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To: hopespringseternal

Why is it that going into marriage everyone in the world is trying to wave you off, warn you, kidnap you to an island, but every man is inevitably surprised when marriage turns out to be exactly what everyone told him it was going to be and she is just as much the witch as everyone said she would be?

I cannot say she was a witch.

I can say we both had deep, fundamental problems.

I know I am working on mine and I hope she is working on hers.

I've learned quite a lot from my experience. Besides the fact it gave me the impetus to finally get off of cocaine, which in itself is an amazing gift and wonderful miracle, it also taught me that I want a woman who is G-d fearing. It also taught me never to move into another womans house or apartment -- we get a place together, or forget it. It also taught me that I need to give more, to be more thoughtful of my mates needs and wants. In fact, I have a list of 10 points that it taught me in my Journal, of which only three are listed.

Tough times make for growth. My last year has been as tough as it can be. I have grown commensurately.

39 posted on 01/06/2004 9:34:48 AM PST by Lazamataz (G-d gave us free will. The government took it away.)

Kudos to you.

"Tough times make for growth. "

Not necessarily. They make for growth only if you choose it to be so. It's easier just to stay the same and expect the rest of the world to change. Glad you chose to take the more difficult path.

54 posted on 01/06/2004 9:59:32 AM PST by webstersII

Besides the fact it gave me the impetus to finally get off of cocaine, which in itself is an amazing gift and wonderful miracle, it also taught me that I want a woman who is G-d fearing.

The former is the one thing you've said that's actually shocked me.

The latter...well, I met my wife at a prayer meeting. We are of the same faith. That is critically important for staying together--the time we spend together in worshipping G-d is what gives us strength for the journey.

55 posted on 01/06/2004 10:01:29 AM PST by Poohbah ("Beware the fury of a patient man" -- John Dryden)

I can say we both had deep, fundamental problems.

Do you have a mouse in your pocket?

68 posted on 01/06/2004 10:20:06 AM PST by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)

CONGRATULATIONS.

AN AWESOME SET OF ACHIEVEMENTS.

CHEERS!

GOD'S BEST TO EACH MEMBER IN YOUR FAMILY.

88 posted on 01/06/2004 10:44:30 AM PST by Quix (Particularly quite true conspiracies are rarely proven until it's too late to do anything about them)

"It is better to live in a corner of the roof
Than in a house shared with a contentious woman."

Proverbs 25:24 (NASB)

165 posted on 01/06/2004 12:43:33 PM PST by Tall_Texan (Happy 2004 - the year we put Republicanism into overdrive.)

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