One of my favorite shows came back on VH1 and every time it’s on I am forced to take a look in the mirror and ask myself if I’m at the point where I could actually qualify to be a contestant. No, it’s not the Bachelor, not yet anyway, it’s Tough Love. If you haven’t heard of it, I suggest you watch it for two reasons. One, its pure entertainment and two, you might actually learn something about dating (gasp)!
Basically, the handsome but unyielding love coach, Steve Ward, provides a few fortunate women with relationship advice and dating rules in order to find the happy, healthy relationship they’ve always dreamed about. The catch is these women are the worst of the worst. Gentlemen, picture the most horrifying date you’ve ever been on, times that by a million and you’ve got yourself a prime candidate to be on Tough Love.
Besides the constant shock one experiences while watching each episode, it also forces one to take a minute to re-evaluate what message they are putting out there. Watching the show, I have learned just how cray-cray girls can be! I’m not talking about the NORMAL “bad day” tears or that one week of the month where we wish laser beams could shoot out of our eyes. I’m talking about the gold digging, self absorbed, wedding crazed, obsessive, single ladies that give the rest of us a bad rap. I feel bad for single guys when I watch this show! Maybe single ladies everywhere need a good swift kick in the…head to remind us that the good men, who have become a fairytale character in our book, are probably thinking the same thing about us.
Now, these women on Tough Love are probably acting, but bad behavior like that exists in the real world. Some ladies could probably use a little tough love to serve as a reminder that you can’t expect the best if you aren’t the best version of yourself. So, as Ice Cube would say it, “check yo self”, and let’s make sure we avoid needing a reality show to set us strait.
