Marriage Counseling Conspiracy

I don't think I have ever really been a conspiracy theorist but something smells funny around these parts.

If you have been reading this blog then you know that I have been attending marriage counseling the last few weeks. You also know that our counselor has the ability to find this blog thanks to my lovely better half so I guess I must be somewhat gentle in these counseling related posts so that my 'anger' is not overly psychoanalyzed. I don't want to be profiled as the 'angry black man.'

Just as a side note marriage counseling provides my wife with this checklist. If I don't do something that is on her checklist then she just says, "We need to talk to the counselor about this." About what? since when is counseling supposed to be about leverage.......I ain't scared. OK, I decided not to brush my teeth today. Does that mean we have to talk about it in counseling or does it mean that you might not want to be directly in my face talking today?

Back to the point of this message. I have found out through the grapevine that two couples that we are friends with are also going to marriage counseling. HMMMMMM, very interesting. How is it that 3 couples that know each other pretty well all start counseling at about the same time? Coincidence????? I think not!

My wife can tell me what ever she wants to but this is not coincidence. I can see it now. They are having lunch somewhere and one of them says that they are going to counseling and the others thinking, "Ughmmm, if they are going to counseling then surely we should be in counseling."

Then she says who is your counselor? They exchange information and the rest is history. I wonder if we get some group bulk rate. Maybe we could all go to counseling together and have group therapy. Now I would be open to that! That would be fun because at least one or both of the husbands are widely acknowledged to be bigger assholes than me. Outside of my house of course!

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44Black

Random Political Thoughts

So George Bush even thought that Sarah Palin was under qualified to be Vice-President. In the new book "Speech-less: Tales of a White House Survivor" by Matt Latimer, Bush is quoted as saying, "This woman is being put in a position she is not even remotely prepared for." He also is quoted as saying, "What is she, the governor of Guam?"

Bush was not even close to being my favorite President but he was funny and entertaining. I'd love to have a beer with him, he seems like a fun guy. We got him sober, imagine how fun it would have been had we got the partying George W. Bush. A partying Clinton, and then a partying Bush right after might have been too much for our country.

One thing is for sure, Former President George W. Bush is certainly someone who knows about people who are under qualified for jobs!

It's one thing to write our opinions and have a little fun at the expense of some of our leaders. It is another when these people are boldly disrespectful....especially to the President. I think U.S. Rep Joe Wilson should be kicked out of the House of Representatives. Calling President Obama a 'liar' is disrespectful on its' own, but doing it in front of a national audience during a speech, sends a signal that it is OK to disrespect this Black man, even if he is President of the United States.

Even former President Jimmy Carter agrees. "I think it's based on racism," Carter said at a town hall held at his presidential center in Atlanta. "There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president."

"Those kind of things are not just casual outcomes of a sincere debate on whether we should have a national program on health care," he said. "It's deeper than that."

“I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he is African-American," Carter said.
“Racism ... still exists and I think it has bubbled up to the surface because of a belief among many white people, not just in the south but around the country, that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country. It’s an abominable circumstance and grieves me and concerns me very deeply,” Carter told NBC News.

It troubles me also. At least finally some significant Whites are protesting the health care debate and whether or not it is a debate on race. It is clearly a debate on race.

The disrespect for the Presidency really troubles me. Even if you set race aside it is still an issue. President Nixon disrespected the office with his actions as did President Clinton. Someone even threw shoes at President Bush, a symbol of disrespect in that culture. What happened to that guy anyway? We never heard anything else about that guy. They might have shot him.

Joe Wilson is a punk!

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Couseling Continues

OK, we had our 3rd marriage counseling session today. It was a constructive session until the end when my wife went too far. She told the counselor that I have a blog and that I blog about our counseling.

I thought to myself, "Come on woman is there anything that is sacred?"

Apparently not, so I had to give him the blog site. It's like your pastor finding out that you have a subscription to Playboy. Or better yet like your mom finding beer bottles in your bottom drawer as a senior in high school.

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There is nothing better when a guy goes down at the top of his game and people question if he can come back and be the man he was. It gives him the opportunity to find out what he is made of.

Tom Brady led his team to a comeback win over the Bills last night and He did it in the pre-injury Tom Brady fashion. I know it is just one game but, I think he is back and he appreciates being back. In interviews, he has expressed his appreciation for being a part of the game and how no player including himself is bigger than the game. He has also expressed the need to earn the respect of his teammates so that they would allow him to lead them.

Refreshing, lessons for life.

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I'm Out!

44Black

10 Minutes of Fun

If marriage counseling is not your idea does that mean you will be the one to get gut punched every time you walk in there? I think it does.

Last week our assignment was to list 15 things that we could do for the other person. I spent time on it then we did nothing with it????????

This week we are supposed to have fun together for 10 minutes a day. What can you do for fun in 10 minutes? Sex? Then what do you do for the other 7 minutes?

Fun takes time. I can't scratch my butt in 10 minutes.

Seriously, the counseling has been beneficial.

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Marriage Counseling WTF?????

Today is our first day of marriage counseling, WTF?????? Yea, marriage counseling. Apparently, I am the devil. Admittedly, I have done some stupid things, and we have disagreed on some things but marriage counseling? It seems to be a little much to me.

I guess I have some things to gripe about too, but I don't feel the need to gripe to someone else about it. I'm not sure how we go to this point, going to counseling that is. Even when we aren't getting along we seem to get along OK. Maybe I'm dumb though. Dumb and the Devil......not a good combination.

I'm not sure what I am in for. My wife is a closet attorney (that means she watches Law and Order around the clock) so she will come extremely prepared for this first session. I feel like a lamb being led to slaughter. On top of my obvious indiscretions I am sure she will have photos of me drinking directly out of the Orange Juice jug when I think no one is around. Or photos of me when I'm looking at her underwear in the laundry basket. Clean underwear if you are wondering, I'm not that nasty.

She will have a stack of documents and instances where I have betrayed her, been insensitive or ignored her. Me? I will just be there dick in hand waiting to be smacked around by my wife and what I am sure is some sort of feminist sympathizer of a counselor. I had no input on who the counselor is so I am sure she has stacked the deck there too. I am so screwed! It's like I am the halfway insane, but sane enough to defend myself defendant in court. The prosecutor comes in with three attorneys, each with briefcases full of documents to prove my guilt. Each one of them has a law clerk carrying boxes of evidence that will lead to my conviction. Me? I have one document that says, "HELP" on it. I think I'm in trouble.

I love my wife so I am going to dive on this grenade. My strategy is to let her go first. Just like on Law and Order the prosecutor goes first. Then I will come back and complain about some stuff after defending myself. Problem is the prosecution in this case may take 6 months because I am the devil after all and there will be plenty to bitch about.

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I'm Out!
44Black