This has been a LONG time coming. So, back story- Adele has this song called "Someone Like You" and unless you just don't know me, you know this is my LEAST favorite song in the history of mankind. (Worse than any 80's song of my mom's I was subjected to as a small child.) Pandora uses every chance to show they hate me by playing it during random playlists. Disney Children's Songs Playlist, really Pandora? And it is usually while I have something on my hands and can't click the dislike button, or after I have used all my skips for the hour. Anyway, yes, it is my least favorite song. To me Adele summarizes the epitome of what is wrong with women today. Let's do a lyrical break down of some of the epic gems in this song. (As much as this angers and pains me...)
"I heard that you're settled down. That you've found a girl and you're married now."  Right off the bat, she knows he is a happily married man, completely over her, and here she comes to stir up trouble. Why? Because later as she says "I hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded that for me it isn't over." Crazy, crazy woman. However, not crazy as much as she is real. This happens all the time, daily. Women think they are entitled to whoever they want, whenever they want. I have a news flash. He's not yours anymore. He is happy, he HAS forgotten you, and stop showing up "out of the blue, uninvited." Ladies, rule number one, PROTECT your man. There are a bunch of crazy, psycho women that empower themselves with Adele's song and then feel like it's ok to throw themselves at your man. And it's not just attractive girls. No, attractive, NICE, girls know how to handle themselves, and they will respect your relationship, because they respect themselves. Semi-attractive, but disgustingly slutty girls can't keep a relationship, so they are happy to meddle with other peoples relationships too, to find their own "happiness." But the real threats are the Adele types. Look at her. She looks harmless like she should have her own cooking show and be on the bottle of bar-b-que sauce or something. Wrong, she is a threat because she is an emotional mess and she does two things- Tries to make your man feel needed and tries to make your man feel attractive. (Because he is needed and attractive, but only you get to make him feel that way.) They build "harmless" friendships with your man. Use him for emotional support. Or they feel like they can come around whenever they want just to give him a hug and say "hi." Wrong. No matter how much you trust your man and no matter how faithful he is, you protect him, because the risk isn't with him, it's with her. So, Adele, he is not shy, he is happy and he really doesn't want to be around you, because you are no longer friends. Also, you will never find someone like him. Why? Because you are still stalking him, trying to break up a happy relationship, and there is no one else like him. Yes, sometimes it hurts instead-for you. Moral of the rant? Protect your relationship and avoid listening to Adele.

"Today, I looked at my beautiful wife Chelsea and thought to myself, "If she had the chance to do it all over again, would she still marry me?" I hope so. When I first met Chelsea, she was intoxicatingly lovely (still is). She captured my heart, my imagination, and all my affection. I was only 19 then, but I had enough sense to know to set the hook and ask her to marry me quickly, or someone else would. On our marriage day, I knew that when I walked away from the altar, I received a better half than she did. She married a young man who needed lots of maturing in grace. Fortunately, she could see God at work in my life. God saw my great need and had mercy on me. Jesus came to me when I wasn't looking for Him, looked upon me when I was looking everywhere else, and with a power and love that only He could employ, began to conquer my selfishness, stubbornness, and sinfulness, turning my heart to Jesus. Maybe on our anniversary I'll ask Chelsea that question, but until then, I'll keep working on becoming the man she'd never want to replace."

I was watching an interview this morning on Kylie Bisutti, a 21yr old who quit her career to be more honoring to her husband and to the Lord. The interview is excellent. (The video footage that plays while she is talking-not so much.) Here is this young lady, just a few months older than me, with a modeling career with Victoria Secret. Once a position she fought hard to achieve, and now bowing out to seek a more wholesome dream. "The California native beat out 10,000 hopefuls in 2009 to win the Victoria’s Secret Model Search. She was 19 and recently married at the time." This idea that she would give up her career to reserve her body for her husband must be a foreign concept to our society. Boldly sharing that her decision is based off of her strong faith and her love for her husband is a double blow to our feminist minded culture. The reason why this story is receiving so much attention is because people can't understand the conviction to honor marriage and growing in your faith. However, she says she would like to be a role model for others. I think she is becoming a role model in more ways than she realizes. Daily women let their marriages crumble as they pursue their dreams and their careers. This woman gave up a career she beat out 10,000 people for, for the sake of protecting her marriage, and that's what it takes. To honor it above all else.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2012/02/victorias-secret-model-quits-to-reserve-body-for-my-husband/