadequate as a measure of compatibility and that’s understandable. The foolishness though is communicating it as though their partner somehow didn’t measure up to their “spec” instead of simply admitting that the idea of their spec was stupid all along and a young boy’s lack of wisdom of what makes a good life partner.
Communicating publicly or even privately to your partner that they weren’t your spec to begin with may seem harmless, after-all you’re just being honest. But subconsciously, it’s an ego trip for you who “settled” and for your the partner, it’s a chip they will always carry on their shoulder that to you, they aren’t quite enough. They’re missing something you had always longed for, so much so that you still consider it to be your “spec”. It’s an unnecessary mind fuck and a cruel thing to say about somebody who is sharing a life with you. No matter how flowery you are with the compliments that come after. You’ve already knocked them down several pegs.
If the point is to say your spec changed then talk about the stupidity of having a spec to begin with. Because I’ve never heard anyone in these situations talk about character attributes being their spec, it’s always superficial stuff. Or speak about how meeting your partner opened your eyes to what true beauty is. Speak in ways that elevate and affirm your partner.
The older you get, the more you realize luck is mostly exposure. If you sit in the same place, have the same routine, talking to the same people, nothing new really happens. You have to tackle the world to succeed. Travel more. Talk to people.
just apologize when you know that you fucked up... all of that manipulative behavior and being mad at a person for being mad at you when they have a legit reason to be is just weird shit... people love to say they grown until it's time to hold themselves accountable!
You're allowed to change your opinion if you learn something new that challenges your old opinion.
Holding to old opinions in the face of superior intelligence is not a sign of intelligence.
@iamDo2dtun As a woman I felt his story was a sad one because he was just a man in love and although we didn’t know all that happened one could just tell that that woman was deceptive and dishonest with him from a few of the points he mentioned. Not nice at all
As a sexually active man, please pity your partners. 🙏
When you use public toilets, rinse your penis.
Before you sit, lace with toilet papers.
Use one boxer per day.
Your penis care is also important to maintain her vagina's PH. You're the one causing the fishy smell.
Maintaining the balance of being strict when you have to (that which makes people know you are a no-nonsense person) and being a nice/kind person in the workplace is an art that must be mastered by anyone who intends to stay long in leadership.
Once you crack it, you're good!
“It’s gonna sound hypocritical ’cause I did so much shit in my life. I had my nipples out, I had my panties out… But now those are the things that, as a mom, an evolved young lady I just feel like I would never do. I’m like, ‘Oh my god, I really did that? Nips out?’”
-Rihanna