So now that they have resurrected “Wife Swap” as “Celebrity Wife Swap” I have an excuse to watch this bull shit show. And by bull shit I mean totally AWESOME. I was a fan of the original train wreck, but this is just reality show black tar heroin. You can’t stop. In fact, you want to watch again and again just to make sure you didn’t miss a “Busey-isim” or to make sure that Gayle Haggard didn’t call the gays Satan (I think she said SATIN)…..but either way. As you know if you have been reading my blog or following me on Twitter (@TheHeadDivaEve) (shameless plug), I say there is always a lesson to be learned from reality shows. NO – I do NOT just tell myself that to feel better, shut-up. As with the original “Wife Swap” there is a lesson to be learned. Never judge when you don’t know what is going on behind closed doors.
We all have the friend who has the PERFECT guy, or the co-worker with TONS of money (why are you taking my pay???), and even the super healthy guy at the gym, so happy, healthy, and what a big bright white smile! Well, this is why we are shocked when the perfect guy has an extra girlfriend (of 7 years), or that the co-worker gets her car repossessed at work, or when that guy gets arrested for trying to boost a hooker. We don’t live in that house, we don’t see it. Yet we judge it. We say – that girl must be a fool, that guy is great, she probably drove him away. I was a victim of this, although my ex wasn’t cheating we broke up and people were shocked. They didn’t see the fights, they didn’t see how he would order me around and they didn’t see when I spent rent money on Louboutins (in my defense, it was payback bitch). They looked at me like it was my fault, just as they would look at that girl who lost the “perfect” man to a very handsome women. The women who gets the car repossessed – did you know her husband is a deadbeat? They mortgaged that house until it was the cost of the Spelling mansion, all to keep the Mercedes and Yurman jewelery coming. They defined fake it until you make it, except they lost it. The guy at the gym, he was boosting a hooker because she had the drugs he wanted. We don’t know that his wife sleeps in the bedroom and he sleeps in the basement (when he is home). From the outside everything is hunky-dory.
“Wife Swap” in a strange way, pointed these things out. When you start watching, you get this idea of the families. I always pick a side, that is what the show is for. But then, even the side you picked seems a bit…well…….sad. You find things out about the family. The kids, they are not happy. The wife, she eats her pain. The other husband, CRAVING a home-cooked meal. Nothing is as it appears. And that is on T.V., can you imagine what it would be like to know them? I have a feeling issues, problems, skeletons, and hidden food would float to the surface. It’s a very strange way to teach a lesson the Catholic Church certainly failed to teach me – DON’T JUDGE. When you see me at my crack dealers house, (I won’t reveal his name, but he has red hair, big shoes, and resides in a home with golden arches) don’t think – loser on a Friday…….you don’t understand, you don’t know. Next time I see someone I care about make a BAD relationship choice, I should think back to a few years ago…. two words: Chaz Bono. And when I see someone who I deem drinks too much – I should remember my nights that luckily, I have learned from, because I certainly had my reasons, right or wrong, for doing what I did.
See, 1 hour of “Celebrity Wife Swap” didn’t turn my brain too mush. I learned, I shouldn’t judge unless I can LIFE swap.
Let’s see if Jersey Shore (season 5 haters!!!) can teach me how to be a more responsible drunk.
That’s all.
Eve Lynne
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