Women Be Trippin everywhere and all the time. Here’s the next chapter in our list of 101 Ways Women Be Trippin.
I blame MY BEST FRIEND’S WEDDING for this one. In the movie, Julia Roberts and the main dude in the film make an agreement that if neither one is married by the time they turn 28, then they’ll turn around and marry each other.
Ever since then, women have been setting wedding-deadlines. “I absolutely need to get married before I turn 30.” “I must be married before 32.”
I had a boss once who was so obsessed with getting engaged before her 30th birthday that her then-boyfriend proposed to her the day before she hit the big 3-o. He apparently didn’t want to make that commitment until the absolute last moment, like James Bond waiting until the timer reads 00:01 before disarming the nuclear weapon.
Neenah, from 52 Weeks 2 Find Him, has created a similar - and equally bogus - deadline. She’s giving herself one year to find her soulmate, which is like giving yourself a month to win the lottery, after which you’ll never buy a lotto ticket as long as you live.
I think that setting an unreasonable deadline to find your life partner is about as sensible as getting a haircut with dynamite. It’s not like normal no-pressure-at-all marriages are surefire successes to begin with (i.e. 1 out of 2 marriages ends in divorce). But hey, whatever Neenah wants, Neenah gets. Hope she gets a dude who has no problem whatsoever meeting and marrying a woman within nine months of knowing her. That’s a perfectly fair expectation!








