I HATE MEN

**Before You read this I should warn you that I’m very bitter.**

I’m loyal to a fault. I was the epitome of the “stand by your man” parasite that a lot of women are stricken with, but unfortunately, men don’t have a problem being bitten by the inverse of this bug!!

I am a Myspace junkie, to say the least, and I see these profiles with men who have their wives, girlfriends, or significant others on their profile pictures with little comments describing them as “the love of their life” or “I’d die without you”, and yet they are constantly asking me for my time in someway, i.e., dates, sex, phone number etc..

But the funny thing is when they ask me,”Baby, you are fine. Why is a fine woman like you single?”

They are the reason I’m single!! How can you proclaim to love someone and even die for them if you can’t even keep your vow of fidelity?

It’s not just the men I meet from the internet either. My ex fiance, the man I loved for 11 long years, the man I lost my house, car, and job for left me for a woman I considered a friend about 2 years ago, but the story doesn’t end there..Oh no, he had been sending messages to me through other people that he and this woman, are going to get married. It hurt, but what could I do about it?

A couple of days ago, that same man came to my house and proclaimed his love for me.

“No woman in this world has made me feel the way you do,” he said.

In the beginning, I hated this woman for taking him away from me, but as I watched him drive HER car outta my driveway, I felt sorry for her. She’s an idiot just like I was!!

My definition of love:
*Honesty
*Trust
*Reflexive Commitment(without having to think about it)
*Knowing that what would hurt you, would hurt your love one, so you refuse to do it

I learned the hard way that there are many HUGE DECEPTIONS:

*The idea of Santa Clause helped parents keep their kids in line. As long as your kids believed in Santa, they would be pretty good around Christmas. But once they begin to realize that it was impossible for one man to do all that traveling, it hit them that you were lied to, and they were crushed.

*The Boogie Man was there for the rest of the year to scare them into being good, and once they get older and realize that there are scarier humans than the Boogie Man ever thought about being, they get a little upset that they suffered the emotional damage and woke up in cold sweats because of nightmares for no reason.

*The Easter Bunny helped parents entertain their kids around that holiday, but when those kids make the connection that bunnies don’t lay eggs, they get upset that there was one particular kid that kept finding the “prize egg” every year.

*The Tooth Fairy made it easier for the kids to accept the fact that they were going to lose their teeth, endure some pain, and take really ugly pictures in elementary school,but once those teeth came back in crooked and the painful visits to the orthodontist to fix them took place, that lie surrounding that meager amount of money the tooth fairy left under the pillow makes losing those teeth a bit more upsetting.

..and now I can add love to my list. This is an idea created by people to make lust seem less vulgar and this lie has been exacerbated by greeting card, jewelry, and candy companies to make money. If at one time in history it existed, it has since died with the dinosaurs.

Now that I am older I realize that we are all human (sometimes) and humans make mistakes. To believe in that definition of love, is to believe that because of someone’s feelings for you they will somehow “reprogram” themselves just for you. We believe that somehow that special someone will have the ability to trade their natural instinct for sex, greed, deception, and self protection for super human powers like constant self control, monogamy, and total honesty.

Unfortunately, like all the other deceptions, when someone tells you they love you and you find out later that all the effort you put into keeping that “love” was in vain, it hurts to find out that the one person you trusted, had reflexive commitment for, and all but died for, was the one person who hurt you more than anything in the world.