He will argue with me (and more often than not be right) and have the balls to tell me when I'm being wrong, dense, stubborn, etc.

He teaches me things when I ask questions. He's patient enough to pause Hardball or John Adams and explain something when I don't know it.

He really really loves my ass.

You know, I find these three items to be fairly new on the romantic landscape. Here is a girl who is basically asking/wanting her guy to be superior in certain ways.

And don't read too much into that word, "superior"...you know what I mean.

I really respect that. I find that girls nowadays are being a lot more honest about what they want. Sure, a lot of them don't really know what they want, but for the ones that do, they are speaking up.

I think that not too long ago if some girl had said that she wants her man to right, and put her in her place (which is what she is saying), she would have been roundly destroyed by the feminists. Now, people are a little freer to say things like that.

Posted by: Ian Lewis on April 17, 2008 10:54 AM

The Tony Sclafani rant was amusing. While he raises some good points about hypocrisy, and about virginity being used as a marketing tool, nevertheless, he seems to take it personally that some celebs loudly proclaim their virginity, as if they were "shoving it down" his throat.

What's really eating him? Methinks it's simply irritation at those of more conservative bent than MSNBC/Newsweek columnists such as himself, actually borrowing a page from the left (which has used the culture of tell-all to advance its agenda) and fighting fire with fire. How dare those virgins stand up and be counted! How dare they open their mouths and proclaim their alternate lifestyle choice, as being equally legitimate as that of the progressives'! The nerve of those people!

Posted by: Will S. on April 19, 2008 1:34 AM

So,

The real issue here is that Jo was nice enough to write this post basically talking about how wonderful she thinks I am. In a vacuum, anyone could read that and come to some of the conclusions that you all have. But she didn't mention the issues and areas that I have where she has helped and continues to help me.
There is no perfect match. There is only the person that you love and your experience growing older and (hopefully) wiser together.
We all 'put up with' each other sometimes. It doesn't mean we don't love, nor does it mean we're going anywhere. This is the real world: We're going to have bad days, months, maybe years. We're going to have differences of personality or thought. It doesn't indicate a deeply flawed relationship necessarily. It's just life.
All there is is love. I don't know how else to say it.

Posted by: "Perfect Guy" on April 21, 2008 12:31 PM






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