Sex on the Beach

I've watched this TV show with a great passion over the past two years. I loved observing the romantic failures of Charlotte, Miranda, Samantha, and Carrie. Miranda's independent woman who only desires to dominate a man. Charlotte’s desire to be devoted to a man and building the traditional home. Samantha's passion simply being sex in its wildest form. Carrie is the perfect combination of all three: a desire to control a man with her sexual luring, with a longing to be monogamous and married to a man so she might start her settled life not revolved around dating. Each of these women represents various forms of woman independence. In my life I have been all four of these women. First, I was Charlotte, innocent, trusting, and slightly naïve. Then I was Carrie, deeply in love with all the wrong men. Then I briefly became Miranda who had no time for anything but work. Then finally I became Samantha who worked, enjoyed her life, and simply got off however necessary. That was the easiest I discovered. It took no thought I called whomever I was messing with at the time and I got off when I wanted to, no strings attached. But like Samantha, I discovered my Richard, my weakness who started out as just sex but I found myself with deeper feelings than I had planned to have. But they were not returned. Which hurt. Once again, like Samantha, I had my moment of sadness and I moved on. So now I sit in the balance as Carrie. I am an independent woman who has her own but I want someone to be a head of me as my husband. But unlike Carrie I am not obsessing over this ultimate goal and my life does not revolve around dating. So here is my Sex in the City, Daytona Beach style…Sex on the Beach ;-) Minus the sexual act. Which people often assume the TV show Sex in the City is about, when in fact, it is about the struggle for women to make it in a man’s world. The search for love, independence, and happiness. But that's another issue.