I watched the Vow tonight. A very chick flick indeed and I didn’t force MDP to sit through that. I liked it on some levels (if Channing Tatum tells you he is your husband tell him okay…and then ask him to see him with his shirt off :P ). I didn’t like it for the fact that it once again sets women up for the idea that men are supposed to repeatedly pledge their undying love for them and do quirky soap opera type love gestures and that somehow their relationship is horrible if this doesn’t happen. But what I liked was that through it all, the memory loss, she may have reverted back to her old self at first, that in the end what she was before the accident occurred started to shine through. As I start my journey into a new decade in the coming months it often comes with reflection. And while some may say I might have had a mid-life crisis of sorts getting divorced, starting a new career, etc ( I left out the 5K to marathon/triathlon and eating Paleo that the rest of my mid-life … [Read more...]
