Black Relationships : LADIES: A Question

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    jamesfrmphilly PREMIUM MEMBER

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    you must b new here......

    you see, Kemetstry knows everything......
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    Who'da thunk it!







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    LMAO :glasses: :SuN033:

    I did no such thing.

    No occassionaly, I would probe to flesh out a point of view. But your opening statenment are very telling.
















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    I dont know Everything

    But I do know this...

    No, I wasn't. My view of a man in my life was not framed from any White cultural influence but from my own environment and life experiences.

    I was reared by single women in my life. And the ruling tenet in my house was "God Bless The Child That's Got His/Her Own."

    In my formative community, I saw two-parent homes with physically and verbally abusive fathers, alcoholic fathers and drug-dealer fathers, etc..

    As a young child, I remember looking at my friends/neighbors who had such fathers and thought if THAT was what having a father was, I was glad I didn't have one cuz we didn't have cussing and screaming and fighting and calling the police and running from abuse in my house.

    But my mother taught her daughters what a man will do who loves you and respects you and not to be ever dependent on a man, to "bring something to the table," and know that you can make it with him or without him cuz "love" don't pay the bills.

    I had no grandfathers or uncles to look to for guidance. So, my only immediate example of men were my brothers, and I did look up to them. The rest, I had to figure out on my own by trial and error.

    So, no, I never had the "Cinderella Complex" thinking a man was my "Prince Charming" or "Gallant Knight."

    But, as I matured I learned that all men are not what I saw as a child nor what my own father was.
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    That was Bobby Womack, True!