Rihanna: ‘Love is like swimming with sharks’
The NY Post’s gossip column Page Six has another article about rebellious Rihanna defying her boss Jay Z’s orders to avoid all contact with her abusive ex-boyfriend, Chris Brown.
A source in Rihanna’s camp told Page Six:
“Her management banned her from reuniting with Chris, but she said she’ll do whatever the hell she wants to,” said a source, adding, “Rihanna is rebelling. She says they have been working her too hard and she wants some time to herself. They fear she’ll secretly record an album with Brown, just to defy them.”
But you already know all this because you are a loyal reader of Sandrarose.com (and, apparently, so is Page Six).
One of the saddest things I’ve read all year is Rihanna drawing an analogy between love and swimming with sharks, which she literally did while filming her first movie “Battleship”.
Rihanna clearly has no concept of what love is. Love is a series of actions, not a feeling or an emotion.
When you care for someone’s health and well being, you are expressing love for that person. Love does not have to involve sex to be real.
Rihanna is among the millions of confused young people who believe that love has to hurt to be real.
In Rihanna’s opinion, love is risky and fraught with danger. If it isn’t daring or threatening, it isn’t love as far as she’s concerned. How sad!
Rihanna talked to ELLE magazine about the confusion that arises when someone who thinks she’s in love is actually under the influence of Dopamine:
“When you know you like a guy, or when you’ve been in love . . . That’s the same feeling you have swimming with sharks,” “That’s the same feeling you have when doing anything daring, risky, spontaneous, or unpredictable. I think having those butterflies is the closest thing to being in love . . . And when you play it safe, you don’t feel anything at all.”
I almost cried when I read that last line. I wish I could hug Rihanna and tell her that men aren’t all like her alcoholic dad, who forced her to sit up all night searching the skies for space ships and aliens.
I wish I could tell her that men aren’t all abusive like her father or Chris Brown — and that love doesn’t hurt. Love heals wounded souls like hers. And she already has healing love all around her. She just doesn’t know where to look.
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:shakesbutt: WHEN WILL AUNTIE GET SOME OF RIRI SUGA WHEN
*le sigh*
Laker
Last I seen if Mystikal, he was just outside the penitentiary and taking photos in that squatted down leaned to the side pose with his arms crossed and his head tilted up.
LAKER!!
Ummm Okaaayyy. *confusedface*
I really dont believe Rhi is obsessing about CB or even cares…it kills me how people think they know you personally based on pictures and tweets. Rhi dont give a damn what anyone else thinks.
@69 LOL
YSO
I swear the more she opens her mouth she let me know how much of a 51/50 she is. This girl is OBESSED with Chris B. I dont give a dayum what people say. This bish is crazy……
Auntie please stop
Rih is FINE, most of her comments are probably for shock factor or editorial purposes anyway…I’m one person who is convinced that she knows what the hell she’s doing when she’s talking about this stuff…
@Feline exactly! me too, I think she knows how to work the public…
FeFe
hey gorgeous
@Lakes the breakfast club did an interview with Mystikal not too long ago…it’s still on their site…can’t believe dude videotaped the ish he did to that woman
@Sandra that is NOT what she meant
You do waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much when it come to this girl
@Fe
Fe, YSO, XYZ –
I THINK I GOT EVERYONE ELSE EARLIER TA’DAY!
I still
me some Rih Rih! Let me run into that heffa…….
*shiversatthethought*
CD
hey girly 
Rih is FINE, most of her comments are probably for shock factor or editorial purposes anyway…I’m one person who is convinced that she knows what the hell she’s doing when she’s talking about this stuff…
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@ CD
I KNOW YOU WOULDN’T ‘PRECIATE THIS POST!
@Tatted bew! Long time nah talk:-)
@ bnatural
Lets just be real
At this age, all Rihanna is looking for is
until her coochie does this > 
< really her vagina squirting. 
Morning again peeps!
@ XYZ – Hey pretty woman. IKR…YOU ALL IMPORTANT AND THANGS AT THE GIG, you don’t have time for a sista no’mo!
she need to get away from that window, before we have an Atlanta W hotel incident.
Splash Waterfalls
:suck: 
@CD
Hello sweetie
First off… Goood Morning
Second.. Sandra does have a point. Love should not hurt or hurt you. If you think that love has to hurt to be real, you’ve just accepted that’s all you are worth having is painful love. Now I HOPE HOPE HOPE this doesn’t make Redeem magically appear but the bible has it right:
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
New International Version (NIV)
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love doesn’t hope you don’t get smacked or punched or cheated on this week, Love doesn’t cause you stress or anxiety. Love is suppose to be lovely…
That is all…
cougar lover says:
she need to get away from that window, before we have an Atlanta W hotel incident.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AWWWW MAN! 
Tatted, I’m Hony baby… And yes I left the R out intentionally.
@Tatted I Knooowww:-( Surprised Im able to get on now SMH
Ohh tatted I just bought the BEST bronzer EVER! Guerlin (sp) Terracota! I freakin LOVE it!
@Feline and Naija! Hello Ladies!
<— IS REALLY HATING 69 RETT ABOUT NAH!
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
New International Version (NIV)
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love doesn’t hope you don’t get smacked or punched or cheated on this week, Love doesn’t cause you stress or anxiety. Love is suppose to be lovely…
That is all…
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YES!!!!!
Naija, Tatted, Fe, Saucey, Wut, Yso, Mama, Love
The Makeup Maven says:
Fe, YSO, XYZ –
I THINK I GOT EVERYONE ELSE EARLIER TA’DAY!
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WUT ABOUT ME HARPO?
I agree, love doesn’t have to hurt to be real, but when did Rihanna say that it did? That’s what I’m not seeing.
@Wut
I whole-heartedly agree that love should not hurt, but I also don’t think Rih is taking the question or the topic all that seriously…I think she’s just talking and trying to sound interesting and fresh with her comments while promoting her new movie…honestly…
Fefe
it’s coming 
“I almost cried when I read that last line. I wish I could hug Rihanna and tell her that men aren’t all like her alcoholic dad, who forced her to sit up all night searching the skies for space ships and aliens.
I wish I could tell her that men aren’t all abusive like her father or Chris Brown — and that love doesn’t hurt. Love heals wounded souls like hers. And she already has healing love all around her. She just doesn’t know where to look.”~SANDRA ROSE
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Translation:
“Please give me a chance Rihanna! I’ll show you how much I love you.”
@ 69 – Why I said “hony” in my head and just busted out laffin! IHATE’CHU SO BADLY. But I feel you kind sir. Bish on horn dawg STATUS!
It’s good though………………TRUST ME!
CD Yso FeFE Wut Tatted Lovezoe Saucey
The Makeup Maven says:
@ bnatural
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@ XYZ – Well, I’m glad that you are able to join us. It’s nice seeing that lovely face of yours!
@Wut
@ WUT
YOU HADN’T STROLLED YOUR AZZ UP IN HEAH YET. ANYWAYS, I THOUGHT YOU WERE IN VEGAS, SPENDING MY HARD “TRICKED FO’” MONEY!! 
Tatted
That’s how people in Atlanta say it. It’s a lot of words they slay down here.
@Mama
bnatural – OOOH, YOU THROWING A BISH A KISS???
*applies lemonade flavored lipgloss*
Man, I just don’t care™ says:
“I almost cried when I read that last line. I wish I could hug Rihanna and tell her that men aren’t all like her alcoholic dad, who forced her to sit up all night searching the skies for space ships and aliens.
I wish I could tell her that men aren’t all abusive like her father or Chris Brown — and that love doesn’t hurt. Love heals wounded souls like hers. And she already has healing love all around her. She just doesn’t know where to look.”~SANDRA ROSE
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Translation:
“Please give me a chance Rihanna! I’ll show you how much I love you.”
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Too cute but I have to still
Only cause you had me going with the open letter then you coem in a save the day…
Yikes…Great Whites,Hammerheads,or Tiger Sharks??
@ 69 – Well, I ain’t gon EEEM hate on how dey say it down there. CUZ I BET that when they get to that point (HONY vs. HORNY), ain’t nobody given 2 shyts if the proper pronunciation is being used!
SHY, I’M HONY!
@Man
exactly!
Tatted exactly.
Rih has issues but people let her slide cause they think she’s hot.
@Man
@xamay where you been guhl
@SIS I FOUND ME A TRAVELING BUDDY!!
I SOO ESSITED!!
*cues Whitney’s Why Does It Hurt So Bad*
Why does it hurt so bad
Why do I feel so sad
*Whitney said you’sa damn lie*
Enough of this BS already damn!
Riri is acting age appropriately, shyt I was zip dayum fool at 24, so were a lot of us . So what she’s
a little weed ok (a lot) and? So, she’s drankin, only difference is her life is in a fishbowl and ours isn’t. She’s dated the wrong men, hell some of us are CURRENTLY dating the wrong men, big fuggin deal 
Riri, keep enjoying life, do you huntee!
Can I just repeat that Michael Ealybis a gorgeous specimen of a man. He was on the radio this morning, whew!
PHROOO
@ SIS – Did’ju! Awwww shyt. I ain’t mad! When the traveling ‘rangements happening???
@YSO I agree and the problem is once you put the persona out ‘I don’t give a fcuk’ people tend to charge it up until it’s too late then after most people are “she was crying for help” so yeah I’m with you
indeed
FayFay
@yso
oh your just not going to speak to me!!! *side eye heffa*
@ PHRO – I see, shyt. Depending on the type of shark’ll let’chu know where this bish head is at!
@ Saucy Mamma CD
Feline Feminine says:
@Wut
I whole-heartedly agree that love should not hurt, but I also don’t think Rih is taking the question or the topic all that seriously…I think she’s just talking and trying to sound interesting and fresh with her comments while promoting her new movie…honestly…
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Maybe so and we may be reading more into it, but I have always been taught what comes out your mouth is mostly what is in your heart, especially given that it was a spontaneous response I think she believes that love is worth the risk. Alot of people believe that. Many women stay with the one’s they love despite the pain of physical or emotional abuse, why? Because they love them and they have put in the “time” which I personally translate into I have did my bid (as in jail) and my reward for the punishment I received is he will stay and I have someone at home and I am not alone… but is it worth it?
Phro
Tatted
<– white towel (for if your love hurts) Throw it in!
Xyz
Fi
WUT
Saucey
CD
Screwball
&even Man
SIS MIDDLE OF MAY OR END…
WE STILL GOTS TO DECIDE WICH CITY.. SHE WANTS TO GO TO NEW ORLEANS OR ATLANTA.. ME I WANT THE OCEAN MIAMI OR LONG BEACH.. 
*scrolled back up and realized that @ CD said “Saints and Aint’s!”
PHRO
FUKN TEZZAZ 
ESSCARED THE CHIT OUT OF ME!!
@Lake
umm where are you going??
@ Smurfette – I’m getting the esssstra hug???
<— juss for you
@ SIS – Awww shyt! I
boff New Orleans and ATL! I can’t decide which one I’ve had more fun at….NEW ORLEANS, I JUSS KEPT GETTIN’ CALLED “HEY REDBONE, HEY REDBONE!” 
@SAUCE IDK YET.. WE LOOKING INTO IT.. ITS BETWEEN NEW ORLEANS.. ATLANTA.. MIAMI LONG BEACH..
WHAT U THINK? I NEED A VACAY YO!!
Fay
(on both cheeks like the French do) 
Good day @Phro &Yso
@Maven Exactly!
@Laker Awww
@Saucey
Yall
IDK whats going on with Rhi but love starts with self first. I want her to go and find her old stylist STAT!
hugs: @Yall
Sandra maybe u should save your hugs for Tiny I believe she is the one who could use about 100 of dem thangs
SIS I WANT TO GO TO MIAMI FOR THE CHICOS.. THEY GOT LOTS OF CUBANS..PUERTO RICANS..
Ty
@Lakes
I wanted to go to Miami for my 30th but change of plans. I will be in Chicago with my Girlfriend and my sister…
So I say Miami
@ TY –
@CD
<— HATES CD'S GRAVI!
Speaking of Gravis, can anyone PLEASE tell me what the hell was going on in IGO’s gravi yesterday??? It looked like someone “earlin’” at the toilet but I’m quite sure that’s not what it was!
CD SUUP!
BUT THE HOMEGIRL WANTS NEW ORLEANS OR ATL.. 
BUT WHAT WOULD WE DO IN NEW ORLEANS?? ATL?? I NEED THE OCEAN!
SAUCE THATS WHAT I SAY MIAMI!!
Whats up folks
@IGo please see #100
Thank you Naija!
@YALL
Good day to you too.
NEVERMIND – I SEE ESSSSACTLY WHAT ‘OL GIRL IS DOING in IGO’s gravi! Niiiiice, real niiiice!
The Makeup Maven says:
Speaking of Gravis, can anyone PLEASE tell me what the hell was going on in IGO’s gravi yesterday??? It looked like someone “earlin’” at the toilet but I’m quite sure that’s not what it was!
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Use your Head
SIS
SHE BUSY!!
!*LaKErCHiC@*! says:
@SAUCE IDK YET.. WE LOOKING INTO IT.. ITS BETWEEN NEW ORLEANS.. ATLANTA.. MIAMI LONG BEACH.. WHAT U THINK? I NEED A VACAY YO!!
I have to go into workout OT before hitting Miami 
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I say the NO or Mia. The Essence Fest. is coming up in the NO but its hot az hell
TaBew
GM hunty!
hey sug!
<<—glad ur ok baby Tee, my cuz was in his bathtub in the fetal position while his roof was being torn off by a tornado
sup girlie?
YALL
NAIJA & Lakes
YSO
FeFe
Phro
AUNTIE
ERRYBODY GM!!!!
@ SIS & BRO – YEAH. I alrett peeped that shyt out! I’mma need to stop eeeem looking at IGO’s gravis cuz this fool got me all discombobulated and shyt!
<—–Sitting at my desk listening to "The Motto" trying not to break out into a full out "Dougie"
@TY NO..
FAYLA!!
@Phro
dont do it
They not ready…lol
The Makeup Maven says:
@ SIS & BRO – YEAH. I alrett peeped that shyt out! I’mma need to stop eeeem looking at IGO’s gravis cuz this fool got me all discombobulated and shyt!
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SIS U JUST INNOCENT U DONT KNOW THE NAZZTI CHIT IGO BE POSTING
Tatted, that was because I missed your “hello” to me earlier.
@Saucey It’s starting at my shoulders
Morning!
I love this one!
I need that skirt she has on!
BECAUSE PHRO WAS LISTENING TO THAT I HAD TO TURN UP MY MUSIC!!!
This right here is my swag
All the girls are on me, damn
Everybody pay attention
This right here is my pretty boy swag (ayeee)
Pretty boy swag(ayye)x3
Girls on my **** when I pretty boy swag
Girls scream my name when I pretty boy swag
Watch me pretty boy swag (ayye)x4
Girls on my **** when I pretty boy swag
Girls scream my name when I pretty boy swag
Souljer!
@Saucey Go in son!!!
YALL
IM GOOD
@phro-no more Motto and no more Douglasing please!
@Gypsy It’s like my morning
tho….
Phrozen1der says:
<—–Sitting at my desk listening to "The Motto" trying not to break out
<<<what I look like doing the Katt daddy from behind
into a full out "Dougie"
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oh so somma yall is BLIND to my font today huh? ok then
@Fayla
FAYLA
FAYLA sun
ed beauty thank you…I was stuck in the women’s nursing room with other workers who I didn’t know or care to know 
KyCakes (cake, cake, cake, cake, cake)
@FAY
IM HUNGRY!
Hey Fayla,Lakes,Naija,WUT and Kycakes.
<— DOUGIES FOR @ PHRO SO HE WON'T HAVE TO!
*waits for Phro to say Furious Dougie*
Fay, did it arrive?
@LAKES
You are always hungry chica
@ BRO – Real talk! Bish on thigh shake status!
@ SIS – Oooh, I can believe IGO be a nasssssi one!
@KY, GYPSY
SAUCE
BUT ALWAYS TO DANG LAZY TO GET UP AND GET SOMETHING 
NAZZTI
SIS
xamayca says:
Ummm Okaaayyy. *confusedface*
I really dont believe Rhi is obsessing about CB or even cares…it kills me how people think they know you personally based on pictures and tweets. Rhi dont give a damn what anyone else thinks.
@LAKES
AWE
LETS KEEP THIS PARTY GOING!!!
Wobbledy wobble, wo-wo-wobble, wobbin’
Ass so fat, all these bitches’ p-ssies is throbbin’
Bad bitches, I’m your leader, Phantom by the meter
Somebody point me to the best ass-eater
Tell ‘im “P-ssy clean!” I tell them “P-ssy squeaky!”
Niggas give me brain ’cause all of them niggas geeky
If he got a mandingo, then I buy him a dashiki
And bust this p-ssy open in the islands of Waikikiiiiii…
Kiss my ass and my anus, ’cause it’s finally famous
And it’s finally soft, yeah, it’s finally solved!
I don’t know, man, guess them ass shots were off!
Bitches ain’t poppin’, Google, my ass
Only time you on the net is when you Google my ass
Y-y-you f-ckin’ little whores, fu-f-ckin’ up my decors
Couldn’t get Michael Kors if you was f-ckin’ Michael Kors
B-B-Big Sean, b-boy, how big is you?
Gimme all yo’ money and gimme all yo’ residuals
Then slap it on my ass, ass, ass…
@SAUCE IT IS WET WILD WEDNESDAY
LE GO!! 
!*LaKErCHiC@*! says:
SIS U JUST INNOCENT U DONT KNOW THE NAZZTI CHIT IGO BE POSTING
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I dont KNOW post nasty… what I do is artistic
@ SAUCE – I was just “waukikiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii” YESTI’DAY ON THE BLOG!
IGO
MY BAD U RIGHT ITS “ARTISTIC” 
MORNING TO U TOO SIR
Hi
Well actually, I’m a long time lurker! Don’t know what I’ve been waiting on to start posting. Guess I was being a little shy…
@Tatted – You still mad at me for getting out of pocket yesterday?