Posted on 01/10/2006 1:49:22 AM PST by nickcarraway
Thank you
It wasn't until this last year that I realize just how much of a necessity sending cards is. Not so much to the sender, but to the receiver. The occasional cards helped me through a very rough time. So, seeing how valuable they are to me, I've taken up the slack and sent the Christmas, birthday and anniversary cards out.
(Attendance at the funeral parlor is also very important. I know it can be a drag but having your support at the showing is so vital to the people who are bereaved. I encourage everyone to visit at the funeral home if someone you know has lost someone they love.)
Your attitude is why the family infrastructure is falling apart in this country. Suck it up and be responsible for your choices.
Not my nieces that are in their 20s. The older one is a nice Catholic girl who doesn't even drink.
Objectivity is always filtered through one's ego. And with the sharp elbows being thrown on these type of threads, some egos get bruised. Others were bruised (and have not yet healed) prior to their joining the discussion.
I think that it's best just to let the fellas vent once in a while without taking umbrage or calling in the coven. After all, we have so few venues where it's allowable to get something off our chest.
Expressing and letting go of some toxic memories is a good way to put them behind oneself.
And just to satisfy my curiosity, why does it offend you that some men look offshore for a spouse?
I think I'll stay single and not have to worry about all of that.
Besides, I did most of that crap anyway when I wasn't single.
It's a political forum, not a private men's club to bitch about women. I'll continue to calls them as I sees them, best I can and I bet occasionally I'll be wrong too. :~D
I said about as much about the foreign bride thing on this thread as I care to. My reasons are upthread somewhere.
Actually, I know an extremely gorgeous, 26-year-old model who is setting out to do just that. She has looked around and noticed that second wives usually have it a lot better than first wives. She's seen a lot of young guys unhappily married to their first wives because they're still immature and/or busy establishing themselves in their careers. After getting divorced from their first wives, the guys grow up a little and marry second young wives and start second families. By this time, the guy is more established in his career, more prosperous, more grown up, a better father, and appreciative of having a young, pretty wife. The second wife benefits from all of this and gets to stay at home with the kids or whatever she wants to do. Meanwhile, the first wife struggles as a single mom, working at a job and raising the kids from the first marriage all by herself. This model has seen all that and has decided she wants to be a second wife! She's probably not the only one, either. It's like that movie, "First Wives Club." The first wife gets dumped, the second wife has it better. Not every time, of course, but often.
Is she a Christian and where in the US is she? (You can't blame a guy for just asking :^) )
"She has looked around and noticed that second wives usually have it a lot better than first wives."
When Joan Rivers was still doing standup, she used to ask to look at the rings of the women in the front rows. She would diagnose from the size of the stone whether the woman was a First Wife or Second (or more) Wife, and I don't think she was ever wrong. ;-D
As a fellow livestock owner, you must be aware of the necessity to occasionally bring in new genes to invigorate a stagnant herd.
I have great admiration for the entrepreneurial and self reliant spirit that new immigrants bring to this country. Far too many Americans of all races, social classes and political orientations have become fat, lazy and absorbed in the entitlement mentality.
New blood may not correct all of our ills, but it will bring a positive outlook to individual family units simply due to the appreciation felt for opportunities afforded to those who live in this country which are unavailable elsewhere.
Sometimes it requires a pair of foreign eyes to help us see how good we all have it.
Freebirds' 2¢
Heh... yeah - OK. I've still said about as much about the foreign bride thing on this thread as I care to.
Goodness John.... who cares where she is. Moving's easy.
See you on the next one then.
: )
Losers is a poor choice of words and shows your bias.
The world shrinks because of technology the options for the American man have increased. How many times does need to hear about a friend or coworker who had his children and house taken away from him by the woman he thought was his best friend. How many guys does he know who are slapped with bogus protective orders?
If a man wants to have a stable family with a woman who will take care of him and value the family more than the dollar, then looking in a place where he can find such a woman only makes sense. I simply don't date unless I intend to use a woman for sex. American women, in general, aren't worth the time and effort to build a relationship with. Even spending $50.00 on dinner and drinks on an American woman is a waste of money.
As the father of three little boys who's mother took them from their home and moved them into their mother's boyfriend's apartment I speak from experience.
Little more difficult than that. My daughter lost her mommy. Her entire support network is here, Mamaw and Papaw (that's hoosier speak for grandparents) aunt and uncle and cousins, all her friends, church family etc. As well as mommy's skin and bones (which mommy's really not using anymore so we buried it). I can't rip that all away from her too so anyone interested will have to move here.
"I simply don't date unless I intend to use a woman for sex. American women, in general, aren't worth the time and effort to build a relationship with. Even spending $50.00 on dinner and drinks on an American woman is a waste of money."
Between your attitude and your somewhat outmoded theory that $50 can cover dinner and drinks for two, I'm guessin' you haven't been out for a good long time. There's probably a calculation factor in there as well based on how many tattoos both you and the female in question possess, as well as how many teeth (between you). ;-D
John, I sympathise, I really do. But you are giving a much too serious answer to a post that was supposed to be rather light. With two horses, a couple dogs and a lot of associated frap, it wouldn't have been easy for me to move either when I met my husband online and 1500 miles away. But we met anyway.... Turns out, he could move.
Point is, moving's easy. :~D
Don't worry. That was just an attempt to inject some humor into a thread that had gotten far too contentious, before I went to bed. I always do two things before turning out the light: read the Bible, and laugh about something. I got stuck reading this thread and tried to give myself a giggle before bed.
If I wore boxers, I might even iron them once, just to see what it's like. Ironing breifs might be pointless, but I might give it a try.
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