Marriage is like a phone call in the night. First the ring, then you wake up. Well, this seems to have been clearly demonstrated by the recent news that the Desperate Housewives actress Eva Longoria, 35, and her husband of three years are getting a divorce. Apparently, roving-eye Tony Parker, who is seven years her junior, had been exchanging personal texts with a mutual female friend for nearly a year. Eva confided to her friend that Parker had previously cheated on her with another woman during their marriage.
We can all recall how elated the pint-sized actress was when she was engaged and later married to the NBA basketball star in the summer of 2007. To say that all the descendants of Adam - the male species – were not wishing to drown in their kitchen sinks at these unfolding events would be litigious. It goes without saying that they all wished to be the proverbial prince walking the beauty down the aisle.
Having been married before, Eva was quoted as having admitted that she was a terrible wife and wasn’t exactly ready to be a wife when she got hitched to actor Tyler Christopher, now 38, in 2002. The union lasted two years. I guess you could have blamed it on her naivety and young age. However, after having a failed marriage, she had definitely learnt major lessons on the dos and don’ts of a marriage institution. She had learnt all ropes of the trade. During her second (now failed) marriage, she had this to say, “I’m very domestic, constantly sewing, cooking and cleaning. I cook everyday for him.” Yeah, Ms Longoria really took great care of her man.
At this juncture, I’ll ask the all too frequently asked question, what do men really want? I mean, Eva performed all her domestic responsibilities satisfactorily, is beautiful, maintained her figure, got along well with her in-laws and was generally a model wife, one to emulate. This is a woman who was even willing to quit the U.S and move to Tony’s homeland of France where he was born! Clearly, even if a real angel drops down from heaven for marriage, a man will still cheat on her!
Why should you waste each other’s precious years of existence and then throw them to the dogs? In the case of a woman, age is never really on her side. Look at Eva for example. She is 35. She hoped to start having some Tonylets from next year, but with the turn of events, she is starting to file a divorce suit instead. What a sorry world we live in.
During a recent banter, someone remarked, “I understand that marriage is an institution; but tell me, who wants to live in an institution all his/her life?” With reference to this case study, I’m starting to think they had a point. What’s the point of immersing yourself in the covenant of marriage if you know very well that you don’t have what it takes to make such a union work?! Let me not even get started with the past-tense union of Halle Berry and Eric Benet.
We can all recall how elated the pint-sized actress was when she was engaged and later married to the NBA basketball star in the summer of 2007. To say that all the descendants of Adam - the male species – were not wishing to drown in their kitchen sinks at these unfolding events would be litigious. It goes without saying that they all wished to be the proverbial prince walking the beauty down the aisle.
Having been married before, Eva was quoted as having admitted that she was a terrible wife and wasn’t exactly ready to be a wife when she got hitched to actor Tyler Christopher, now 38, in 2002. The union lasted two years. I guess you could have blamed it on her naivety and young age. However, after having a failed marriage, she had definitely learnt major lessons on the dos and don’ts of a marriage institution. She had learnt all ropes of the trade. During her second (now failed) marriage, she had this to say, “I’m very domestic, constantly sewing, cooking and cleaning. I cook everyday for him.” Yeah, Ms Longoria really took great care of her man.
At this juncture, I’ll ask the all too frequently asked question, what do men really want? I mean, Eva performed all her domestic responsibilities satisfactorily, is beautiful, maintained her figure, got along well with her in-laws and was generally a model wife, one to emulate. This is a woman who was even willing to quit the U.S and move to Tony’s homeland of France where he was born! Clearly, even if a real angel drops down from heaven for marriage, a man will still cheat on her!
Why should you waste each other’s precious years of existence and then throw them to the dogs? In the case of a woman, age is never really on her side. Look at Eva for example. She is 35. She hoped to start having some Tonylets from next year, but with the turn of events, she is starting to file a divorce suit instead. What a sorry world we live in.
During a recent banter, someone remarked, “I understand that marriage is an institution; but tell me, who wants to live in an institution all his/her life?” With reference to this case study, I’m starting to think they had a point. What’s the point of immersing yourself in the covenant of marriage if you know very well that you don’t have what it takes to make such a union work?! Let me not even get started with the past-tense union of Halle Berry and Eric Benet.
What’s my parting shot? Well, as one blogger put it, real heroes are the men who know the value of loving one woman faithfully for life despite the presence of hundreds of other beautiful women, and learning to overcome lust and rising above their lower instincts to higher levels of dignity. Enough said.
