Apparently...you need more than love.
I always thought that the thoughts I had about love and marriage were tainted because of all the disney movies I grew up idolizing. That because I came from a broken family and a loveless divorce, before I was even old enough to know what the issues were, and with goals and dreams of a passionate marriage based on love at first sight, with tendencies of loving someone more and more as you aged and died side by side, my visions were very altered.
Even as I got older and sat glued to the TV watching Home Improvement and old classics like I Love Lucy, I was always reminded: "this is just TV show. None of these close nit family issues really exist and the grass is always greener."
I don't even consider myself a romantic comedy buff HOWEVER
I truly was inspired and hopeful (more hopeful for love than I had never felt) when I began to watch jon and kate plus 8 last summer. I have become very obsessed with this show and the values I have learned from it. It helped me believe that all these hippie ideals I held were true, and the family dreams I have always had are actually quite genuine! They do exist! It is possible! I have been criticized in openly admitting this, but reading Kate's book helped me accept a lot of the christian values my family raised me on and I rebelled against. I have a better understanding of some points of organized religion. It isn't evil and it does not have any other motives besides EMBRACING LOVE!! and realizing that the values of family are what come first and who we should always have faith in.
I don't have faith in much now. Maybe this was just another reality TV show and maybe I am just a little TOO hopeful. But hope was not a word I commonly related with until I saw the bond between Jon and Kate Gosselin.
Now I don't have much at all to support my views. And I fear marriage and its challenges and the rates of divorce more than ever before. Pathetic.
Even as I got older and sat glued to the TV watching Home Improvement and old classics like I Love Lucy, I was always reminded: "this is just TV show. None of these close nit family issues really exist and the grass is always greener."
I don't even consider myself a romantic comedy buff HOWEVER
I truly was inspired and hopeful (more hopeful for love than I had never felt) when I began to watch jon and kate plus 8 last summer. I have become very obsessed with this show and the values I have learned from it. It helped me believe that all these hippie ideals I held were true, and the family dreams I have always had are actually quite genuine! They do exist! It is possible! I have been criticized in openly admitting this, but reading Kate's book helped me accept a lot of the christian values my family raised me on and I rebelled against. I have a better understanding of some points of organized religion. It isn't evil and it does not have any other motives besides EMBRACING LOVE!! and realizing that the values of family are what come first and who we should always have faith in.
I don't have faith in much now. Maybe this was just another reality TV show and maybe I am just a little TOO hopeful. But hope was not a word I commonly related with until I saw the bond between Jon and Kate Gosselin.
Now I don't have much at all to support my views. And I fear marriage and its challenges and the rates of divorce more than ever before. Pathetic.