Posted on 08/11/2014 2:01:36 AM PDT by markomalley
Msgr Pope ping
This entire article is full of truths. But there are good women out there. If you spend 2 years on someone and they reject you, it’s them. If they truly love you, then there is no exception they would make for you. It shouldn’t leave you a broken shell, it should leave you happy that you got rid of someone who would make you miserable, and there is time still left for you to find the right one. She’s out there, I am sure of that.
Bm
Even worse I find that young men detest the young women who are so loose and who have no natural grace or shame. Everything about young men says to women give me your body but keep away from me in any other aspect of life. The lack of respect that is earned from being easy lets men treat women like hoes and bitches rather than precious gifts from God and women see men as providers of their shopping desires and lifestyles. Men must have great bodies and big wallets or they are tossed to one side. There seems to be no requirement to be a decent person - one you can respect and admire!
I just finished up with English class for the summer. A young girl was in my class. I would say less than 21 years old. I didn’t really talk to her a whole lot for the semester, but we started talking more the last few classes. From our few conversations, I found out she is a young, single mom who lives with her mom. Her daughter is a baby. A boyfriend unceremoniously just left her to go back with his ex. Baby’s daddy is a “whole different story.” She told me she’s never going to get married...she wants to be a cat lady. I knew what she was saying was from a broken heart. Even everyday, average modern girls still desire and crave romance and to be treated right.
Anyway, she said she wanted to stay in touch with me. Her little sister is the same age as my daughter and she talked about getting together sometime. So I read this article, then went to Facebook. I looked her up and “friended” her just now. I found this on her Facebook page, posted at the end of July:
“Maybe a cute relationship where we post cute pictures, stay up all night talking on the phone, tell each other our biggest fears, our dreams and our future together.....maybe someday.....”
It really can be a sad, lonely place out there.
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It goes back even further to the Mary Tyler Moore Show. I always thought that my sister believed that a handsome new guy would show up every week with a bouquet of roses for her.
Then, decades later, I heard MTM herself say that the reason for her break-up with Grant Tinker was that she compared her "boring" home life with the exciting life of her character on the show.
Despite MTM’s character of Mary Richards having girl-next-door good looks and being single, I always found her character rather boring and asexual. Considering her status, she didn’t date that much and seemed kind of disinterested in the opposite sex at times. She wasn’t confident and was rather quirky. I enjoyed the character and show, but the character was an odd one to me. Now Rhoda on the other hand, was very fun and real. I would have been friends with Mary Richards, too, but Rhoda always seemed like she would have been a good, loyal bud and been someone to have good laugh with.
After two very frustrating and unsatisfying marriages, at 60 years old I finally met and was privileged to win the heart of an extraordinary perfect angel of a woman who turned out to be my absolute soul-mate and the love of my life. She died of breast cancer two and a half years later.
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I’m so happy you got to meet her Maceman, but so sad for you regarding the short time you had to spend with her.
Did you see this story from last summer about former front man of Journey, Steve Perry? As with your story, I was very touched by it:
Steve Perry reveals the love of his lifetime, his battle with cancer and explains his run-in with Martha Quinn
http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/80s/steve-perry-reveals-the-love-of-his-lifetime-and-explains-his-run-in-with/2125435
I don’t understand the connotation(s) of “innocence” if something other than “innocence” can be perceived as guilt unless you’re talking about criminal sexual conduct, rape, etc. or child molestation, etc., especially the latter.
“...Anger, resentment, self-promotion, immodesty, cruelty, callousness, perversion...”
This is all one sees on US TV, movies, commercials, US entertainment of music videos and game shows...I just finished watching a South Korean show - Roommates - it’s amazing how complete strangers in the Pop Entertainment culture over there treat one another and their fans...completely opposite of the US side...
When 1 series promotes Christian values and family (Duck Dynasty) - Hollywood goes through the roof! Just 1, not many...
Kinda like the Israeli conflict — the Middle East is owned by Moslems - but that little piece of land is causing so much turmoil...as if the Jews are responsible for this...confusing isn’t it?
When and IF my daughter dates before 18 but definitely after 16 - the boy will meet me - and there will be guidance - and if he doesn’t like it - then to hell with him and his pathetic parents for not raising him honorably!
Before he left for his summer camp job, my 17-year-old son was undergoing an interview process with the parents of a girl he would like to take out for a coffee. He’d made it through a dinner with her parents. However, he hasn’t mentioned her since he got back, so maybe she met someone else who wasn’t away all summer.
If he gets a haircut, I’ll know it’s because this potential relationship is back on!
haircut....yes,,,
I had a young teen (14-15yrs old) babysitter - family member through my wife - come over and watch my kids -especially my 3 yr old son at the time...so her friends would come over at times with her and they spent the day with the kids...I would sit and talk to them every once in awhile at the kitchen table about school and possible dates, the reply back was astounding...boys could not and did not know how to approach them to ask for dates to the school dances, did not know how to just sit and talk to the girls in class, did nothing in the way one would expect in pre-courting...so the girls (as I was told) either hooked up with each other or were engaging older men (which is right down scary) looking for a relationship...they also explained that the few boys 0 like under ten - that did have manners, could talk, and treat a girl with respect - HAD a girlfriend...this society of our will fall apart if this continues...oh, they also said that if they went over to a boys house as a group (boys & girls) the boys sat around and played video games - never acknowledging the girls at all...I was like...WOW!~
The whole concept of dating gets absolutely no help from explicit sex ed classes.
I was talking to a woman who is raising her grandson. Her daughter another irresponsible 30 something did not marry the father. I am not even sure she ever knew who the father was. She was raised in a christian home and her parents are still married to each other.
Any how, they sued for custody and brought the boy to their home in another state. He was maybe 7 or 8 at the time. The woman said they had to teach the boy how to be a boy. He was unable to relate to his grandfather. He was always around women.
Boys were never good at talking to girls they like. That was part of the charm of it. The blushing and babbling was endearing. I feel sorry for the young people. Some of the crap that sends me into orbit about them, is really not their fault.
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