Posted on 04/03/2013 10:34:18 PM PDT by Olog-hai
I hate to admit it, but my wife and I did live together for two years before we were married, but I had proposed to her very early on (before we actually moved in together), and I knew her from waaay back in elementary and high school (always had a crush on her). We had have been married sooner, but I blame her sister. Her sister wanted to be married once before my wife was married twice. So, we had to wait an extra year before she hitched the knot.
I know, I know. I still feel guilty about it, but all is good now, we’ve been married 16 years now.
Engaged encounter. Did that.
I wasn’t Catholic, but figured it would be fine.
I got a horrible gastric bug. Spent most of the weekend in the men’s room.
I am convinced the nuns were out to get me.
If a man loves a woman he will want to marry her. It’s that simple.
If that’s the argument for marriage then why not for gays, or groups, or close relatives?
yes, but love doesn’t start with sex.
LOL...
I was in the bathroom too during EEW...
Spent the time wondering what the hell I was doing!!!
Thirty years later, am STILL wondering....
We were both 26 at the time. Most of the othe couples were late teens/-21. My fiancé and I had know each other for years, seriously for a full year.
Listening to these other kids, she and I would look at each other with the thought of, “someone needs to stop these kids...they have no clue what they are getting into.”
27 years later we are still going strong. My guess is the other kids did not fare so well.
That is beautiful Fran.
I am sorry hon for your loss. I don’t know what I would do without my wife...I much prefer to die first selfishly
I watched my grandma live 3 decades without my grandfather but she had 27 grandchildren all nearby and I watched my own mom live another 11 past my dad.
As is often the wont of women in the west where they usually outlive the man.
You and I are similar ages I assume since you married in 78.
I might could have married end of college in 80.
Girls back then usually at a minimum required a committed relationship to sleep with a boy...and many did indeed hold out.
Not like my mother’s 40s and 50s kids where most held out.
Today I employ a number of young men and they tell me 90% of attractive girls who are of age have sex with no strings at all and folks do not even date ..like that is some anachronism.
They “hang out” and if they like one another...they have sex...and maybe down the road decide to be boyfriend/girlfriend.
They have it pretty backwards...
It’s like we’ve gone from somewhat loosened sexual behavior in the mid 70s of my youth to just short of Caligula’s barge pretty damned fast.
and the consequences are illegitimacy and even more lack of respect for marrying.
My wife and I married like you guys did too. First date...a blind one...we knew in hours we would be marrying and having children...and quickly.
October first date/May marriage ...11 months later..first boy...and so forth..going on 18 years later
I pity folks who have never had as such.
God bless
my practical advice to women is to not sleep with just anyone obviously and to not play house if you must until wedding date and ring on finger
we did not sell my wife’s condo till we were married
“To get men with jobs interested in getting married again the IRS should allow husbands to depreciate their wife’s beauty over 20 years.”
Well, that kind of solves the problem since you will be dead and not have to worry about taxes anymore after telling your wife you are taking a deduction based on her declining beauty..
Of course the men are virgins and don't have STDs.
That is an interesting new angle from the left, to suddenly pretend that male sexuality and virginity and female sexuality and virginity have been exactly the same in America.
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