What is it with women and weddings? Ok, ok, lemme rephrase that… What is it with women and thinking that marriage equates to happily-ever-after?

Story: I know a couple who’s been driving each other nuts everyday. Yeah, that’s D-A-I-L-Y. They broke up twice this year and the last breakup was 2 months ago. They got back together just recently and been at it again – killing each other by the day. They plan to marry next year.

Talking to the girl, she apparently expects the guy to change “over time”. Yeah, like that will happen. Fact: People don’t change after they graduate high school. They just mature. Yeah, murderers and thieves can walk away from their past lifestyle but their personalities remain.

Somehow, the girl expects the guy eventually to be less insecure, less jealous of every other guy who sends her sms and let her wear clothes that are actually considered fashionable, sexy and trendy. Apparently, he’s so conservative. In my book (which is almost always correct), those self-titled “conservatives” are the real infidel maniacs.

Somehow, a lot of women think this way, like all their problems with their boyfriends (infidelity, insecurity, jealousy, beer, smoking, over-spending etc.) will evaporate when they get married. They should just as well believe in Santa.

The way you are as a couple is an approximation of your married lives. If you expect things will change after marriage then you are either a disillusioned girl (or guy even) or a mental twit. Some of my friends are married and very happy. That’s because they are good at choosing their partners.

Another girl I know is pushing to go to Disneyland, Hongkong and get married there. Ok, we know that women are hard-wired to want Hollywood weddings but unfortunately not all of them have Hollywood wallets. This girl is borrowing money from credit card cash advances, loans and her relatives. The poor guy she is marrying is forced to do as much loaning just to give her her dream wedding. I’ve seen this thing in Oprah – A couple have just been married for one year and they are already in debt because they paid for a wedding they couldn’t afford in the first place. That couple has been driving each other crazy about money ever since they walked out of their honeymoon suites. This is a disaster waiting to happen. Soon the wife will blame (nag, bitch around) the husband for not being able to support the family financially and he gets frustrated and goes to another less-demanding girl for a stress-relieving fuck. Yippee. An asian masseuse with a happy-ending.

No matter what I tell these two friends of mine, they ain’t hearing me. These women are headed straight for their “dream” married-life down at Wysteria Lane. Say “hi” to Teri Hatcher for me.


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