[rlmorel]

I found that very discouraging.

I used to swear a lot in my younger days (Never around my parents or even strangers if I could avoid it) but as I got older, I realized it was an indicator of weakness, so I try to avoid excessive swearing, and most especially, the taking of God’s name in vain, something I did mindlessly as a younger man.

Especially when I was working on cars. My nephew (now a fully grown man in his forties) told his father that everything he knew about swearing he learned from watching me work on my cars. I know that to be no doubt true, because I had a completely full alternate vocabulary, but it does embarrass me now.

It has been a lifelong battle to rid myself of it and I have been largely successful, though as anyone who has seen me bash my shin on a trailer hitch, not wholly successful.

[Jamestown1630]

Tell me about it - my husband burned himself getting something into the oven tonight :-)

My Grandmother’s husband married her after many years as a single military man. He admitted that he had to really work to clean up his language when he came out of the service and worked in the government as a civilian. (And that was over a hundred years ago!)

[NEMDF]

Thanks for sharing your experience. Though, I must admit, it all makes me fairly sad. Strange man could have been one of my brothers, and it seems all of my 6 siblings are veering toward extreme liberalism, to the point of wanting to pick fights with me, insult my veteran husband, etc. to show how they think they are so virtuous. It has been a struggle for me the past few weeks, in part because it seems like they are permanently dug in to their viewpoints, and I do not plan to change mine.