Sunday, March 2, 2008

Readers Response: MODERN LOVE; Take me as I am, Whoever I am by Terri Cheney and Maturity Was Just Too Messy for Me by Peter Levine

In the MODERN LOVE reading, this story seems to be about a bipolar woman is trying to find love or wants to be in love but can not find the person she really is and therefore can not be truly happy in love because she feels that you should be able to tell the person who you are and what you are about and she just does not know who she is as a person. She was being put into crazy situations that she felt like she could not subdue or fix because she was two people. She had up and down times and she felt that this was the reason she could not find love. I liked this story because it seems to show how knowing yourself can help somebody get to know you much more easily. It also makes you feel better about yourself and makes you want to feel vulnerable and let somebody else love you. No matter what kind of person you are thought to be( bipolar, crazy, wierd, mentally ill), that you do have feelings to and are entitled to feeling loved by somebody.

In Maturity Was Just Too Messy for Me, this young man comes on to an older lady and they ultimately begin dating. It is usually many young mens fantasies to date an older woman, so I understood why he was so excited about dating this older woman. She is a little stand-off ish at first and declines anything more than just being friends and as young men do, he insisted upon it. He found that although she was older, she had extra baggage that he did not want to carry. She had kids, an ex husband and would attempt to drink her pain away. When she got so drunk that she could not even walk, he called a quits to that relationship which was probably the best decision he could have made. This shows that age is nothing but a number, but the level of maturity can usually become an issue if two people are not at the same level. This woman had a law degree and still got so drunk to the point where she could not stand and let alone walk down a stone walkway. Men may want to fullfill certain fantasies, but i think all men want a young lady to be seen in public and not a drunk or belligerent female. It was good that they are still friends and she can offer him insight and give him advice and he can give her advice on her kids. The friendship will probably go further than trying to be in a relationship with someone so much older but far less mature.

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