Posted on 02/07/2005 6:36:10 PM PST by mason-dixon
Sorry, you have extremely bad taste in music. I can't live with that for a sound-track, no matter how wonderful you might be otherwise.
Got any AC-DC? Then we'll talk... ;~)
You're right "We're not worthy. We're not worthy."
Helen Reddy indeed.
TS
Umm, why do you assume that the vast majority don't?
Aye. However, you may need to further define the terms of the debate. What, with a measure of detail, do you mean by strong and independent? I have known women who use those words whilst trying to emasculate a man. I have also known others who were independent but not in a way that left a man feeling as useful as a mouldy sponge. My idea of a strong woman is as follows: Maggie Thatcher is strong, whereas Gloria Steinem is a useful idiot.
Um, I'm a woman...and I'm not sure I'd like you as a mother-in-law! ;-)
I agree, one of my tennis partners in mixed was the former world's arm wrestling champion, and even she couldn't put an overhead away! :-)
It will be interesting to see how many you find on this thread. LOL
My bad.... It will live in infamy.... not spelling President Reagan's name properly.
My fault, which I must live with, no taste in music.
Ask around and you will find out a lot of us troglodites have strong independant self supporting women.
And then there are the guys that are still sulking because some girls made fun of him in junior highschool.
They are usually busy shopping for a mailorder bride.
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Check it out.
I hope to God my boys don't marry your daughters. I'd have to have you as an in-law and I don't think you'd be pleasant company up on the lake....
As a gladly submissive wife to an imperfect man...and I can count my ancestry back to the Revolutionary War so I am certainly not from a third-world country...I will quote a military saying: A man can make Colonel, but it takes a woman to make a General. God often puts the smarter, more able person in the helpmate role in the marriage. If she wants a truly fulfilling life, she will learn to use her position of influence in his life to enable her husband to be successful. It would behoove you to study the wives of the great men you cite in your post. I am sure you will find women who deeply respected their husbands and their leadership role in the marriage, and knew how to use their influence wisely.
After 25 years of being married to my best friend, marriage is not a partnership of equals. That is a business partnership, and you damned well better bring an ironclad contract with you.
Marriage is only the accomplishment of a union where the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts.
If, and only if, that union produces children that live to marrying age, the single worst thing you can do is called "vicarious projection" - which is what you have done in your post. They are not robots or clones, and they see your completed and finely detailed masterpiece as merely a rough pencil sketch of their future. Let them begin to fill in the colors and patterns. You may not like their art, but it is their masterpiece to struggle with as life goes on.
I have compensated for my poor taste in music by marrying a professional singer. Trust me, she's plenty independent, strong and capable.
Regards,
TS
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