The Comeback Girl

Hi Comeback Lovlies, I’ve been doing some serious traveling spanning two time zones in a week and I’m alittle tired, but happy to be home in my bed. Some travel for pleasure and some for business.

 I have “comeback” refreshed and renewed. And will resume our “What A Musician Looks Like” series throughout the rest of the week.

 For some reason I’ve become really fascinated with the Christie Brinkley divorce proceedings. Her husband, Peter Cook, was accused of carrying on with an 18 year old. I’ve read previously that Brinkley discovered the affair after being told by the 18 year old’s stepfather after Brinkley delivered a highschool commencement speech. Cook also spent thousands of dollars reportedly on “interactive internet porn”. He also paid the 18 year old $300,000 to go away quitely.

I was talking to my mother this evening about what shocked me the most (not just how great Brinkley looks for 54, but what a court appointed psychiatrist, Dr. Stephen Herman had to say about her realationship with Cook:

 ”the model needs to examine her taste in men and her cheating husband is a narcissist with a bottomless ego…[Brinkley] needs to start working on deeper issues including her choice of male figures.

Call me crazy, but I don’t hear mental health professionals go around talking about women’s choices of mates in divorce proceedings. I don’t ever hear it mentioned sometimes hear it mentioned in the news media period. Hell when women have break ups, I NEVER hear, “perhaps I need to check why I am attracting the same types of men over and over”. It’s ALWAYS “his lying, cheating, crazy ass. Look what he did to me”. Now don’t get me wrong Cook is a narccacist. And his Karma now gets him limited access to his children and a few slashes through his name as an architect.

But why do we as women attract the same types of men over and over. How do we end up with men we’d never want to share the same breathing space with, much less a bed and children? And why aren’t we just as selective about the men we love and sleep with as we are with some of the clothes we put on our backs? That is the million dollar question. And I think when we as women can collectively answer that question for ourselves, with truth and personal responsibility better men WILL show up.

I swear this is true on everything I own. And in a couple of days I will detail exactly why.