Finding Love in the Era of Covid

Murrmurr said:
I'm just saying, it makes sense. Women shouldn't marry a guy who's under 26, 28, seriously. They're not really ready.
Click to expand...
Hahaha OMG, I've got to tell my wife what a loser she is !

When she married me, I was lacking in almost all of your "qualifications". Let's see---Under 26 (I was 19), discharged from the military 1 year after marriage with our first child due in 2 weeks following the discharge (so- married, one child, no job), still supposedly "full of wild oats", selfish and immature.

Miracles do happen though. We're still plugging along at 87 and 85 with a flock of kids, grands, and greatgrands trailing behind us and thankfully, I did find a job before that first month after discharge was over.:giggle:
 

DaveA said:
Hahaha OMG, I've got to tell my wife what a loser she is !

When she married me, I was lacking in almost all of your "qualifications". Let's see---Under 26 (I was 19), discharged from the military 1 year after marriage with our first child due in 2 weeks following the discharge (so- married, one child, no job), still supposedly "full of wild oats", selfish and immature.

Miracles do happen though. We're still plugging along at 87 and 85 with a flock of kids, grands, and greatgrands trailing behind us and thankfully, I did find a job before that first month after discharge was over.:giggle:
Click to expand...
Double thumbs-up, Dave! :D
But I might give a lot of credit to your wife, yes?
 
Murrmurr said:
If I had the benefit of hindsight I wouldn't have married practically right out of high school. Theses days cultures that pair men in their 30s or 40s with women as young as 18-19 make sense. I'm not talking about where they give a 9 yr old girl to a 75 yr old guy who's practically a corpse already! But like a few places in the eastern hemisphere the guy only marries after he has a good job and he's clean out of wild oats and selfishness, and he's mature enough to protect and provide for his family and put their needs and those of his livelihood before his own.

idk, maybe they don't still do it that way except in outlying tribal areas.
Click to expand...
There is no way when I was 18 or 19 that I would have wanted an "old guy" of 30. And at 18 I was not mature enough for marriage either. We all need to grow up and become our own person before we enter marriage. At 18 we are all babies. None of us are mature enough until we are 30.
 
Phoenix said:
There is no way when I was 18 or 19 that I would have wanted an "old guy" of 30. And at 18 I was not mature enough for marriage either. We all need to grow up and become our own person before we enter marriage. At 18 we are all babies. None of us are mature enough until we are 30.
Click to expand...
My fathers ironic comment comes in handy here, "You should only marry before you have any sense, and after its all gone"! :)
 
Murrmurr said:
Yeah, we really haven't known each other for very long so I was surprised she even brought it up. But in any case, I like living alone. Seems unreasonable for her to be angry at me for that.
Actually, the more I think about it the more I figure it worked out the way it was supposed to. Sure a bummer, tho.
Click to expand...
It was good while it lasted but now it's finished.
 
DaveA said:
Hahaha OMG, I've got to tell my wife what a loser she is !

When she married me, I was lacking in almost all of your "qualifications". Let's see---Under 26 (I was 19), discharged from the military 1 year after marriage with our first child due in 2 weeks following the discharge (so- married, one child, no job), still supposedly "full of wild oats", selfish and immature.

Miracles do happen though. We're still plugging along at 87 and 85 with a flock of kids, grands, and greatgrands trailing behind us and thankfully, I did find a job before that first month after discharge was over.:giggle:
Click to expand...
Sounds like my husband and I. The only ones in the church who thought our marriage would make it, were my husband and I. “Well we ain’t got a barrel of money, maybe we’re ragged and funny. But we’ll travel along, singing our song, side by side.” Became our theme song. 53 years later, it’s been a wonderful ride!!!!!
 
I need to start going to the mail boxes and getting my mail if thats all it takes to meet someone! I would love to meet someone my age or a little older or younger to spend time with. But I want to keep my own condo and spend time there alone if I want to. I like my own company, my books and plants. But it would be nice to have someone over to cook for, spend the night and have breakfast with. Then he could go home and do his thing and I could do mine. I want to pay my own bills, spend time with my "grands" if I want to and he could do the same with his. If we wanted to all have a meal together or visit together, fine. But no marrying for me. Been there, did that. Don't want to move in with anyone either. The office here at the complex has been kind to deliver my mail to me everyday. I might need to rethink that now!
 

Finding Love in the Era of Covid​


Another problem is, with the social distancing, she puckers her lips out as far as she can, I pucker my lips out as far as I can, but our lips still cannot meet..........................and this blowing each other kisses is just a load of 'mullarkey'. :giggle:
 
terry123 said:
I need to start going to the mail boxes and getting my mail if thats all it takes to meet someone! I would love to meet someone my age or a little older or younger to spend time with. But I want to keep my own condo and spend time there alone if I want to. I like my own company, my books and plants. But it would be nice to have someone over to cook for, spend the night and have breakfast with. Then he could go home and do his thing and I could do mine. I want to pay my own bills, spend time with my "grands" if I want to and he could do the same with his. If we wanted to all have a meal together or visit together, fine. But no marrying for me. Been there, did that. Don't want to move in with anyone either. The office here at the complex has been kind to deliver my mail to me everyday. I might need to rethink that now!
Click to expand...
I was all in agreement with you until you got to the “spend the night” part 😂. Is something ever happened to my husband, I would like to meet a nice gay man!
 
Ferocious said:

Finding Love in the Era of Covid​


Another problem is, with the social distancing, she puckers her lips out as far as she can, I pucker my lips out as far as I can, but our lips still cannot meet..........................and this blowing each other kisses is just a load of 'mullarkey'. :giggle:
Click to expand...
We dated from an acceptable distance for a few weeks, mostly meals together at the picnic tables out on the grounds here, sometimes just sitting and chatting or taking walks together. There was no physical contact all that time, just talking and getting to know each other. It was actually kind of cool. Conversation started being about how "safe" we were regarding the virus, which was sorta weird but necessary, and the kisses started only after we were reasonably sure we wouldn't likely infect each other...Love in the Era of Covid.
 
Lara said:
I was MIA for the holidays so just trying to catch up. So...you're saying that when you were 37 years old, she was only 10 years old and now that your 65...she should be okay with a sex only relationship? I love the sound of my feet walking away from something not meant for me. Call me old fashioned 😉
Click to expand...
If she isn't, she can walk away. And I expect she will.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top