The Marriage Mill really messes with your mind. It makes you feel as if you are incomplete if you are single.
Living away from the Mill last year really got me out of the habit of sinful self-pity and doubt of God that I am not Coupled like everyone else. Now, here I am, with a Coupled person nearby. She is messing with my mind.
I'm getting back into the damn Marriage Mill Mindset. It's not true that Singles are less happy or less privileged (or uglier) or lonelier than Coupled people. THAT is a myth! I have been lonely in Couple relationships, and I have been deliriously happy as a Single.
Last year, I even had friends who are a Couple but are not obsessed about getting me through the Mill, and they shared their baby with me. So I got to experience the joy of seeing a baby grow from infancy to toddlerhood, see her wave and laugh when I walked in the room because she recognized me (that is a thrill, man), and the joy of camping with these people when the baby has a tummyache. (She kept the whole campground awake for 2 hours. Poor thing was in pain!) Babies are great and chubby and cute, but they are also fussy and coldy and poopy and dependent.
So here is an American myth: the romantic comedy. This is not real life! There is no happily ever after! Get over it, and please do not try to get me though the Mill, all you Coupled people.
I didn't even realize that I had rebounded from the sick Marriage Mill mindset till I met this just-past-college-and-I-loooooove-him friend. Don't get sucked back into once you've escaped, people. It's way too easy.
Oh, it's the mindset, not Covenant, that I think is sick. It's just that I encountered it when I was at Covenant...
Posted by: Krista at September 7, 2003 02:10 PMI think that mindset is a bizarre, Covenant female mindset. No guys I knew ever had that mindset. I think its also a mindset unique to conversative Christian females. So consider THAT sick, not Covenant college.
Posted by: JosiahQ at September 6, 2003 04:59 AM