"Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures"--Vincent Thomas Lombardi

Today I was in the cafeteria with a friend from one of my classes and she said something so profound I told her that I would have to blog about it. While most girls (and women) settle for men of a lower status than them for fear of remaining single, she told me that she was in a relationship with someone who had previously been held back in school so was therefore a 2nd year senior. She then told me that she had set an ultimatum for him: Their relationship would be over unless he either 1. earned his high school degree or 2. enrolled in a job skills program/enrolled in the Air Force as he said he would. I was surprised at hearing that because many females nowadays fear that men will be intimidated or turned off by their success and therefore they decide that any man will do no matter if he's successful or not. Growing up, I was always told to find a woman who would complement me both in knowledge and in pay scale. Think about it, in our generation both adult members of a family work to provide. I found it impressive that she was as forward to her boyfriend as she was. I feel as if more black women were that way with their significant others, there would be a bigger margin of success for relationships in our community.

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