not to bring something heavy to this thread which is supposed to be a fun one, but it was one of the problems i had with people ragging on Harriet Miers for never having married. it doesn't always present itself as an option to everyone, just through happenstance or God's plan or whatever. my feeling is, there but for the grace of God (and xshub) go i....
XSMommy...I say Amen to your post #287...picking on a woman because she is not married, is just plain stupid...some folks would have her get married, even if she was not in love...now thats one sure fire way to wind up getting divorced...then they could crab because she was divorced..some folks are never, ever happy, unless they are harping and whining about something...
About husbands staying out all nite...when my hubby was in the army, especially if they had been out in the field, it would sometimes happen that maybe a weapon would be missing, or something really bad had happened...guess what...they would just lock up all the soldiers, and let them sweat it out until the higher ups could figure out what was going on...eventually we wives would get a phone call from some military official or another, explaining the situation, ,and asked if we would come down to base, and bring our hubbies some clean clothes, at least some clean undies...
But most times, those phone calls never came until we wives had realized out hubbies had been gone all nite...one time my hubby was 'out all nite', for three days and three nites...it was just something you got used to in the military...
My husband always told me, dont worry, if I am gone, or worse, dead, the army will call you and tell you where I am and what happened...
I have a saying,
We're all trains,
Some just engines, some are cabooses,
some with lots of cars and then
some of us are wrecked ;)
Not everyone is able to live the same life as someone else. One person's heaven could be another's hell.
So ain't it grand we live in a country were we can pretty much pursue happiness as long as it doesn't take away from someone elses :)