Comments on: Is This What Passes For Love These Days? http://www.blackgirlgrown.com/2010/02/03/is-this-what-passes-for-love-these-days/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed content and context on issues facing women of color as we mature Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ms. Eye http://www.blackgirlgrown.com/2010/02/03/is-this-what-passes-for-love-these-days/comment-page-1/#comment-1456 Ms. Eye Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:36:48 +0000 http://www.blackgirlgrown.com/?p=3310#comment-1456 Adults raised on the video/xbox/BET/MTV diet behave that way. Our future is so bleak if these kids dont grow up and own their lives. Adults raised on the video/xbox/BET/MTV diet behave that way. Our future is so bleak if these kids dont grow up and own their lives.

]]> By: Ms. Eye http://www.blackgirlgrown.com/2010/02/03/is-this-what-passes-for-love-these-days/comment-page-1/#comment-1107 Ms. Eye Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:36:48 +0000 http://www.blackgirlgrown.com/?p=3310#comment-1107 Adults raised on the video/xbox/BET/MTV diet behave that way. Our future is so bleak if these kids dont grow up and own their lives. Adults raised on the video/xbox/BET/MTV diet behave that way. Our future is so bleak if these kids dont grow up and own their lives.

]]> By: Nic_Mac http://www.blackgirlgrown.com/2010/02/03/is-this-what-passes-for-love-these-days/comment-page-1/#comment-1094 Nic_Mac Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:08:27 +0000 http://www.blackgirlgrown.com/?p=3310#comment-1094 Wow... sigh. I think so though. What many folks believe love is, or how love behaves... often comes down to disjointed, dysfunctional moments just like this. I remember overhearing a conversation between a couple "in love"... and their dysfunction centered around her man wanting to continue to share her with his fraternity brothers. She was finally getting tired of proving her love to him by sleeping with his boys. I was dumbfounded and my heart hurt to hear the conversation. For many, the price of having a significant other is worth the cost of dignity, sanity and safety. <br><br>I'm just not one of those folks. Wow… sigh. I think so though. What many folks believe love is, or how love behaves… often comes down to disjointed, dysfunctional moments just like this. I remember overhearing a conversation between a couple “in love”… and their dysfunction centered around her man wanting to continue to share her with his fraternity brothers. She was finally getting tired of proving her love to him by sleeping with his boys. I was dumbfounded and my heart hurt to hear the conversation. For many, the price of having a significant other is worth the cost of dignity, sanity and safety.

I'm just not one of those folks.

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