Intense

Never betray my family past, present, or future.

Never settle for short term answers when the solution is really a long term answer.

Never give up today for yesterday or tomorrow.

I probably should more than I do but I care very little how other people view my choices. I am the one that has to live with most of them. If they effect someone else is when it gets a little harder.

I think what some people consider flaws others see as assets. My late husband was a wonderful step father but he told me he was attracted to me because he did not want to go through the infant stage of parenting.

Usually because they can not adjust to change. No one is exactly the same year after year. Experience and time changes people. We can sometimes try to make that easier for our partner but if they can't accept it it is their problem. Life long love takes rejuvinateing the love over and over.

I always keep in mind they are for entertainment but if I had to put money on someones advice I would buy Dr. Ruth. Think you have to factor in a person's history. Sometimes I think relationships and sex lives are so over scrutinized that it takes all the fun out of it.

My brother survived the war but he couldn't survive the memories. Drank himself to death.

Why do you care if and Ex is here? Just about everybody here is somebody's Ex. You don't have to talk to him or accept his mail. If he treats people bad they will ignore him. If not he will find someone and move on.

Yea what he said.

Think I need a medication vacation, seems like I am in a time warp, it is all good. Party on.

I like music but rarely turn it on.

One of the things I miss the most not having a mate is sleeping together and feeling his heartbeat.

I live like a pauper but eat like a Princess.

I am most peaceful when I am crafting/gardening.

My best moments are when I have made someones return home, birthday, wedding perfect.

The best day of my life is when both my sons graduated.

The computer is a blessing and a curse in my life.

I think it is possible. I don't know that they would be that much alike but maybe some similarities. Especially if the loss of the first love was from death. Think it might be like when you have love for each of your children. You don't necessarily love one more than the other but for who they uniquely are. I don't think we have a quota for love.

Actually I kind of think that is romantic. He smelled something that he liked and thought of his wife and wanted it for her: not someone else. Beats the heck out of some gifts guys pick out. Sometimes when a guy gets a gift it doesn't make sense but you can be sure if you act like a Biotch about it eventually he will quit bothering.

I like Bed Bath & Beyond just some of their stuff is expensive to cover the high priced mall rent.

Sorry about looseing your pets.

I am too much of a softy to go through that is why I am not up for pets.

From the little that you have revealed about yourself in this thread I would not recommend you going to military service.
The one absolute is you have to have the personality that you can totally submit to command authority no matter how senseless you might think it is. If you have a low frusteration tolerance you will be in melt down and then add being put out as yet another strike against you.
What the recruiter tells you is about as close to the truth as a whore telling you she is a virgin. The facts are once you sign the dotted line you are GI Government Issue (Property) and you cease to exist for any other purpose. They will use you as they please. Say what you want about a contract; you can't sue the military. All they will tell you when you want the training you sign up for is either you have washed out in that program or they will offer it later. You will STILL have to go through a civilian training and certification to qualify for outside employment and if you are over 34 when they finally let go of you You can forget it. That many municipalities do not want to hld your job open when you are repeatedly called back up it can actually be harder to find that kind of employment.
If you are extreamly smart, have excellent focus, and can work chroniclly sleep deprived, and don't mind your personal dreams being put on hold for maybe the next twenty years you can advance in rank and pay but the only way you will break even is if you remain single and live in the barracks. With more and more military houseing being sold off or condemed you may not have a choice in paying HUGE houseing costs to live within the restricted distance that is allowed.
If you have drug or alcohol problems they are most likely going to get a LOT worse because they are readily available night and day. Sometimes more so than running water. However when you crash and burn as a GI that means prison where ever you get busted and career over. If you have a mental breakdown you can count on courtmartial being more likely than treatment. Treatment modalities are nortoriously out of date. When they chapter you out they will stick you in a local state mental hospital and they will turn you to the street. The number of Homeless vets is a national disgrace but the public is totally unsympathetic toward spending more money to "fix" you. The lines for treatment at a VA facility are long and they are not going to give you a disability check for anything drug or alcohol related or amplified.
What few people talk about is the number of military members that end up severly injured in training or assaults from other military members. If you are not a "people" person and can not build alliances quickly and repeatedly you can count on being on the bottom of the pecking order.
It is nearly impossible to maintain friendships and family ties as a service member. You will not get home for holidays, birthdays, marriages, births, or deaths. They will make a big hoo-do about telling you how you can read to your kid over the computer but the reality is you won't see them but they will take child support out of your check and any other debt you run up regardless if you are left penniless. The divorce rate is very high as spouses get tired of the problems and absences and readily available substitutes.
If you are extreamly mentally tough, in excellent physical health, and don't need a lot of external validation go for it but don't go because you think it is romantic because it isn't.

It is tough when our kids ask us for things we can't get. It is important that you don't go mommy shopping first in a relationship or you are probably dooming your future to another failed relationship.

As someone who didn't have a Mom I have to say it isn't easy but if people let you have relationships with them without trying to step in and be your Mom you can learn what you need to know from the good people in your life and survive with the love of a single parent. What makes life really suck is haveing people constantly making you feel less because you love your Mom regardless of what the relationship turned out or that you can never be a whole person without a family.

Happy Birthday Birthday Buddy. Hey anything that gets us cake and ice-cream can't be all bad.

Someone who loves me as much as I love everyone else.

I think it is so important to have your partner's back. You better than anyone should know their strengths or weaknesses and passions. Passions need to be treasured but handled realisticly. I think being there and supporting a spouses efforts is crucial as long as you don't try to infantilize them, give them a false view of where they are at, or find your identity in who they are. If you become one with another yes your strengths can compliment their weaknesses but it is important not to pirate their successes or be a scapegoat for their failures. To be loving and giving is part of a good relationship but being a doormat isn't. Sometimes the most important thing you can do is not only celebrate their victories but keep the losses in porportion with love and approval for just who they are.

Whoever the people are that bombed that school in Russia