AND I'm BACK!

Snow day, in all it's wondrous glory, got my only class of the day canceled! Of course this is the same day I had registration at 7AM so no sleeping in for me. I'll fill you in now, I am in no way a morning person. I'd rather eat fried toenails than wake up before 10AM, but that's not the point. I had a few minutes to waste before I could log on, so I browsed through MSN's homage. On there I found a funny little article on how people knew that their partner wasn't "the one".

It inspired me. Mostly because I didn't like the stories in the article. I mean, a guy knew the girl wasn't it because he liked Star Wars and she said she liked Ewoks. Maybe it's just me, but that's a little shallow. Also, who doesn't love Ewoks??

So, I decided to come up with a list of reasons NOT to marry someone. Taken from my own personal life, and my hobby of living vicariously through the internet. Feel free to add your own reasons in the comments.

1. If you think you might be marrying a sugar daddy/momma, con women/man, or someone who isn't in love with you. Hugh my man, If she's 20 and you're almost 90...she's probably after more than the family jewels.

2. My favorite, marrying a "fixer upper" and betting on them changing for you. What's a fixer upper you ask? Someone who has drug, alcohol, personality, and/or anger issues. Can people change? Yes. Can you MAKE someone change? No.

3. If you aren't into the idea of marrying the next guest on Jerry Springer. Sure people can have mood swings. But when that crazy gets them landed in jail, or even better, Jerry Springer, you can bet you're going to dealing with that crazy sob for the rest of eternity. Yes, even after the divorce.

4. If you can't communicate. I'll admit it, in real life I'm not very chatty. Being able to hold a conversation with your sig. other isn't what I'm talking about though. If you two can't talk about important things, for example; what makes you upset, happy, what you want out of life. There are going to be big problems down the road. If there aren't already.

5. If you fight all the time but don't get anywhere positive. This goes back to the communication bit. If you two are throwing a scream fest every night and not accomplishing anything positive, then at the very least you need to evaluate yourselves. Or call Dr. Phil or something.

6. If they try to push your family and friends away from you for no apparent reason. Alienating you from the people who know you the best and love you, is a surefire way to a toxic relationship. Sometimes family and friends do get pushed away a little naturally as you begin a relationship, but if your partner's  insisting it's them or the fam. then there's a BIG problem. Unless your family and friends have like murdered their favorite uncle or something.

7. If they take, take, take but never give. Similar to the "fixer upper" these people can't function without you. They demand or expect you to provide them with everything from food, money, housing, to constant companionship, yet provide nothing in return.

8. If you're in a freaky marry-go-round of breaking up, and getting back together. 99.99% of the time it won't work out. In fact, if it hasn't been working out why would you assume it would be different this time? To that .01% out there, mazeltov.