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To: L.N. Smithee
His wife is the one that got him off his butt and back on his bike after cancer; my comment is comes form many articles and interviews from the past threee years.

What this shows is how easy it is for people to give up even when they have overcome adversity. The marriage vows are not taken seriously by too many people. If two people can tough out cancer they can change their actions to be of help to a mate. Saving a marriage is about not making the choice to quit, unless there is abuse.

I want to be happy is the problem not the solution. You are happy because you become mature in accepting life's changes. Too bad this is not a happy ending.

17 posted on 09/04/2003 5:25:39 AM PDT by q_an_a
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To: q_an_a
My wife and I went through three years of counseling, and today are happier than we have ever been. It takes guts to hold on, and both sides have to want to work at it. But...

. "We're truly committed to maintaining a good relationship, but not a marriage."

...this is the bigest load of cow pie I have ever heard. This idiot should be clubbed to death with a baby seal.

18 posted on 09/04/2003 5:31:30 AM PDT by 50sDad ("There are FOUR LIGHTS! FOUR LIGHTS!")
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To: q_an_a
My wife and I went through three years of counseling, and today are happier than we have ever been. It takes guts to hold on, and both sides have to want to work at it. But...

. "We're truly committed to maintaining a good relationship, but not a marriage."

...this is the bigest load of cow pie I have ever heard. This idiot should be clubbed to death with a baby seal.

19 posted on 09/04/2003 5:31:30 AM PDT by 50sDad ("There are FOUR LIGHTS! FOUR LIGHTS!")
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To: q_an_a
The marriage vows are not taken seriously by too many people.

Indeed. If they were, we wouldn't be talking about gay marriage now.

People suggest that allowing people of the same sex to marry would destroy the institution. I say, gay marriage would only be the final stage of destruction of the institution that began with the concept of no-fault divorce.

To wit: Once marriage was easier to legally escape than a health-club membership, the differences between marriage and shacking up began to evaporate. Now that people with normal sexual inclinations can shack up and get almost all the benefits of marriage, gays can say, "Hey, we shack up too!"

20 posted on 09/04/2003 5:36:48 AM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Just because I don't think like you doesn't mean I don't think for myself)
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To: q_an_a
What this shows is how easy it is for people to give up even when they have overcome adversity.

I think there is an old song (by Merle Haggard?) with the basic sentiment of
"someday, when things are good, I'm going to leave you".
29 posted on 09/04/2003 6:45:08 AM PDT by VOA
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To: q_an_a
"His wife is the one that got him off his butt and back on his bike after cancer..."

That's because everytime he went home, she was there to bitch and moan about the house not being clean, the beds don't make themselves, the laundry is piling up... and LOOK at this living room! The DUST on the TV could gag a maggot!!!...

Yeah, I'd have gone back to training too!

59 posted on 09/04/2003 11:24:52 AM PDT by Hatteras (All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand...)
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