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Eating crabs......resembles relationships

I am now in Jamaica. A few days before I left Grenada, I suddenly had an urge for crabs so emailed ahead and asked Mother to arrange some.

While eating them on Saturday with my father, it suddenly dawned on me that you go through all the trouble to crack the crab shell and all you get is a little meat. I mentioned this to Dad, that eating crabs was really a waste of time....almost an exercise in futility. He agreed, and went on further to say "it's a fantasy". My interpretation of that was that you think something good is there, you fantasize about it, but when you get down to it, there's nothing there really.

Alone in the Kitchen eating the final bits, it struck me that eating crabs was sorta like how some people's romantic relationships are.

The idea of the relationship keeps you going. You fantasize about the great life you are going to have, all the wonderful things you are going to do with your partner, what a perfect relationship you are going to have...

..then you encounter crab claws, which if you dont mind sharp, will 'juck' you in your gum. You navigate the tentacles and obstacles, you crack the shell, and there is a smidggering of crab meat. Not much reward for all the hard work.

Share that with your partners and see what they say....maybe not about your current relationship (hopefully!) but probably about previous relationships that resembled eating crabs.

Posted by yamfoot at June 23, 2009 10:24 PM