Behind Every Good Man, There's A Good Woman

Sorry it took so long for an edit, but here goes... Okay, so every knows or should know the story behind President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama's relationship. In a nutshell, she saw the potential for great things in him and decided to stand by him while he reached that potential. See, I'm a believer in the saying "behind every good man there's a good woman" because have you noticed that there's never been a single president in office? Or that when a man gets ready to run for any type of political position, he's married? Even if the pastor of a church is single, people are skeptical. Here's my point, women were put here to be a man's helpmate, it's not good for man to be alone and God said that. Women can be the driving force that a man needs to push him to the limit, to get him to be all that he can be. Women are often times just what a man needs in order to reach his full potential, just take a step back and look at all the great men in history. Am I saying that men just HAVE to have a woman in their lives in order to do great things? Of course not, there are plenty of great men who are single and there are even some who had the wrong woman behind them and they ended up going down the wrong path. But what I am saying is that we, as women, and even more as black women have to learn to look at more than what a man has to offer us or what he can do for us. Yes, we're strong and yes, we are educated, independent, etc, but if we didn't have someone pushing us, whether if be family, friends, or only ourselves, would we be all those things? Learn to look at a person and see the potential, see them trying and realize that just because he wasn't rich or educated or whatever it is that you want him to be when you met him, that doesn't mean he will always be in that position. And let me not leave without saying a man who doesn't have anything and isn't trying to get anything is not what you need, but if you're employed, have a degree, and feel you are successful, don't knock a man who has a job just because he doesn't have a degree or isn't working a job you feel is suitable. You have to redefine a "good" man. At least he has a job and is trying to do for himself, that's a lot more than can be said for a lot of other brothers, so that makes him a good man.