Engaged and…Enraged?
To many people, the end of “singledom” officially hits when you get married. So, when the engagement is underway…it’s all downhill from there (or perhaps uphill, depending on whether or not you were at the top of the hill or the bottom to begin with.)
My best friend of eight years was proposed to by a lovely man she has been dating for almost two years. After getting a phone call from her while she was mid- sobbing, I could hear the shock in her voice. She knew it was coming, they talked about it, she damn-well near picked out her own ring… but he somehow still managed to catch her off guard.
My automatic comparison? “It’s like cancer and death,” I told my boyfriend. “They go hand in hand most of the time. And even when you know your loved one has cancer and will probably die, the minute they do you are still overwhelmed with feelings of sadness and shock.”
Then I realized that I had just compared getting married to having cancer. Hmm, I wonder if I’ll be getting married anytime soon! That’s a big fat “no.”
