The Greater Good

The older I have gotten the more able I have become to recognize nearly immediately if a woman is capable of establishing and maintaining a relationship. By relationship I don't mean just dating, I mean having children, maintaining the household, embracing her role as a woman and not dabbling in the B.S. of the nightclub or her girlfriend's issues.

When I look at my work colleagues in the corporate world I start to realize their wives are not supermodels, nor divas, nor do they feel entitled to the world. They love their husband, take care of the children, simply ask that you not fuck every hot waitress on your business trip and eagerly pick you up from the airport with food waiting at the house. Why? Because they understand there is a greater good. There is no doubt they can go get a corporate job, a house, a car and a life equivalent if not greater than yours. But they realize a "independent, self sufficient, I can do it just as good as you can" attitude leaves them at home alone crying in their Pomegranate Martini's.

When I see my corporate buddy after work and his wife pulls up in the brick red Cayenne GTS with the 2 kids in the back waiting for him to finish his sentence I can only smile. I smile because I now understand that it is all a compromise. I am not saying go grab the first broad that is down to cook and pop out a kid. I am saying when it comes to building a life with someone you must temper your expectations. You must be prepared to both step up and step down. Step up to the plate by doing your job, being focused, realistic, walking in God. Step down from pretending you can have your cake and eat it too. You must indeed give it up for the greater good.