Love and Marriage

There are a group of websites that I visit frequently to combat boredom whilst at work. Namely gossip sites. Perezhilton, Jezebel, Popsugar. I mentioned the latter, specifically, because they have several sites under the "sugar" blanket. Food, house, beauty, fashion, etc. They also, apparently, have an I DO Sugar. Yes. You read that right. The sole topic is weddings.

Apparently April is engagement month. I understood that there were specific 'seasons' for weddings, but didn't think that an entire month devoted to engagements was in order. Everywhere I look it's "How would you rather be proposed to?" "How important is that ring?" "Get that wedding day body in just 30 days!" et cetera, ad nauseum. Yuck.


Have I mentioned there was a bachelorette party at the Orpheum on Saturday? Yeah.

As a woman in her mid-t0-late twenties, in a long term relationship with her live-in boyfriend (read: non-spinster)... I'm really fucking sick of it. I'm having weddings thrown in my face left and right. Coming from someone who honestly believes in the sacrament of marriage, and the seriousness of the situation... I call bullshit on all of it. I know so many girls who want to get married just for the party. The white dress. The diamond rock on their finger. I know girls who are still on their parent's payroll who are getting married. I know girls who have known their fiancee for 5 months, that are getting married. I know girls who have never ever even lived on their own, who are getting married. I know girls who aren't even in relationships with guys but are convinced they're getting married.

What gives?

Have I just reached that age where two are becoming one? Or have I just fallen so low on the dating totem pole that I'm just destined to be in this revolving door of stable long term relationship after stable long term relationship with no future commitment to look forward to? Girls who I saw grinding on two different guys at the bar last night, are wearing all white and traipsing down the aisle. Girls who I saw making out with other girls last weekend, are currently trying to write their own vows. I'm not complaining, per say... just wondering where my marriage potential dropped off the radar, and these very young/very stupid/very simple ladies got on.

Am I ready to get married right now? Probably not. Considering my reasoning for that answer (mental instability, debt, lack of personal motivation), would I ever be viable marriage material? Probably not. Does that upset me? Of course. But, I've got time to work on it. Who knows, maybe on day I'll meet someone who wants me to stick around long enough to help him find his dentures.

But if my phone rings with another shrill voice screaming "Guess what?!" somebody better be knocked the fuck up.