Disclaimer: this piece does not intend to discuss negative feelings towards all men in general, but men who have shown similar character traits to Ron from Jersey Shore.
We’ve watched Ronnie Ortiz-Margo go back and forth with his former roommate and girlfriend Sammi Giancola for a decade. Their relationship was often a storyline in the popular series Jersey Shore.
But what pisses me off is now we get to watch him cry and act like a victim because Sam has moved on. This video summarizes his newfound feelings pretty well, and it absolutely infuriates me.
https://twitter.com/JerseyShore/status/989851671395217409
This is proof that men like Ron will literally drive you emotionally insane, embarrass you numerous times, cheat on you with multiple women, speak to and about you in degrading ways, put you through an emotional rollercoaster, and then have the audacity to sit there and say “I love her, she’s the one,” and get mad that she left you.
Although Ron and Sam are now living their separate lives, hers being much better than his, he still cries about her as if she’s a horrible person for leaving him. He didn’t deserve her. And now he’s on a couch crying because he had a pregnant fiance at the time and missed the girl he drove away.
So not only has he embarrassed Sam numerous times, he’s embarrassing his baby mama and daughter on national television as well. But again, he is thinking soley about himself because he wouldn’t have cheated on his girlfriend at the time if Sam hadn’t messed him up. How could someone be so selfish?
She left because she finally realized her self-worth and wasn’t going to be disrespected by a man like that ever again. How could Ron even utter those words on camera.
“I can’t get over her, she was the one.”
Yeah Ron, she was the one. She stayed with your disloyal ass despite all you put her through. And at the end of the day, she loved the hell out of you too because she willingly kept going back to you after every fight.
That’s the thing about having a good woman in your life. If she continuously puts up with your childish antics, argues with you, and still has your back at the end of the day, she genuinely loves you and would do anything to stay with you. Ron continuously messed up, knowing she would come back time after time and pushed Sam to her limit where she couldn’t take it anymore. Then he sits back and questions why she would ever leave and claims he loves her.
This is such a common problem with dating today. Certain men, ones with characteristics like Ronnie, push their woman’s buttons to their breaking point and then wonder why they leave. If they loved you, they would never put you through that.
Men like Ronnie like to test our limits. They like to know how far they can go with you and learn how to walk all over you because they continue to test your loyalty. They’re like a kid who disobeys their mom and knows they can keep doing it because there is no repercussion for their actions, then act shocked when there is.
When you treat someone like shit what do you expect? For her to put on a new shade of lipstick to kiss your ass with?
Situations like this infuriate me because it is so common. For those who act like Ronnie, they still don’t even see what the problem is even if they’re watching a similar situation to theirs on TV. I hope that people can recognize their own issues with dating in this series, and I hope that more women act like Sam and respect themselves enough to walk away from a toxic man who doesn’t deserve you.
Feature image via Ronnie Ortiz-Margo on Instagram
