The depths of Stormy Waters....

The second mouse gets the cheese people. Now you might ask what I'm talking about....seems like Erickas talking crazy again. But hear me out. In relationships....that first woman, she deals with the man who is still sowing his wild oats. Still doing wrong and pretending to do right. It amazes me now how much, and how often a man is able to do wrong when the woman he's with is in love...thus blinded. I won't harp on that because frankly I'd hear way too many "I told you so's." Let it suffice to say that I...like so many women before me, have BEEN THERE AND DONE THAT. So..back to my story. This women...she takes everything from this man. And through love and patience, kindness, understanding and 8,472 second chances...this man begins to see the error of his ways. Slowly but surely. Now don't get happy...because seeing them doesn't change him He's not able to climb out of the rat hole he's built for himself...through false modesty and fake humility...through learning what it takes to keep a good woman and using it instead to further develop his playa skills, his game, his flow....slowly but surely...this man DOES learn. We as women are so quick to dismiss a man for doing us wrong, but everything is a learning experience. So...this first woman, she gives her all. And when she runs out of faith, patience and is too heartbroken to make a stand...she gives up. And through the hardship she is comforted by the fact that she tried her damndest. And this man; after losing this woman....he begins to see that the lessons he learned would have best been utilized actually DOING those things he promised instead of just saying them. Some men belong to everyone. Some of you reading this, you think your man is yours....but the person reading it next thinks the same thing about your man. But I digress. So this man finally learns these lessons....but the first woman has been so beat down by this man, so hurt and belittled, that regardless of the changes he makes...there just wasn't enough room in her heart for an 8,473rd chance. She cannot alow him access to her heart, for he has proven to be careless with it time and again. So she leaves him alone. And it hurts. Because a part of her feels like she has lost...given up and all those women who wreaked so much havoc in her life have won. Have prospered where she lost. So back to my first statement. That first mouse dies in that mousetrap. And the reward...the fruit of her hard labor, because this man has truly become what she longed for him to be for so long....sits there like a beautiful (and free) prize. The 2nd mouse....gets the cheese.