Isn't That Part of the Game

*Spoilers are in This Post*

Are any of you guys watching Love is____ on the OWN Network? I'm a Will Catlett (That Guy, First, Black Lightning), who plays Yasir fan. I saw him on a commercial for it and I had to watch it. The well-written storyline is keeping me watching it. The plot is a black influential couple, Nuri & Yasir in 2017, tell the story of their escalation to prominence & love in Hollywood that started in the late 1990's. It is based on the love story of the show's creators, Salim & Mara Brock Akil.

Both characters come with relationship baggage. Nuri dated multiple men at the time she met Yasir. Yasir had a roommate with a few benefits, named Ruby. He was unemployed, slept on her couch for 5 months and they had sex twice. Yet, Ruby is very jilted. Especially since Yasir has moved on to a job & a new love life. Ruby feels like she prepared Yasir for his new phase. (I feel like she enabled him, actually. But I don't write the show.)

But isn't that part of the game. Don't every dating, romantic & sexual we experience prepare us for next of love. I'm going to paraphrase a common dating advice quote. Sometimes a person's purpose in another's life is to help them become a better person for another person. Everyone is not your "end all to be all", but everyone is a learning lesson. I sometimes think we are taught to understand that lesson late.

I often wonder why we don't understand that fact. Why do we let obvious temporary intimate involvements hurt us when they are over? I am often led to the same thought. "Love stories" we are steered to follow, enhance the happy ending relationship. But also in the path of people to get to the finale, the teachable storyline is there.

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As Always Talking to You In Adult Terms!