Garbage In, Garbage Out

When Ethan and I first started dating, I made him watch the Notebook with me. He immediately pointed out how the whole story was about a girl that couldn't make up her mind and ended up cheating on her fiance in the name of love. How is that ok? In fact, how are most chick flicks ok? They are all about cheating and going between two guys. Why is it not ok for a guy to feed his mind with movies that promote nudity, drugs or perverse humor but it's ok to feed a girl's mind with unrealistic expectations or a skewed version of what true love looks like?

It really bothers me how movies or soaps directed towards women try to play into their emotions. Think about it, we start off at a young age watching disney movies, hopeful that we all will find our prince charming. Then we are hooked on chick flicks that promise a perfect, well-rounded guy. And then we are lured into soap operas that make us believe it's ok to cheat because we may "no longer be in love" or maybe we "jumped into love too soon". Garbage in, garbage out. I've really began to see how what I watch or listen to or who I hang out with affects my everyday decisions and thought process.

I honestly feel like a lot of these movies and shows are like pornography for the girl. They fill a girls mind with all these expectations of what her husband (or boyfriend) should look like and when he doesn't meet up to the standard, then there's an excuse to cheat or an excuse to disrespect him. I write all of this because lately I've noticed a disrespect in myself towards my husband. I hate admitting it but it's been eating away at me. I'm going to be praying more about having respect towards him regardless of his imperfections. I'm also going to be paying closer to attention to what I watch/listen to and participate in. This journey we are on is about bringing glory to God and if this means removing people in my life that don't bring me closer to Him, filtering through the things I say and do and keeping His word close to my heart so I won't be led astray, than bring it on!

On a side note, last night I started my first day of Crossfit with Ethan. We did an assessment to see how many burpees, push-ups, air-squats pullups, etc. I could do in a certain amount of time. The goal is to beat myself every week. I'm a little sore (those air squats are a killer) but he gave me this awesome drink that promises you won't be sore the next day. Today I'm running a mile, rowing 500 meters for time and doing box jumps. I'm very excited to see how much better I will feel after getting into these good habits.