My boyfriend’s friend has been dating this chick. She’s friendly and attractive: tall, lean, slim waist, and long, silky hair. After two months, she has her name on the lease of “their” new apartment. He’s going to get a new car, so she can drive his pimped-out truck. The latest development is that she wants a pair of new titties. I wouldn’t be surprised if he ended up paying for it.
I used to get mad at girls like her. She wants a princess lifestyle, but she has a middle-income budget. So she finds some guy who makes a little or a lot more money than she does. She probably figures it’s a fair trade. He gets a nice piece of arm candy, and she gets to stock up on Coach and Louis Vitton purses. You can hear the cha-ching of the cash register when she spreads her legs.
I’ve heard him bitch about how she’s not putting enough money into their new place. How he’s buying all the large items and she’s just getting tablemats from Target. He’s been bitching to his buddies about how much money he’s spending on her. Then she appears, and suddenly it’s another story. He’s telling her that he wants to make a home for her. He wants to get her everything she wants and desires.
I realized that I’ve been blaming the wrong person. She’s part of the problem, but she doesn’t deserve all the blame. He wants to play the victim card. He gripes to his friends about how he’s putting more into the relationship. He bitches and moans about how he’s doing so much and she’s not doing enough. Then he goes home, pulls out the credit card, and does the same thing over and over again.
If he feels like he is being short-changed, he should grow some balls and learn how to say no. He could find himself an independent woman who can buy her own shiny trinkets and designer shoes. Instead he stays and complains and ends up being jaded against most women.
This is the problem with the Cinderella/Prince Charming phenomenon. Some men want to be the knight in shining armor coming to take care of his princess, and some women think they deserve the easy lifestyle. I think it’s time to get away from that myth. Happy endings are overrated anyway. Prince Charming was probably a mama’s boy who couldn’t handle a strong woman. Cinderella was probably a frigid bitch, pretty on the outside and cold on the inside. Everyone should have partied with the ugly step-sisters. They were probably the wild, kinky freaks behind closed doors.
H. Kim Lee is the pen name of a writer in Garden Grove, California. Her stories have appeared on Literotica, ThugLit.com, and Superbadass.net.