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josie68 Joined Mon 11/22/10 Posts: 6172 |
QUOTE: QUOTE: You often sound like you're talking about women in general, rather than your ex or your friends' wives/exes. I have several friends who are married as well and haven't heard these complaints. What planet do you live on? Everywhere I look I see men, walking around like zombies, married to fat, bossy women that keep these men wrapped around their little fingers. The men just keep repeating "Yes dear, yes dear. Whatever you want dear." You never saw my ex's. They put on weight, got bossy and expected obedience Hmm perhaps I should have been the man.
But really I think the problem is that before people are married they dont really show who they are. Whether its a woman or a man, you tend to be more attentive and accepting of things before you actually live together and realities set in. Its not until later that you really get to know a person and their character. Marraige is hard work and without both are able to accept the other and love them for who they are, you are in big trouble. |
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josie68 Joined Mon 11/22/10 Posts: 6172 |
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Missed Anniversaries
I am hopeless at remembering, if my hubby and children didnt remind me of the date, I would definately forget it.
So nope I wouldnt get upset, really anniversary's and valentines are just another day. |
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josie68 Joined Mon 11/22/10 Posts: 6172 |
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Prayer Needed
Keeping you and your family in my prayers
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josie68 Joined Mon 11/22/10 Posts: 6172 |
QUOTE: Everything worth having in life takes some level of effort to obtain. Once it’s in our possession and becomes part of our lives it can take a different level of commitment to maintain and keep it. Each of the following questions revolves around our personal relationships, and relates to what extent we are willing to go to get what we want. 1) You’ve interacted with people on the forums and become friends, now you want to take the friendship to the next level by becoming personally acquainted off boards, are you comfortable contacting them to see if the feeling is mutual, and how would you go about making the deeper connection? 2) You and your friends get along great online and you’ve decided to meet, if you live close by it’s not a problem, but if you live hundreds or thousands of miles apart, how far are you willing to go in order to make the deeper connection? 3) You’ve made the deeper connection and decide to try and make a personal relationship work, how much are you willing to compromise to be with the other person? Are you willing to relocate and trial run a live-in relationship? Can you transfer your employment if you decide to do this? 4) You’ve compromised and relocated, you love your new place of employment, and you and your live-in lover’s status is on cloud nine, life is great, love is intense, will you take things to the next level by getting married? 5) You’ve made a serious error in judgment and hurt your partner significantly, do you apologize and seek forgiveness while also trying to make things right, or do you ignore the damage your actions created and just expect your partner to get over it? 6) Your serious error in judgment has damaged your relationship and has led to a breakup; do you seek revenge, even if it’s just by gossiping about your ex to make others dislike them now that you do, or do you go your separate ways without incident? 1) I would not have a problem contacting anyone who I liked. 2) I happily travelled to meet the man I was interested in. 3) To many children and a family business that I run, so moving has never been an option.
4) I wouldnt like just living together. I grew up being told that if you where good enough to sleep with you are good enough to marry, could be why I have been divorced more than once.
5)Definately appologise, I dont like ignoring problems and cannot stnd upsets or tension. I like everything happy. 6) No way, I would continue being friends and would never speak badly about an ex, Lifes to short to bother being yucky. |
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josie68 Joined Mon 11/22/10 Posts: 6172 |
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How many kids is too many?
bummer triple post
Edited by josie68 on Wed 02/13/13 02:13 AM
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josie68 Joined Mon 11/22/10 Posts: 6172 |
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How many kids is too many?
I knew I should have waited
Edited by josie68 on Wed 02/13/13 02:14 AM
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josie68 Joined Mon 11/22/10 Posts: 6172 |
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How many kids is too many?
I love children, so it wouldnt have mattered how many my man had.
However I have 6 children and there are rules and things that are acceptable and things that are not. My ex had 10 children, his 10 and my 6 all got on and had no troubles living together as a family, we had chaos, just because their where alot. but our home was always fun and full of laughter, nobody was rude and everyone new how to share. Privacy had to be respected as did each others feelings and belongings. However I would find it very hard to have a child or children come into my family and be rude, hurtful or selfish. I would expect a time of adjustment, however if it didnt seem like a child would be happy with my children and us being a part of their family I would never go any further then friendship, the hurt for both his and my children would not be worth it. |
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josie68 Joined Mon 11/22/10 Posts: 6172 |
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IMPROPER DRESS
I guess it all depends on how you grew up and where, also maybe how you feel about yourself
For me, I like to show cleavage, (not that I have that much), so do my daughters, I dont find that a problem, I am not affended if someone looks, it really is no big deal, its just how i dress. There will always be someone no matter what you do who does not approve of something that you do, say or wear, If there are dress rules, I abide by them as do my children. If not we can wear what we choose, boobs bum or whatever showing, nobody really has to look if they dont want to.
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josie68 Joined Mon 11/22/10 Posts: 6172 |
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women and tattoos?
QUOTE: Be it small or big tattoo, man or woman, is a sin in the side of God, and on the judgement day you answer question concerning that. I've never noticed that in the Bible |
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josie68 Joined Mon 11/22/10 Posts: 6172 |
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women and tattoos?
I love tattoos,
However I think depending on what you do and what you want to continue to do that you need to be concious of what and where you put them. Half of advice to my children who have had tattoos was to keep them where they could be hidden. One of my sons had a tattoo placed on his arm when we visited America this year, he is 16 and is planning on joining the army of starting an apprenticship next year so a tattoo wont make much of a difference when he applies for a job. However, just in case he changes his mind, we have kept it so that for now it will be under his sleeve in a T Shirt. Regardless of who you are, you will be judged by what you have on your body when you apply for certain work. |
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josie68 Joined Mon 11/22/10 Posts: 6172 |
Don;t worry about it, it happens to everyone, just sort through the rubbish and find someone real.
It's exactly the same as off the computer, you just sort out who is a decent person and get to know them. Plus you meat some pretty neat people along the way, so just appreciate the friends you will make and laugh at the rest. |
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josie68 Joined Mon 11/22/10 Posts: 6172 |
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Are You Living Your Dreams?
Yep, I think i am, theres a couple of things i might change slightly but otherwise, its better than I dreamed.
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josie68 Joined Mon 11/22/10 Posts: 6172 |
The fact that my hubby had a child and had full time care of him was one of the reasons I was attracted to him, it just made me more secure in him, knowing that he took the responisibility of his son seriously. i have children so didnt want a man who wasnt interested in children.
so just find the right person. |
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josie68 Joined Mon 11/22/10 Posts: 6172 |
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WOULD YOU DATE YOURSELF?
Nope, I would drive myself nuts
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josie68 Joined Mon 11/22/10 Posts: 6172 |
Everything.
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josie68 Joined Mon 11/22/10 Posts: 6172 |
Sending you all my love.
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josie68 Joined Mon 11/22/10 Posts: 6172 |
Sometimes eloping is easier, it saves any hassel and it would be fun to sneak off with the man you love and get married.
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josie68 Joined Mon 11/22/10 Posts: 6172 |
Hmmmm I would surely rather chat a while first and make friends before dating some random, just from the few words he posts and the pictures he puts up on his profile.
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josie68 Joined Mon 11/22/10 Posts: 6172 |
QUOTE: This thread is really old, but I think I forgot to come back and read these posts. All of them are very good to read, thank you. I must say though, that I was not referring to small mannerisms that I couldn't tolerate like toilet seats and mustard dripped on boxers. lol I was an extremely happy person when I met this guy. This is one of the things he said he fell in love with was my humor, and happy go lucky nature. I don't hang out with people for them to make me happy lol, they hang out with ME because I am happy and they want me to make them laugh and be happy. I am talking about a total disregard of attention and affection. He professed and displayed a huge amount of love and affection, and expressed it openly. He was attentive and offered to buy all my friends their round of drinks etc. Then he moved in, and I found out he could squeeze a nickle till the buffalo poops, and rarely got up from his computer except to go to work and smoke. He took my company for granted for the next 3 years. Yes, I gave it that long because he kept telling me he understood what I was saying, and he would work on it. The compliance kept me hopeful. I had a very deep love and attraction for this man. So a very high tolerance to small things. I never complained much about small things. I told him to NOT worry about the toilet seat. I think it's funny when I don't look and fall in the bowl in the middle of the night. lmao. He also had several very bad, hurtful addictions and was a convicted felon. I told him in the beginning what my boundaries were with porn, lies, betrayal, etc...he stepped over them all. I did leave finally. But he is still after me. He says he wants to change, and gets impatient with me that I don't trust him now. wth? I agree with one of the posters here that you have to roll the dice no matter what. You will not know what it's like to live with someone until you do. You can waste a year going slow to make sure it all fits, just to move in together and find out he's a big fat turd wrapped in a pretty paper. I don't like wasted time. I like to know right away who someone is inside. I don't want some fake crap to get used to just to have him pull out the con artist card.... And next time, if there is one, I will boot him out after 30 days of ignoring me. I have to agree with you, wasting time is so pointless. You have to give everything a go and see where it gets you, then look back and fix it the next time. it'show we learn. |
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josie68 Joined Mon 11/22/10 Posts: 6172 |
I'm happy to forgive anything.
But like RoamingOrator Once you break my trust it's gone. and once the trust is gone the relationship is over. So although I would forgive a parter i would not stay, i would just be a forgiving friend. |