Posted on 08/08/2020 10:07:48 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
My grandfather and my Dad used to call stuff a ‘real beauty’ and it was never a compliment.(They were not related!)
Or the matador
I’m so screwed in the “Finding a Woman to Spend the Rest of My Life With Department”...because what I’m looking for in a woman has become ever-increasingly rare.
Near impossible to find these days I would venture- Even i n the Christian realm- Seen many people who claimed to be Christians just up and walk away from their marriages- some even turning gay and walking away- Who wants to invest years of their life, and have someone do that to them?
Marriage has always been a gamble of course- but in this day and age- it’s a serious problem with many many more people calling it quits, and ruining the other person financially, and ruining their reputations in the process as well- Years ago- people were much more apt to try to work it out- even if it meant going to counselors to do so- but nope- not today- one person gets bored- and off they go- people are just a lot more selfish these days than they used to be by and large-
I’ve observed this phenomenon I’ll dub “sister-whispering”, where friends, relatives, co-workers, etc. of the woman can have huge undue outside influences on a relationship. The momentum in this direction is so great and gravity of the situation is such that the more “friends” she has, the more potential there is for a failed relationship with a man who would otherwise be good enough for any woman.
[[I’ve observed this phenomenon I’ll dub “sister-whispering”]]
Exactly- Excellent terminology for this issue- many families are directly responsible for breaking up the marriages of their siblings, or daughters or sons- They work and work and work on the married person, their relative, until that person becomes actually angry with their spouse-
The brothers and sisters and parents that do this are control freaks- - Because the spouse of their relative doesn’t measure up to THEIR standards, then they go to work destroying the marriage- even going so far as bearing false witness against the spouse in order to destroy the marriage by turning their relative against their spouse—
Sadly too many families but in where they should be doing so-
Of course- sometimes families should probably at least talk to their relative WITHOUT trying to manipulate the situation like using false accusations, or inflating grievances etc-, when their relative won’t admit there is a serious problem going on with the spouse- such as ongoing abuse, or illegal activities- serious ones- it certainly doesn’t hurt to try to maKE them aware, or get them to finally admit the obvious when there is a serious problem, when there actually is one- for their own safety— but far too many families are broken up by nosy family members over very minor and trivial things
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