Relationships

I used to watch a programme called 'Men In Trees', which unfortunately ended a year or so ago.  I recently caught a few episodes of repeats, and it reminded me how much I used to love it.  Each episode ended with the main character (a relationship coach) making a statement/observation.  The final episode ends with the following statement... which on first hearing I thought was great, and when I heard it again, is still impressed me!  

We are the daughters of the feminist movement, taught from an early age that nothing can stop us... that we can rise as high, and achieve as much, as any man.  And in some ways that’s true.  We have taken great strides.  Stepping over traditional gender rolls, and going after, and getting, exactly what we want.  A part of being powerful is knowing when to take the back seat, and look at life from another perspective.  

Because the thing is, in a relationship, there is no CEO.  It’s a delicate dance, a push and pull, a back and forth, an up and down.  But we endure, because at the end of the day, we don’t want to go it alone.  

And when we find someone, a partner, we compromise.  Loving everything we can and putting blinders on to everything else.  Because love isn’t perfect.  But it’s the really great imperfect love that keeps us evolving, happy.  And it the end, isn’t that what life is all about?