Thursday, 21 March 2013

Are They Planets or Nuts....

My bloggy BFF is having a baby.........(pause because I still get excited for her when I mention it).......In the mean time she is going through what all mums do; Baby Brain. Why this isn't an official clinical condition I don't know!! So during the course of this debilitating condition, where she will be surrendering as many functional brain cells as possible to her developing child, the only known treatment is to limit multi-tasking. You can read more about how the treatment is going here where you can also hear about her call to share our nuts at the same time! You ready for my nuts??

Prince Charming Conundrum

I spent most of my childhood imagining and dreaming about the day my Prince Charming would ride in and sweep me off my feet. The day when I would be special; the centre of someones universe. I had the wedding dress planned even before I fell for the Other Half, which is some feat given how long we have been together.

Are we all waiting for our Prince to ride in on his steed? Is this what every girl wishes on the stars for? Do we wish for love and to be the centre of someones universe? Will we ever get it?

The reality? Your prince may arrive but he is the centre of your universe too and you end up spinning around each other. There are compromises to be made. The things you do are for mutual benefit. Then your universe experiences it's own big bang and your planets  re-align. They begin to spin not around each other but on the same orbit around the infant planets that have just been born.

Life and love take work and Prince Charming doesn't exist. This is a life lesson that we need to learn. You will never be the centre of someones universe because you will want to light theirs too. So why do we still swoon over films where the boy gets the girl? Where the boy sweeps her off her feet and they live happily ever after? Do we still secretly wish on a star that we could be whisked away?

Did Disney set me up for disappointment at an early age? Or is the definition of Prince Charming more flexible than we are lead to believe?


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6 comments:

  1. Marianne21 March 2013 at 01:36

    Love this! Disney expectations are a monkey we all need to get off our backs! No offense, Bubbles.

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    1. Sleepy Joe31 March 2013 at 22:06

      If Disney films stopped after the first five minutes (the part where they let you know life is not fair) they would provide us with healthy expectations. (she says after watching the Disney Movie channel, lmao!)

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  2. Larissa T.21 March 2013 at 23:27

    ... wait.. so Flynn Rider isn't going to come and sweep me off my feet and we won't ride off into the sunset on Maximus? *sigh*

    Thanks for linking up!

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    1. Sleepy Joe31 March 2013 at 22:07

      Oh, I don't know. You may find your Flynn....he is definitely not your run of the mill perfect Prince C ;-)

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  3. Masked Mom29 March 2013 at 00:23

    You have touched on one of my own "pet" topics--I feel like a lot of the "romantic" fairy tales and stories actually contribute to unrealistic expectations that cause very real problems in real-life relationships. It's easy to debunk them on an intellectual level--to say you realize they're unrealistic, etc but less easy to remove them from the practically cellular level at which they're embedded in our subconscious from a young age. As someone who has been married for 26 years to someone I had known only six months at the time of our wedding, I've had A LOT of time to explore the hazards of unrealistic expectations. :)

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    1. Sleepy Joe31 March 2013 at 22:08

      Yeah, forget the rambling post and skip to this comment....what she said ;-)

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