Clarification on Mystery’s Marriage

I wanted to clear up something I said in my last Rumor-oriented post about Mystery and his marriage…

All I can say is that if Mystery’s marriage really is over, I’m greatly relieved, since I’m sure the security of marriage probably would have affected his PUA skills over time.

After reading that a few times, I realized that what I typed there came out very wrong.  See, I consider Mystery a friend, and he has taught me some great things that have really helped to improve me as a person and my life.  So I want to make this clear that I want only the best for Mystery, because I want the best for my friends.  And if marriage makes him happy, then I want it to work for him.

However, as it relates to this situation, I did not feel this was a real marriage.  Mystery had known this girl for all of two weeks by the time they got married.  Call me old fashioned, but I tend to take marriage pretty seriously.  That means, I think that for a marriage to WORK and be SUCCESSFUL, you gotta have AT LEAST a year or two of relationship under your belt before you even start CONSIDERING getting married.  I think it takes that long to really get a sense of who someone is and if you can live with that.

The kind of shotgun marriage that Mystery partook in did not meet that criteria of mine, and I saw it as a marriage that was not going to last.  But knowing Mystery, I knew that being married was going to affect his skills, lifestyle, and attitude.  Namely:  He’s gonna stop being motivated to go out.  And when that happens, it could negatively effect his business, which I don’t want to see happen.

So when I said I was "glad to see Mystery’s marriage is over," it was not because I don’t want to see him happily married.  It was because I knew this marriage wasn’t destined to last, and that the longer it was to go on, the more negatively I felt it would affect him.

I just wanted to clear that up so there were no misinterpretations.  But on the bright side of things, Mystery’s marriage did give way to a great new Opener, tentatively called the "Mystery Got Married Opener."  It goes like this:

"Hey guys, do you think it’s okay for two people to get married TWO WEEKS after meeting each other?  Check it out, I got a friend who met a girl, and after a week, she moved in with him.  Then, after two weeks, they went to Vegas and got married.  We’re all wierded out because we think our friend is moving too fast, but he’s never seemed happier.  What do you think about that?  Would you ever marry a guy two weeks after meeting him?  How in love would you have to be with someone to do that?"

Credit Merovingian on that one.  I’m still working on my own version of it.  Maybe you guys can test it out and see what you can do with it.