Relationships

A Little Too Open Minded?

How was your weekend?

Mine was low key with nothing spectacular and blog worthy so I am going to pose a question to you that I have pondered a bit since having a conversation with a friend of mine.

I rarely, okay practically never bring *whispers* the S word around here but lets talk a bit today. Not about that in specific but kinda sort of. Stay with me.

Something was brought to my attention regarding the looking at and partaking of inappropriate images. Use your imagination if you will. The conversation stemmed around husbands or boyfriends taking a peek at other women’s lady parts and rear ends via lets say a magazine, website, “scrip club”, something of the like.

The question was posed to me regarding would I care if my Mr. decided to participate in visual fantasies.

If you’ve been around here long enough you probably know the answer and if you don’t know let me tell you. I. Don’t. Care. Not only do I not care but I don’t understand women who have a problem with this.

Now I understand from a mysogny, moral and religious standpoint why some people have issue with this and I get that but removing that from the equation why would someone find this a problem? I find most people don’t often list the aforementioned as their disdain with said behaviors, but rather don’t want their man looking at or lusting if you will at another woman.

I have been known to throw caution to the wind on things that send most people in a tail spin and go bonkers while others have their feet up. I’m wired a little different but I like to see what makes other people tick.

In MY opinion insecurities are what cause these things to become issues in relationships. Now I’m not talking about him being at a point where he needs help with an addiction, I’m just talking about a peek here, a once a year trip to the Gentleman’s Club with some homies that came in town, those every now and then moments.

I tend to think when women put limits on things like that, it leads to sneaky behavior. Let’s be honest you can tell someone all day what you don’t want them to do but if they really want to do it…guess what. I would rather compromise and agree to disagree than to have him going behind my back. It’s the sneaky behaviors that lead to questionable behavior in my thoughts. I find so many woman are closed up with their sexuality that maybe their man uses that as a coping mechanism to keep from cheating? Am I stretching?

What’s your take?

Fashion Mama Style Wardrobe Wednesday

Escaping a Style Rut…Part II

 

Purging. Taking Inventory. Shopping for the Basics.  Did you miss class last week? Click here for Part I.

As stated last week the basics are so important and are extremely necessary to build a strong, quality base for a stylish wardrobe.

We’ll look at a few options today from three different pricing points.

Good. Better. Best.

Children Lil Man Parenting Rant

Instagram and A Six Year Old

The delicate subject of parenting in this age of social media, and technology is starting to rear its ugly head in this little home in a southern ‘burb of the A.T.L.

I just had a bad feeling about my son getting that iPod from my father from the very beginning. Mother’s intuition anyone? My father insisted it was equivalent to the Gameboy that he purchased for me when I was just a hair older than my son is now. My argument was WiFi probably wasn’t even thought of at that time, and there wasn’t much damage that I could do sticking a Tetris cartridge in it except playing it until my thumbs were sore.

I had to deliberately explain to him that my son would be able to access the internet and its crazies and potentially download apps that would show up as charges on my debit card. To ease my nerves he said he would have a talk with him about internet safety and not to download any apps without my permission.

Marriage Relationships The Mr.

SEVEN

September 2nd marks seven years that the Mr. and I have been married. The road has been long, bumpy, narrow, wide, and non existent at times but I am happy to say that it is now paved with asphalt and we have truly reached that point in our marriage where I would like to believe that nothing can break us.

I rarely speak about the Mr. in this space because he is some what private, not to mention I have something with people who are always talking about how spectacular their significant other is. I always feel like they are trying to convince themselves instead of me. That’s another story for another day. Kind of like no one goes around saying how awesome wives and mothers are because its expected…

I digress.

Well, I came up with the ingenious idea to have the Mr. and myself list out 7 things we have learned during this journey that has contributed to the current state of happiness within our marriage.

Keep in mind we are not experts!