Medical Marital Concerns-A Diagnosis.

I'd like to nominate wedding mania as a mental illness. I suggest that anyone suffering from this obsessive disorder be medicated.

I mean what is it about women and weddings? Now, don't get me wrong..Men can suffer from this too, and also some women never have the misfortune of experiencing this horrid syndrome…But still.

It is mainly women.

I mean ever since you are a little girl you are told all about weddings. You have some idealized version of the truth pumped into your head (via the ears) about weddings, and then to make it worse, you put this already distorted concept on a pedestal. And then you spend a big chunk of your life worshipping it.

What I'm referring to is the way that girls/women have some blown out of proportion, "perfect" day in their mind, when they think of their wedding.

The funny thing is that no one thinks of the marriage. It's mainly all about the wedding day. The BIG event. No one tells these poor girls about the life afterwards. The normalness of it all. The paying the bills, the washing the clothes. The going to work on a cold Monday morning.

He may be a prince, but he's not going to rescue you from it all. Coz the thing you want to be rescued from is life. Now if that's not some kind of disorder, I dont know what is. Talk about taking escapism to the extreme!

Quick buy a white dress and run away from your every day life!! QUICK! DO IT! DO IT NOW!

Then get a cake that's madly overpriced, and has enough preservatives in it to embalm a small rodent….But that's not all!If you Really want to be happy you MUST have small children scattering rose petals and grains of rice at your feet! I mean no occasion is the same without this special ritual!

Let's get real. There is no recipe for happiness. You cant say: One white dress + big cake + honey moon + diamond ring = happiness ever after.

I mean with that kind of mindset you are bound to be disappointed. How could you not be? I mean you are placing your own happiness in someone else's hands. In the grooms hands, in the ring maker's hands, in the people who you expect to compliment you and buy you presents' hands…The list of people who could either make you feel blissfully happy, or could burst your bubble is endless!

I say get married in the back yard, in your favourite jeans, with no expectations. I'll bet you anything that you'll have a great time.

And you wont need medication either. The best inoculation against Wedding Mania is probably having the rug of OTT expectations pulled from under your feet. The earlier the better.

Theoretically Diagnosed by Probable Sushi