Will You Still Love Me After This?

I may get jumped because of what I am about to say, but I really want you to still love me afterward....

ALL MEN ARE JUST ALIKE! Now, I really don't mean that, but this one guy...well, there are these men that remain in contact with me (and not the other way around) that are just alike. And I really hate to depreciate the value of some of the real men I know such as Baby Daddy #1, Sutherland, Boom Boom, and Mandingo (just to name a few), by referring to these men as such. So instead of putting them in that category, let's refer to them as Certified Crazies (CCs). Since I never got the memo that you made 3 years ago while I was away in school, and since it was never addressed to 2957, I have all right to put in my 30 seconds notice. Don't worry about the other 9 days and 30 seconds, because it's just not needed.

I am not knocking your dreams of being somebody in life or having your name written across a billboard. I'm not knocking your drive to have 8 cars and no place to stay or the fact that you get off of probabtion next month after 8 years. I just don't want you to believe that I am really here to upgrade you or to support you through this process that you've been going through since I've known you. Initially, because I was young and dumb, I thought, "Good for you!" But when you start playing the same beats you played when I first talked to you on the phone 10 years ago or you are still using the same 7 year-old notebook to misspell your freestyles in, I really can't associate. I don't want to hear about how you're over your baby mama, when I clearly know you just acting on the phone. I don't want to read your Happy Valentine's Day text messages you sent via your sister's phone. I don't want you to call me after not talking to you for one day and hearing you say, "Ya don't luv ya boy no mo'?" And then you use words like, ding-a-ling...

We are adults now. Please act like one. I can honestly say that the real men are struggling through this real deal called life. The real men are working and trying to support themselves, not just make some money here and there to purchase a new television that they have no space for or keep up with people that they claim they care about every 6 months-2 years. The real men are not ashamed to talk on the phone to another woman while the main squeeze is in the room. The real men who gain my respect, respect me. They don't use and abuse me. They don't get nervous and jealous when someone else is in my territory, because they KNOW I will always, always, always have time and love for them. Unfortunately for you, as a CC, you tend to catch on a little late. Please note when my birthday is and don't say things like, "Your birthday right after my daddy's and his is on the 15th." Please catch MY memo that I sent out several times informing you that you call me too much. Please don't send me text messages thinking you are being cutesy with me, when I will send back a laughing smiley and you think it's a happy smiley. As a CC I appreciate your words and the little bit that you do, but in order for you to keep the little status that you do have, please step your game up.