Crazy things men confess to doing for love
THEY say there is no person more irrational than a man in love. And this is not made easier for men by women who mount challenges — one upon another — in the name of proving their love. This week All Woman asked men to share instances when they were so crazy in love with a woman that they made irrational decisions. Here’s what they had to say:
Derek:
I stole money from my mother to give to her. She is a browning, she looked really good, she was intelligent, and she knew how to make me laugh, something not many could do. Before I approached her it was obvious she had a lavish lifestyle but I still went ahead. So when her demands came in, I had to find a way to meet them. It was around the time I was having a dry period and she made my mom’s account dry out. All that being said, while I got a job after a while, I didn’t attempt to put the money back into my mother’s account and she found out soon after returning from an extended trip. The fact that I took the money wasn’t the problem, it’s because I broke her heart and trust.
Marshall:
I was young and stupid and my girl came to live with us and she was a little untidy but I fell for her bad and I couldn’t see the wrong in anything she did at the time. One day my mother got into an argument with her — I believe it was about her underwear on the clothes line at the front. I knew the principle and I had shared it with her. Anyway, she went up in my mom’s face and my mom slapped her and I shoved my mother. When I did that to my queen, the woman I swore to protect and care for after she struggled with me and my sister as a single mother, I was sure that I was too crazy in love. She made me feel unlike myself and I wanted to do things that were unlike me and I had to stop myself. I helped her find somewhere to live, and for a while we still fooled around, but she made me so lovesick in a way that I hated.
Kirk:
I have never borrowed in my life and last year this girl wanted to go to Dream Weekend and I went to the loan office and borrowed the money for us to go — for clothes, shoes, car rental, accommodation. When we came back we didn’t even have money for food. Furthermore, when I really looked into myself I was upset, because I never made sure my son was provided for before I took the money, knowing very well back-to-school stuff would be needed soon.
Jacko:
It was long ago, but I left my home in St Elizabeth to find a girl in St Catherine and I didn’t know where exactly she lived (by the way, I rode a bike). The amount of time it broke down, the amount of push I had to push it, and the amount of time the little ground provision and mangoes I was taking for her fell out, everything was full of dirt when I finally reached two days later. Yes, I slept in the bushes the first night of my journey and I didn’t know exactly where I was going, whether she gave me the right address, or even if she was going to accept me. We had had a fight and she had left, and turns out she was still upset. Her parents allowed me to sleep at the house, and 19 years later she is still my wife.
Martin:
When I was about 14 I gave a girl named Jacqueline every dollar I got from working at a wholesale, only to find out she was doing it to about four of us guys. I was so in love I still gave her money about three times after I found out, because she told me it was me she really loved. Serves me right for thinking a girl of 18 would love a thread-thin, knock-kneed, four-eyed boy like me.
