Jackpot!!

Some of my favorite nights are the nights I spend out drinking with the girls. It is usually an interesting mix of characters. They come from all over. Greece, Holland, Germany, Austria, England, Canada, you name it. Age doesnt matter either, the youngest that ever came out with us was 18, the oldest way in her 60's. The only thing we all demand is a positive attitude and a big time party mood.

Most of us have got kids, some have husbands or boyfriends, so we can not start early, dinner has to be taken care of beforehand. 10 o clock is our time though. We drink, we dance, we drink some more and we talk. About everything. Economics, religion, politics, friends in trouble and men. If I am excruciatingly honest, which I intend to be, we mostly talk about men. Sorry guys.

One of these fairly recent nights started me looking at the subject from a different point of view. First of all I thought it was amazing how the coupled friends supported their spouses. Mind you, I used to do the same. Unbelievable loyalty and love dripped off their words: Í don't mind getting him his coffee (5 times a day I was guessing) he works so hard. Or 'He needs to be able to unwind with his friends after work' Yeah like every day. 'It's my fault he's getting fat, I don't cook healthy enough' Of course he's shoving it down his face with a gun held against his head. It got me thinking. Cause, you see, most of these friends of mine have a full-time job that pays for a hell of a lot of bills and has the family insured. And most of these friends have a couple of kids to tend too. All of them cook everyday and a good 75% of them takes care of the household on their own. And when they are not doing that they are playing taxi driver getting the kids to school or to karate or to music lessons or to english class 3 bloody times a week. If there are no kids involved I am assuring you they are taking care of other important couple business like the tax returns or the rent subsidies or the shit tank emptied or the washing machine fixed. While they bring him his coffee.

Let's also mention finances. How many times have I heard: Well, we can't really afford it but he really needs a new computer, a new television, a new play station. To do what girls, to be on Facebook, watch high definition world cup football and play Mario Karts simultaneously?? NOT!
Wake up and get a grip. They can't find clean socks and get dressed at the same time, how could they possibly manage all of the above! You work for it ladies, you deserve more. A nice haircut now and then, a day at the Spa, those gorgeous new shoes, more nights out with the girls. 'Cause you know what, while you're running around like an idiot taking care of things, he's eyeing that cute, carefree, well polished and well dressed girl that has her life in order. Forgetting totally that you once were that girl, the one he fell in love with and whom he has now transformed into his mother!

So girls, get your lives back, or, for the lucky ones, the girls I know that have a great spouse, that do have a rock they can lean on, the girls that do feel loved and supported: Get your toe nails painted hot red, loose those extra pounds, spray on his favorite perfume and put on a sexy dress now and then, for you have hit the jackpot and he deserves it.