Frogs and princes

Relationships are complicated. To start with the picture is all rosy due to our overactive hormones or denial to think about the future. With commitments come the pressure of unfulfilled expectations and the drama of a relationship. I believe that an affair or a fling is easy but a relationship is the most difficult thing you'd ever be faced with.  Relationships requires one to compromise and at times we cross the very thin line between compromise and sacrifice. It is when we start to sacrifice our self on the altar of a relationship that things start to move downhill. From there on it is the start of a slow and painful death of the relationship.

Why do we feel the need or the desire to be a relationship when we know that once we are in one things would end up being much more complicated than the present. Relationships bring along with them the baggage of the past and the pressure of expectations in the future which at most times are unfulfilled and that leads to disappointment. 

Why is it not like the fairy tale where we find a frog, kiss it, and lo and behold we have our prince charming. In my experience we meet the prince charming, kiss and then sooner or later he turns into a frog. Some like me take comfort in the fact that he was a frog we needed to kiss in order to find the real prince charming. The real prince wouldn't need to hide behind the mask of being someone he is not to get into my pants. But as it turns out that the frogs far out number the princes and then to find a gay prince is too much of an improbability. Am I being cynical or do you agree with the way I think??!!

There is a song by Natasha Bedingfield that talks about the same. If you haven't heard it you can hear it here.