Reality Check

Yesterday I was able to snag almost 2 hours to myself which is EXTREMELY rare. I usually get an hour thanks to Sam but yesterday I snuck in 2. Anyhow I was laying on the bed and decided to watch TV. I hardly ever watch anything so I have no clue what comes on and on what days. But yesterday The Bachelor was on. I've heard of the show of course but never watched it and it happened to be the season finale when he actually proposes to who he chooses. I came to an early conclusion: The Bachelor has got to be one of the dumbest shows in existence.

While watching that episode he made out with both girls (and this is the last show, who knows how many more women he made out with on the show). At the end of the show when he let one girl down he went and cried over her and said that he was in love with two women. And then the next silly girl to come he proposed to and she was ecstatic! It was just painstakingly stupid. Then if The Bachelor wasn't painful enough they had a follow up of the show come on right after.

So now fast forward 6 weeks this Bachelor is back on saying he made a mistake in choosing the girl he proposed to. He should've chosen the other one. So he broke up with her on National Television and called the other girl out and told her he made a mistake and he should've picked her and this idiot accepts his apology and allows him to kiss her and now they're going to be together...just a whole two hours of stupidity.

I just wrote a blog on the importance of marriage and to see this show...it just shows how marriage isn't valued to me. These people don't love each other. It's lust. Maybe the women are in love I don't know but this wishy washy male?

And to make matters worse, he's already been divorced once. And I'm not saying you can't find love again after one divorce. However he's already been divorced and now he's being wishy washy on who he wants to marry...don't these girls see the warning signs? I'd be curious to find out his role in the divorce if I was them.

Also he has a son. Again I'm not against inheriting a step child. However this show portrayed it as "the perfect fairy tale" The girl is looking forward to becoming a step mother. And nothing wrong with that, however, how naive are these women? Do they think it's going to be easy to step into this young boys life?

And that leads me to another thing I'm going to blog about at another time. Actually next time I will. Why is it so romantic and looked upon as a good thing when you see a single father and usually with single mothers people run? I haven't seen The Bachelor before but do any of these women have children of their own? Just curious. And I'll blog about this next time in more detail because Sam and I noticed that when I'm out with the children alone I get treated a certain way and when he's out he gets treated another...I'll explain in my next post.

But anyway that's how I spent my two hours. Basically trying to counsel the women on TV as if they could hear me. "DON'T DO IT!!!!" was the main phrase I kept using last night. I really hope young girls and women aren't following this show or enamored with it because it's really sad to see marriage devalued like that. Also I looked up the history of this show and only one couple made it down the isle and it said this show has been on for 13 seasons! How stupid. Obviously this is a failed concept. Compete for your husband on national TV. Let him make out and do who knows what with other contestants and hope he picks you based off of who knows what. This doesn't teach women self respect at all.