Drama Central
We all know people who are in relationships and seem to do nothing but have big, blow out fights, bitch about it to everybody they know, only to get back together again. Nine out of ten people agree, people in those types of relationships are complete douchenozzles. But have you noticed, it’s always people with no personality or life that are involved in that crap? Dead end career, no apparent hobbies? They continue the cycle of drama purely so they’ll have something to talk about.
Yesterday I confessed my love of the show Jersey Shore, and I promise not to reference it too often, but in this case, a couple in the show are a good example. Sammi and Ronnie’s relationship is emotionally abusive. He constantly goes to clubs, cheats, then goes home and climbs into bed with her. He calls her a ‘bitch’ and a ‘c**t’ to her face. When she confronts him about his behaviour, he turns everything back around on her and makes it her fault. They scream and shout at each other, then get back together. In the midst of this, they get all their housemates involved by constantly rehashing the various issues they have with each other. You find yourself screaming at the screen whenever Sammi is on, telling her to get out, she’s being an idiot.
But that’s easy to say. When you look at these two individuals, neither of them are very intelligent. We never hear about their lives off the show, but I highly doubt that either of them are career minded, have good jobs or go to university. The only thing Ronnie seems interested is going to the gym, going out and getting wasted. Sammi doesn’t seem to have any interests at all. Neither of them really have much of a personality. We never hear them have deep and meaningful discussions. Their only interest seems to be breaking up, making up and getting wasted.
Granted, much of this has to do with the reality show format, but you can’t imagine it being much different off screen. And don’t we all know these people? We all know that girl who’s not too bright, doesn’t have a great job, no real ambitions, no hobbies or interests, but lands a boyfriend and ensures that her every waking moment centres around him. Why? Because she has nothing else. She can’t relate to you when you’re talking about your career goals – she has none. But she’ll gladly talk your ear off about how her boyfriend stared at another girl’s ass when they went to the cinema. No matter how bad things get, she’ll never leave him – she’d simply have nothing to talk about.
It works the same for the guy of course. A guy who maintains relationships with more than one woman at a time, is by very definition, a drama hound. He doesn’t have anything else going on with his life so if he can complicate it by a fierce and uncompromising pursuit of ass, at least he’ll have something to blab about to his friends while they discuss the stock market.
I feel bad for these people. Get a personality! Get a hobby! Get a life! If you actually did, you might find you didn’t have to stay with that douchebag to make your life more interesting. But you can’t save a damsel if she likes the distress.
