Are you a tool?

So I kind of got sucked into this TV show called "Tool Academy." Its a show on MTV where these guys are brought unknowingly by their girlfriends to try and fix their relationships. These guys are very unfaithful, ungrateful, and in general womanizers to the fullest. They are very into themselves and whatever is best for them. They are very pompus and really out of control. The best part is that they dont think they are any of these things.

I started watching the first season of this show and now I am into the second season. On a regular basis I laugh out load while watching the show. Not because its funny, but because these "tools" take no responisbility for themselves or their own issues both within themselves and their relationships with the girlfriends. The last episode showed many of them, for the second time this season, completely brush off their girlfriends for scantly dressed women in front of them. I see women who are very beautiful and intelligent, who deserve way better than these guys, stick by them and want them to change. If that is not love I dont know what is. Every episode has a tool that gets kicked out of the academy. The most recent departure actually broke up with his girlfriend after being kicked out. Complete tool.

All of this to say, I mess up. I mess up A LOT with Amanda. But I am glad I am not a tool like these boys, not men, on this show. It seems like they have it all. But I would not want to be them because I would be willing to bet it is a very lonely life. A life in which they have get drunk every night in order to have a good time. It only takes my wife and my fremends to have a good time for me. Maybe this is why I watch it, to boost my self-confidence a little. I dont know, but I am glad I love my wife and do everything for her and would not change that. I am glad my wife loves me enough to forgive me everytime I mess up. Its when I start doing things for myself that I get into trouble. Its just that simple.

I hope God has put people into your life that continually lift you up and challange you when you need it. I hope I can be that person for others. But I mess up sometimes with that too....does that make me a tool?

Love Will Amanda and Bryson

ps- they also have therapy sessions that I enjoy watching from the counselor viewpoint...very interesting!!