I was listening to Howard Stern this morning. I'm not sure how they got on this topic, but a caller asked how Howard could know that he would be faithful to his fiance. Howard replied that he sometimes feels that he is entitled to have any woman and is jealous that men in general are with women that Howard interacts with. In his position, he could have many beautiful women, but he choses to remain with his fiance. He makes a choice to love. He then played a clip from Chris Rock. Another unlikely source of relationship advice. In the act, Chris uses the kitty cat term for a woman's private area. I've replaced it with strange for this post. Although Chris is referring to men, this could just as easily apply to women
So you get to a point in your life, you've got to figure out. What's important to you? On the one hand you've got commitment. You and your woman together; living, sharing, loving, growing It's the most beautiful thing in the world. And you know that But before you can settle down, you've got to get over this other stuff That's right, cause everyman's gotta choice to make Every single man in here's gotta choice to make And you know what the choice is... Commitment or new strange That is the question. Commitment or new strange Now commitment may give you a headache every now and again New strange always clears your mind But you've got to think about life in the long term Now people tell you life is short. No it's not Life is long. Especially if you make the wrong decisions And in the long term, if I'm sick, is new strange going to take care of me? No. If I'm hungry, is new strange going to feed me? New strange can't cook! If I've got a baby, is new strange gonna teach him how to read? New strange is illiterate! So I've gotta come back to commitment and turn this old strange into new strange. That's right. I've got to recycle the strange.
