We've survived another week, and we're here for another edition of True Romance. I was planning to kick things off by taking another look at the training camp lack of focus being displayed by quarterbacks around the league.
I get there's a love story there, but I'm not going to get into that again. A headline popped up and slapped me across the face this morning that I couldn’t ignore. It's about Nicole Kidman.
She's, believe it or not, embracing love after her divorce from Keith Urban. My first thought is what a hero. But there's more to it than just that.
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Kidman could actually be a reader of True Romance with what she had to say about her breakup. She told British Vogue, reports Page Six, "I've always wanted to live a well-examined life."
Okay, well not that part. I would never say anything so insightful. But as she goes on, she does hit on what it is I pretend we're doing every week.
"So what does that entail?" she continued. "Trying things, making mistakes, failing, getting back up, moving on, embracing love, staying open, keeping the heart open and the possibilities."
We usually save the emotional moments for somewhere towards the end or stuff them down and bury them entirely. Not this week. And we have Nicole Kidman to thank for that.
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This twisted tale of romance gone afoul is a first for the column. Not the twisted romance or the going afoul. We've had those before.
I've also had writers and editors send stories my way before. I've had emails and, more recently, song suggestions from readers, but this is the first story sent in by a reader.
OutKick reader Guy sent in the story of how a Kentucky woman came home early from work on the Fourth of July and learned of her husband's affair thanks to a Slip 'N Slide wrestling match.
The woman's husband and her best friend's sister were the two involved in the bizarre scene. Spoiler alert, the best friend's sister is not who the husband was cheating on his wife with.
Britney shared her story on social media, reports MSN. She was working overtime on the Fourth of July when one of her best friends' sisters called and told her to come home and celebrate the holiday.
She did and when she arrived home, the celebration was already underway and her husband was holding her best friend in the air by the legs. She didn’t think anything of it and had no idea that things were only going to get weirder.
Britney was approached by another one of her best friend's sisters. She wanted to know if she could tackle her husband. The sister was wearing a baggy shirt and biker shorts at the time, so she agreed.
The best friend's sister tackled Britney's husband, then changed into a thong bikini and started wrestling with him on a Slip 'N Slide that was set up.
"They proceed to wrestle on the Slip ‘N Slide for, like, a good 30 minutes. Like, they’re going at it," Britney claimed. They were all over each other and everyone was watching.
The sister's fiancé wasn't happy about what he was witnessing and neither was Britney's best friend, which Britney was touched by. She assumed her best friend was upset on her behalf, because of her husband's behavior.
Then a joke about it being slippery by the husband went too far. She had decided that the marriage, which was already in trouble at that point, was over.
Britney later learned about the affair her husband was having. It wasn't with her best friend's engaged sister who he was wrestling with at the party.
The affair was with her best friend. That's why she was upset by the Slip 'N Slide entertainment. She wasn’t taking up for Britney at all. She was watching her man wrestle with her sister and didn’t like it.
There's no need to worry about Britney. She didn’t just end her marriage, she ended her friendship as well and she's gone on to find love again.
Isn't that a wholesome story about loving, losing, and having it all turning out in your favor again. Your marriage may end on a Slip 'N slide, but there's still love out there if you know where to look.
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I don't want any of the overrated fries at McDonald's. I don’t want much from the fast food establishment at all. But I'll take romance and an ice cream machine that works.
They have at least one of those at a location in Ohio where two coworkers tied the knot over the weekend. George and Jamie Callicoat were married in the dining room area of a McDonald's in Akron.
The location didn't completely close during the ceremony; that would be insane. Cleveland.com reports the dining room was closed to the public for two hours, from 5 to 7 pm. The drive-thru was open for business.
"This is so much more than a wedding at a McDonald’s," Tammy Snider, the general manager of the McDonald’s, Tammy Snider, said.
"It's a story about two people in love and a restaurant team that wanted to make sure they felt celebrated."
Well said. What more do you need?
You can blow an insane amount of money on a wedding and have two people enter into a marriage with a fraction of the love that was packed into that McDonald's on Saturday.
I'll take a McDonald's dining room wedding over a spectacle at Madison Square Garden any day. I'm going out on a limb here, but I'm guessing this one didn't have a disgusting prenup attached to it.
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Not every marriage is going to make it. That's reality. Some of the ones that end before the "death do us part" have early signs that they aren’t going to make it, even at the wedding.
These are some that were noticed by the good people of Reddit at the wedding that they, in some cases, appear to have kept to themselves. I'm not judging, I would do the same thing.
Sit back and watch it unfold. That's how you feel alive.
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That's all I have this week. I'm heading out for a week-long vacation after I punch the clock later this evening, but there will be another True Romance next Thursday afternoon.
In the meantime, keep the song of the week suggestions coming. You can reach me, anonymously if you prefer, at sean.joseph@outkick.com.