Writing Challenges

She was raised to serve, to give care to make others as comfortable as possible.  Up early to prep food: breakfast, lunch, dinner.  Feed the dog, pick veggies from the garden, cut up your fruit, fill the sugar bowl.  

She does the dishes because no one does them better or faster than her.  She knows the right way.  You can't help her. You can't serve her. 

There was a time when people felt oppressed, stuck in marriages they entered as it was the 'right thing to do.' Society evolved. Men and women can experiment before getting married -- or not marry at all.  Sexual partners are something to tick off a list, the more the better, like collecting beanie babies or stamps on a passport. 

But now we see headlines like the one above.  And we're supposed to go, "Awww, shucks.  Poor gal." What a horrible dilemma. 

I'm not one for buttoned-up morality and clucking one's tongue for not following the straight and narrow.  But...can we speak honestly?  Can we bring back some sort of standards of behavior? 

This is a completely avoidable situation. Don't sleep with another man when you're in love with another! You've now damaged 3, maybe 4 lives: yours, the father, possibly the man you love, and most importantly -- that baby! This is a tragedy, a horror, an absolute preventable path of misery.  And it shouldn't be ok. It shouldn't be on the cover of a tabloid to garner sympathy for the young mother.