Popular Culture Review Vol. 12, No. 2, August 2001 | Page 98

94 Popular Culture Review Women may come and women may go, but you can always rely on your truck. If you want a stable relationship get a horse. It’s better to have LOVED and LOST, than to have LOVED and WON. One might assume that the quest for personal freedom and individual pleasure for some has eroded the traditional institutions of marriage and the family, from which just until recently many individuals derived their sense of identity and life’s meaning. Narcissistic individuals for example are unable to feel and express love for others as they cannot abandon the complete self-absorption that characterizes their life. Notice this sticker for example: I am in love with me. Whenever the presence of others fails to foster one’s progress toward goalachievement, the narcissist gets rid of them. Many bumper stickers illustrate this concept: Drink till she’s cute, but stop before the wedding. Love, marriag