Engaged, 6$60k wedding in the works and ALREADY Thinking about Divorce!

[sunnyjohn]

Lance Armstrong's ex-wife Kristen telling Her story On O!
What is the greatest conspiracy in modern history? Kristin says it's not Watergate or the assassination of John F. Kennedy—it's marriage.

"I think a conspiracy is anything that's shrouded in silence," she says. "I think women are awesome communicators. So why don't women talk to women about what it's going to take to not just make [marriage] work but make it great?"

Kristin says that in order to have a healthy marriage, husbands and wives have to find a balance between pleasing their partner and staying true to themselves. "There isn't anything wrong with making sacrifices and working together. But I think as long as each person can hold onto themselves, and it's a mutual experience of growth—that's the beautiful part. That's the point."

Oprah says she never walked down the aisle because she didn't want to sacrifice herself and her feelings for a man. "I was in tears when I read [Kristin's article] because this is why I never got married," she says. "I just wanted to always be myself."

http://www2.oprah.com/tows/slide/200605/20060509/slide_20060509_284_103.jhtml

 

[sunnyjohn]

Meghan is a bride-to-be who says she has doubts about getting married to her fiancé, Chris. "Going into my 30s, I became very attached to who I was. It became a source of pride for me to be single, and I wasn't going to let anything get in the way of that until Chris came along," Meghan says. "At first I really thought of it as a death of my former life and now I realize that I wasn't completely wrong."

With their wedding just a month away, Meghan says she's considered calling off the ceremony several times but that she and Chris have agreed to move forward with their plans no matter what.

Although Meghan and Chris have a lot of money invested in their wedding, Dr. Robin says their lives are worth more than money. She says Meghan needs to be willing to give herself more time to decide. "You haven't given yourself the option to wait," Dr. Robin says. "You're saying, 'I have to do this.' And to feel that you have to do it means that somehow you're feeling that you don't have a choice."

http://www2.oprah.com/tows/slide/200605/20060509/slide_20060509_284_107.jhtml

 

[sunnyjohn]

IMHO, "LA OP" is shoveling a bunch of hooey, but the other women make sense.

 

[MissJ]

I wanted to see this, but I also wanted to make $200. Maybe I'll catch the rerun.

 

[Southernbella.]

I thought it was just ok. I can't believe there are still women who think that way in this day and age. Everything they were saying was common sense, and nothing new. If you hide your true feelings to make others happy, you will be miserable.

I don't like when O says, "that's why I'll never get married." It just makes me think she's weak, when I know she isn't.

I don't know. I just have a hard time mustering up sympathy for women like that.

 

[dlewis]

I thought it was just ok. I can't believe there are still women who think that way in this day and age. Everything they were saying was common sense, and nothing new. If you hide your true feelings to make others happy, you will be miserable.

I don't like when O says, "that's why I'll never get married." It just makes me think she's weak, when I know she isn't.

I don't know. I just have a hard time mustering up sympathy for women like that.

I agree............

 

[SparklingFlame]

I thought it was just ok. I can't believe there are still women who think that way in this day and age. Everything they were saying was common sense, and nothing new. If you hide your true feelings to make others happy, you will be miserable.

I don't like when O says, "that's why I'll never get married." It just makes me think she's weak, when I know she isn't.

I don't know. I just have a hard time mustering up sympathy for women like that.

Yep. I agree too. When O said that was why she never got married, I think she was lying. That aint a good enough reason for a SISTA not to get married. I can see a white woman coming up with that excuse, but a black woman? Nah!

 

[MissYocairis]

I thought it was just ok. I can't believe there are still women who think that way in this day and age. Everything they were saying was common sense, and nothing new. If you hide your true feelings to make others happy, you will be miserable.

I don't like when O says, "that's why I'll never get married." It just makes me think she's weak, when I know she isn't.

I don't know. I just have a hard time mustering up sympathy for women like that.

ITA!! It's a smokescreen for something else going on. wo-MAN UP and tell the truth!!!!

 

[felicia]

what is starting to annoy me about oprah is that in her eyes(it seems) that if u are white, your life is perfect. for ex, she was like you should have had the perfect life you're blonde etc. she has said this a lot. it also seemed like oprah was putting marriage down. they came across as bitter hags, all of them.