Fairytales

Fairy tales just aren't real.

I've never seen a pregnant out-of-wedlock woman (nevertheless princess), a divorced couple, an abuse case, or a "blended family" on any Disney movies. But yet that's what there is.

There is no Prince Charming, there is no one to come rescue you from a bad situation, there is no breaking out into song. Maybe there is a reason you don't typically see Disney make any movies that show the couple after that wedding kiss (except for The Princess and The Frog) or a couple with kids.

Nobody tells you what marriage and life can be like, should be like, or what it sure-as-hell-shouldn't be like. Fairy tales are just fantasies. Even if you have that wedded-bliss crap, it doesn't last long and when it stops and real life starts--it ain't singing and dancing anymore.

You fight over the toilet paper, the toothpaste, who does the dishes, where to put your socks, who mows the lawn. You fight over how one parents the child, how they speak to you, how they make you feel like the worst person in the world, how there's never enough sex, and even how one doesn't do enough for the other. That isn't a fairytale I've ever heard.

In fairytales there are princes that are gorgeous, well built, and have great clothes and manners. There are princesses that might have started off at the bottom but in secret they are beautiful, good singers, and are dainty, sweet, perfectly sculpted women. Ha, that's all I have to say. The man takes one look at a woman and finds her irresistible, not for sex but for her love. He takes her into his arms and looks deep into her eyes and kisses her passionately, again not because sex is on his mind (maybe it is) but because that's how deeply he is in love with her.

Where is that in the real world?

If you have one of those relationships, I'm extremely happy that you're one of the Disney princesses who found their prince, and I hope for nothing less for you.

Obviously, I'm not one of those princesses. Therefore, I have all but given up on those fairytales. I have caught myself scoffing at the love scenes in movies, changing the channel on that amazing, love inspired kiss, and I've even taken to watching movies with other plots than 2 people falling in love. I know there is real love out there, I just haven't experienced it.