Marry your best friend, some say! Well, my marital best friend would come equipped with extensive Real Housewives of Beverly Hills knowledge and an extensive skin care routine that could go easily shared. The more the merrier, am I right?
The more I consider the act of marrying another, I often get stumped by the thought of the compromises I might have to make.
Will I have to tap into some Ghandi-level patience and overlook the rogue hairs around the bathroom sink? Or try to nicely ask for the thousandth time that the toilet seat be put down? Or better yet, having to tamper my simmering rage after realizing that weaponized incompetence was once again used by my partner by them having chaotically shoved the groceries into the fridge and not following my strict organizational plan!
This may be where I realize that I am the problem, but nonetheless! I feel these are all valid reasons for postponement of a standard marriage.
It’s no longer my initial fears, though, that are causing me to take a beat when imagining committing to such a serious practice, but instead an entirely new stack of concerns I never thought I would have to consider have now been laid in front of me.
Every day since the second election of President Trump, women like myself and the entirety of the LGBTQI+ community are having their rights and existence threatened with policy rollbacks and rhetoric that is meant to dehumanize those being called out.
running its entire platform on the guise of “real masculinity,” My thoughts begin to shift into contemplating a rapidly devolving political climate that is taking women’s basic human rights apart, brick by brick.
Oh, how I miss and would die for a time much simpler than the one we are currently in! Please excuse me while I clutch my pearls and take a graceful fall onto my fainting couch.
To the young ambitious women, like myself, who perhaps have contemplated trading in the life-long marital commitment for a long term career commitment and are terrifyingly staring down the barrel of the Maga gun- I may have a solution to ease your anxieties and bring you into a world once frequented by the Hollywood elites of the “Golden Age.”
Lavender marriage! How to benefit from a patriarchal system without having to live it with the feared baggage that ultimately comes with “traditional” marriage.
