All I can say is WOW, what are the ingredients?
You must be one beautiful woman.
This is the person you married???
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You must be one beautiful woman.
Pappy
Living the Dream
We met at a diner in her hometown. I was 17 and she just turned 16. Somehow, as young as we were, I knew I had found my soulmate. Five months later, we were married while I was home on leave from the Army.
This coming December it will be 66 wonderful years. We have been blessed with 3 children, 9 grand children and 18 great grandchildren. Now, in our old age, we are taking care of each other the best we can and still loving every minute of our lives together.
This coming December it will be 66 wonderful years. We have been blessed with 3 children, 9 grand children and 18 great grandchildren. Now, in our old age, we are taking care of each other the best we can and still loving every minute of our lives together.
Yes, that is it! If we could take a survey for this what would it reveal?
That would be a huge time saver for many.
Is there a wonder how this develops, the answer is a huge deal maker!
Imagine, all these eons all the people it would help to whip up what arranged marriages half conquered, yet we just read here the secrets of other lucky partnerships that are thriving.
What a win-win situation if we could only find the package and buy it instead of flip flopping our way through the lawyers areas of divorce. The only ones that gain from these is the Lawyers.
The pain that could be avoided. Now if any bots out there.......maybe another issue a race to find a solution, this would break all the records. The need is above and beyond this world!.
At 72, my time is wearing thin. Hmmmm, I rest my case....if only .....I'd be a zillionairer
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Oh, my God, with a capital G.We met at a diner in her hometown. I was 17 and she just turned 16. Somehow, as young as we were, I knew I had found my soulmate. Five months later, we were married while I was home on leave from the Army.
This coming December it will be 66 wonderful years. We have been blessed with 3 children, 9 grand children and 18 great grandchildren. Now, in our old age, we are taking care of each other the best we can and still loving every minute of our lives together.
Hearing this is amazing coming from a man saying this is so beautiful!
There truly needs to be a study on this planet.....why are some blessed.
Like a DNA for people matching that would be a guaranteed success
I think I've come up with a idea as in a ....who was that man before Edison, I do believevI am onto yet another brainstorm that someone else will open up the floodgates to the future probably when there's flying cars yet I will not be around to have the joy to feel.
It makes me wonder if this post is captured in a time capsule, will I be rewarded with the before Edison great invention starter road map into something the future will develop him maybe a journalistic view, along with a medical DNA expert linking their heads together.
I think I've come up with a idea as in a ....who was that man before Edison, I do believevI am onto yet another brainstorm that someone else will open up the floodgates to the future probably when there's flying cars yet I will not be around to have the joy to feel.
It makes me wonder if this post is captured in a time capsule, will I be rewarded with the before Edison great invention starter road map into something the future will develop him maybe a journalistic view, along with a medical DNA expert linking their heads together.
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Wondering again is this the ingredients for failed marriages?
Plus, what about these men, who wander in and out of relationships, as human nature is the top ingredient on these misleading packages.
Why, the Lawyers, make out big time. Only ones so far gaining ground.
How can this war be fought to a more win-win situation.
I know this thread has taken me in and many will look at it as a joke.
Maybe my granddon, will benefit by it way into the future, I do hope so for he deserves it after losing his mother at 4 yrs old.
spectratg
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I met my wife Patricia (born on St. Patrick’s Day) in early 1970 at a Catholic young adult club in Washington, D.C., which was associated with the church where we were married at on October 9, 1971. I had known her for about 6 months before I asked her out, but once we started dating it didn’t take me very long (2 months) to realize that she was the woman that I was in love with and wanted to marry. You see we had initially gotten to know each other as friends, and both of us had been dating other members of the club the first time that we met. Patricia wasn’t quite as convinced; I followed her around her apartment as she was folding towels and trying to change the subject, but true love won out with an eventual “yes” from her (December 30, 1970).
My wife passed away 8 years ago. My family (4 daughters and their spouses and my five grandchildren) had a beautiful, fun-filled outdoor celebration on what would have been our 50th wedding anniversary, October 9, 2021.
JustBonee
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Same here... I met my husband at age 15
.... after 49 years of marriage, I lost him to health issues, and it was a hard blow to take. That was almost 10 years ago.
Bella
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A business colleague of my husband's got married many years ago. We attended the wedding and my husband was introducing me to some of the people I hadn't met. He introduced me to one fellow who said to my husband, "I pictured you married to a chubby blonde and here you are with a svelte brunette!" Thinking it is one thing, lol! I felt like saying to him, "At first I thought you were a gentleman but you're kind of a jerk."
I never thought I'd get married. You know you get to a certain age and your relatives start in on you. "When are you going to get married?!" ... yadda yadda, blah, blah, blah, lol. I'd finally had enough of it from one aunt and said to her, "You're right. I should follow your example, get married, and be as happy as you are." She was on husband #3. To be fair, she was never divorced, she killed the other two, lol. I'm convinced of it. She eventually killed the third one, too. If she'd been younger when he died, no doubt, there would've been a #4.
The reason I didn't think I'd get married is because my parents were married six times between them. Yeeess, you read that right. Six! You think you're >>
<< try it from this end. Follow me here. My father had been married before he met my mother, Marriage #1, so my mother was his second wife. Marriage #2. My parents divorced because my father was a jerk and cheated on my mother. How did that happen? They used to go out with another couple, I'll call them Dave and Dorothy. You can fill in the blanks. D&D divorced, my parents divorced, my father married Dorothy. Marriage #3. Still with me? Two years later my mother met a man. She married him and he became my stepfather. Marriage #4. My father was married to Dorothy until she died. It wasn't long before my father remarried, again. Marriage #5. #5 divorced him. On to #6. Long before Alec Baldwin starred in the movie, I called him "The Marrying Man". You can see why I was hesitant to get married, lol.
I met my husband when I was twenty-six. He was thirty-one. I never thought I'd meet my future husband in a bar!
We were introduced by a mutual friend. We got married four years later. We took our time because we wanted to be sure. See above. 
It was the best decision I ever made in my life. We were crazy about each other. He was wonderful to me. He was the kind of man women want to marry. I was a very fortunate woman. Even though we had a lot in common, and had a blast together, we had our differences. I didn't wanna marry my clone. 
He died suddenly four years ago. I miss his company, his kindness, his patience, his counsel, his generosity, his smile, his laugh, his voice, his blue eyes, his beautiful feet, lol. My heart aches for him. I miss him every second of every day and will for the rest of my life. He was my boy. 
Do opposites attract? Can it/does it work? I think it depends on just how opposite you really are and how tolerant you both are of your differences. At first being attracted to someone who's different from you can be exciting... maybe it arouses your curiosity ... different lifestyle, different taste in food, different activities ... especially if you're physically attracted to them ... but that can quickly wear thin if you're always butting heads and disagreeing about what you deem important. Committing to and building a life with someone who's too different can be difficult and frustrating. However if you enjoy the constant push/pull of that kind of relationship and it doesn't drive you to suffocate them in their sleep, go for it! Personally I'd only be attracted so far to someone I had little in common with no matter how physically desirable they were. Some people are blinded by physical beauty/their desires and their brain fogs up. I think that's where a lotta people get f'ed up in choosing the wrong partner.
When first meeting, people usually put their best foot forward. You can't get to know someone overnight. It takes time to really get to know someone ... to see how they are in day to day life, how they act around your family/friends, how they act around their family/friends ... how they react to problems/challenges that surface ... and how they treat you over time ... do they support you? ... can you trust them? ... do they make you feel secure? ... do you share the same goals/values/dreams? Some couples meet and jump in because they're absolutely sure they belong together, and they live happily ever after. Others rush in and end up wanting to jump out the third floor window head first.
There can be physiological/biochemical reasons for later coming to the realization that you married the "wrong" person. It's about how chemistry/biology gets in the way of what Mother Nature intended. We can take a deeper dive into this if you're interested. It's an eye-opener.
Ruby
I never thought I'd get married. You know you get to a certain age and your relatives start in on you. "When are you going to get married?!" ... yadda yadda, blah, blah, blah, lol. I'd finally had enough of it from one aunt and said to her, "You're right. I should follow your example, get married, and be as happy as you are." She was on husband #3. To be fair, she was never divorced, she killed the other two, lol. I'm convinced of it. She eventually killed the third one, too. If she'd been younger when he died, no doubt, there would've been a #4.
The reason I didn't think I'd get married is because my parents were married six times between them. Yeeess, you read that right. Six! You think you're >>
<< try it from this end. Follow me here. My father had been married before he met my mother, Marriage #1, so my mother was his second wife. Marriage #2. My parents divorced because my father was a jerk and cheated on my mother. How did that happen? They used to go out with another couple, I'll call them Dave and Dorothy. You can fill in the blanks. D&D divorced, my parents divorced, my father married Dorothy. Marriage #3. Still with me? Two years later my mother met a man. She married him and he became my stepfather. Marriage #4. My father was married to Dorothy until she died. It wasn't long before my father remarried, again. Marriage #5. #5 divorced him. On to #6. Long before Alec Baldwin starred in the movie, I called him "The Marrying Man". You can see why I was hesitant to get married, lol.I met my husband when I was twenty-six. He was thirty-one. I never thought I'd meet my future husband in a bar!
We were introduced by a mutual friend. We got married four years later. We took our time because we wanted to be sure. See above. It was the best decision I ever made in my life. We were crazy about each other. He was wonderful to me. He was the kind of man women want to marry. I was a very fortunate woman. Even though we had a lot in common, and had a blast together, we had our differences. I didn't wanna marry my clone. He died suddenly four years ago. I miss his company, his kindness, his patience, his counsel, his generosity, his smile, his laugh, his voice, his blue eyes, his beautiful feet, lol. My heart aches for him. I miss him every second of every day and will for the rest of my life. He was my boy. Do opposites attract? Can it/does it work? I think it depends on just how opposite you really are and how tolerant you both are of your differences. At first being attracted to someone who's different from you can be exciting... maybe it arouses your curiosity ... different lifestyle, different taste in food, different activities ... especially if you're physically attracted to them ... but that can quickly wear thin if you're always butting heads and disagreeing about what you deem important. Committing to and building a life with someone who's too different can be difficult and frustrating. However if you enjoy the constant push/pull of that kind of relationship and it doesn't drive you to suffocate them in their sleep, go for it! Personally I'd only be attracted so far to someone I had little in common with no matter how physically desirable they were. Some people are blinded by physical beauty/their desires and their brain fogs up. I think that's where a lotta people get f'ed up in choosing the wrong partner.
When first meeting, people usually put their best foot forward. You can't get to know someone overnight. It takes time to really get to know someone ... to see how they are in day to day life, how they act around your family/friends, how they act around their family/friends ... how they react to problems/challenges that surface ... and how they treat you over time ... do they support you? ... can you trust them? ... do they make you feel secure? ... do you share the same goals/values/dreams? Some couples meet and jump in because they're absolutely sure they belong together, and they live happily ever after. Others rush in and end up wanting to jump out the third floor window head first.
There can be physiological/biochemical reasons for later coming to the realization that you married the "wrong" person. It's about how chemistry/biology gets in the way of what Mother Nature intended. We can take a deeper dive into this if you're interested. It's an eye-opener.
Ruby
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Sassycakes
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In our case looks didn't come into the picture. My Husband always got teased that he looked like Buddy Holly and except for my hair color I got teased that I looked like Patty Duke or Sally Fields. I think it was our personalities.
jujube
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I had a blind date with my husband and then a second date. I wasn't "smitten" but he sure was.
He went back to California where he was stationed and I headed back to college on the east coast.
What followed was 9 months of phone calls and letters. We decided to get married before he went overseas and he got home just in time to get a tux and go with me to grab a couple of wedding rings and pick up the marriage license. I had to go apply for the license with a Sarge from the local Army base who had all our approved paperwork from the Army in order to get past the 3-day waiting period.
I remember getting the "cold sweats" the day I was waiting for him to arrive. What if, after a few hours together, we just didn't click together? What if he had bad habits I couldn't endure? What if, what if, what if??? I threw up twice that morning.
A cheap honeymoon and he flew away. I followed three months later.
Did we *really* know each other? Hell, no! If we did, we probably wouldn't have married each other. We had to grow up together and we had to do it in a foreign land with a baby 18 months later.
We had 37 years of a good marriage until his death.
He went back to California where he was stationed and I headed back to college on the east coast.
What followed was 9 months of phone calls and letters. We decided to get married before he went overseas and he got home just in time to get a tux and go with me to grab a couple of wedding rings and pick up the marriage license. I had to go apply for the license with a Sarge from the local Army base who had all our approved paperwork from the Army in order to get past the 3-day waiting period.
I remember getting the "cold sweats" the day I was waiting for him to arrive. What if, after a few hours together, we just didn't click together? What if he had bad habits I couldn't endure? What if, what if, what if??? I threw up twice that morning.
A cheap honeymoon and he flew away. I followed three months later.
Did we *really* know each other? Hell, no! If we did, we probably wouldn't have married each other. We had to grow up together and we had to do it in a foreign land with a baby 18 months later.
We had 37 years of a good marriage until his death.
Em in Ohio
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I believe it was George Burns who said: "Age is a matter of mind, and if you don't mind, it doesn't matter. (-:
I met my husband at age fifteen, we could not even drive yet. We were both rather shy and unsure about ourselves. We got to know each other at school. Once we could drive to see each other everything changed. I met his family and he mine. I loved his parents and his large extended family; I did not have that. His family embraced me as one of their own. I was never so happy. We married at 20 and I got to live a life with a man I adored and a huge, loud and loving family. We built a wonderful family, spent every holiday, every Sunday at his parents. There was no one that was not welcome in their home. As I look back, I can say that I was truly blessed to be included in this family. It ended when my husband died and 9 days later my MIL died. Truly, the most devasting things in my life. I still have not regained any strength to keep going, I have done it, but I still long for what I can't have.
I could start a "Quotes file" on all the wise things Devi says!