It’s time to teach these young girls how it works. They need to value themselves and play hard to get. Men treasure a woman if they’ve had to work hard to win her heart. I know what I’m talking about. Thirty-five years ago I had a date for New Year’s with an old friend. The man who later became my husband asked me out and I told him I already had plans. As I walked in the door after midnight he was calling. Our first date, December 4, 1977, Proposal, January 7, 1978, Wedding, May 6, 1978. Until he passed away last year from a sudden illness we had a wonderful marriage which lasted just shy of thirty-four years. I’m still married to him and will be until we meet again!
We were married in 1962.
We did not live together before we married.
wonderful story. I’m sorry for your loss, but you had 35 wonderful years together and i’m sure he’s waiting for you in heaven
Great story and you will meet again.
What a love story. How wonderful. I am sorry for the loss of your husband but isn’t it something that you had 35 years which is way more than most because of divorce. I am so glad that you picked the right guy and had a wonderful life.
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