I found an amusing video about relationships entitled “I guess you’ll do” by Mike Polk. Some people consider it as “The Sad Truth.” It basically shows what a relationship turns into in the eyes of the creator or the woman narrator or who knows. Well, I’m not entirely sure if this were to be taken seriously or if it was just a joke. But I’m sure there are some people in the world that thinks this way. Here’s an excerpt from some guy by the name of Daftgopher which basically sums it up:

The sardonic nature of this cartoon completely reduces what should be a joyful experience to a mechanized template for how to live one’s life. Do you honestly believe the next 60 years of your life are so easily reduced to some kind of mundane, depressing timeline? Do you expect your relationship with your husband/wife to be as mechanically simple as the one described here? Sometimes we forget that the journey is often richer than the destination and the small day-to-day concerns and memories shared with our loved ones constitute our joyful experiences. This cartoon treats the act of having children as a muted plot point in one’s life rather than a tremendous joy, whereas losing your bitchin’ basement bar as your friends go one to share in the joy of having kids themselves is apparently some kind of epic tragedy.

The joy of relationships is not in how much we lose in compromise - compromise is a sign of trust and appreciation for the other in the relationship. Above all, it is the absolutely honest and selfless practice of learning what makes your partner truly unique and how to care for someone besides ourselves. It’s not about scaling the loss of our personal aspirations on some hypothetical rubric - it’s about what is unquantifiable. Two people in a healthy relationship do not compromise out of despair, but out of the purest and most selfless love for the other. This is far superior to an apathetic love based on the lie of complete and fleeting infatuation. If you can find someone you can really know, learn all their ups and downs, and love them not in spite of their positives/negatives, but because of them, you’ll have a healthy relationship on your hands.

Also, if some bitch told me I was lacking in creativity and that she held similarly pessimistic views for our prospective children…well, she wouldn’t be the one having my children.