For the Love of Loyalty
I am a person who believes that they are no bad relationships unless they are in some way abusive
By Balik Whack Writer/Poet/Author
photo courtesy of Balik Whack
I can bullshit a conversation about relationships. We often as human beings can and get broken up in the Catholicism of the meaning of staying. The meaning of believing no matter what. The meaning of finishing what you started and whatever. We think we know what it takes to burrow through a relationship but find out we know nothing at all. Life is like that altogether, yet is it suppose to stop you from living.
everything within and beyond the relationship. Some of us can’t stay long enough for things to change and actually reach the point where they have exhausted all of their options. I, and a lot of
and/or stopping the process of growth of any and
As black men and women, we find ourselves hating each other or ultimately giving up on our bond that has taken hundreds of years to actually come together. One question comes to mind when I think about the issues our culture encounter. Actually it’s not a question, but a quote from a poet on a site that I frequent. "How can you stand right in front of the truth and not see it?" well, how can we? Everybody wants to weight in on relationship talk, including me, like we got the best insight from a fly on the wall prospective. The most obvious dereistic thing you can do is listen to your single friend guide you through a relationship. Especially if that person is in and out of relationships and is still bitter about it. But we do this anyway, we listen to others and the media and magazines that tell women they are people, value loyalty. This is not talking about nothing and men they will never be right. The kingmenship or glory, but it’s similar. But then biggest problem we allow ourselves to encounter again, what is loyalty? It has to be something with relationships is damage control and beyond sticking it out through the tough times. misunderstanding that what you see is what you get. Loyalty has to be more than dirty drawers and dishes and rebuilding. Loyalty is more than good How are you going to know something that you cooking, but is it more than love? Or is it love? have not seen? We’ve looked at relationships, both ours and other’s, but we haven’t really seen it. We Sometimes we mistake loyalty for love and it see familiar signs and run with that instead of makes us afraid. We’ve all been there where we’re accepting the fact that we are all different. We all either afraid to leave a relationship or too afraid to make similar decisions, but different choices. start it. Loyalty is simply faithfulness to commitment and obligations. Sometimes we’re We all live similar but different lives. We all meet afraid because it sounds to strict, but at the end of similar but different people. the day, as old as you are, you do realize your