Posted on 07/24/2018 11:14:28 AM PDT by servo1969
Advice for dealing with lunatics, or cobras.
A guy named "Donald" comes to mind ...
Your hubby obviously knows this list, chapter and verse ;-)
I kind of feel sad for people who spout the old worn out mantra that beauty fades. If you love someone, you’ll always see the initial beauty you saw in them. Whether it’s in their eyes, the way they smile, the way they carry themselves, or even the look in their eyes that you send back, you’ll still see the original beauty.
If you don’t, I’m not convinced you were ever fully enchanted by them. And if not, why did you ever sign on?
This isn’t to say they can’t destroy that connection, if they go off the deep end. If they remain a true loyal devoted partner with you, it just doesn’t have to end.
Relationships are more than just two people. They are places, certain times, and all the wonderful things you have shared together. No one else will know those moments better than you two. If something should happen to break you up, you’ve just erased all the pleasant memories from decades of your life.
All those places where you used to go and share laughs, kisses, and special looks, will become no more than a familiar place missing the true spark that made it what it used to be. They will become haunted...
If there are children involved, you are stealing from them. They will never be able to fully appreciate the beauty of the moments before the split. Nice work.
If you love someone, go all in. Don’t hold back. determine that you will never let that person go. Work to keep them. Be willing to go that extra mile. Be willing to fight for them if they start to fail or stray. Convince them of how much they mean to you. Nothing says I don’t give a darn about you, as well as the idea you don’t care if they go or not.
Look folks, not every relationship is going to turn into the wonderful future you thought it would be. There can be major setbacks, and a hard life for the two of you. That in and of itself can actually be a shared experience that endears you to each other.
If you have troubles, think of the hardship, and the beauty if the two of you can get through it, learn from it, and grow even closer together.
Life is what you make of it. You will decide to be happy, positive, and a contributing partner that brings new life to the relationship, or you will decide to be unhappy, negative, and suck the life blood out of everything you touch.
In life, it’s more up to you than you think.
If two people love each other and decide to be happy, they will always be happy.
Can all relationships be saved? No. There are times when you’ll have to say good-bye.
Don’t let it be you, that causes this rift in the universe.
Also, they will never ever leave you alone. Something snaps in their weird chick lizard brain if they see you “doing nothing”.
They have the arrogance to ask what you want to do... never thinking for a moment that this is precisely what you already ARE doing.
Many women can go from Sweetie to pure Bitch in about or less than 0.65 seconds.
Careful, I am out of estrogen and I have a gun.
I know several women who were considered very plain looking when we were real young and as they aged they became more beautiful (in looks) every year. Now in their 50s they are all still getting better looking while the girls who were pretty when they were younger now mostly look like a sack of potatoes.
Corollary to the 5 truths.
1. It’s important to find a woman that helps out around the house from time to time and who has a job.
2. It’s important to find a woman who can make you laugh.
3. It’s important to find a woman that you can trust and who won’t lie to you.
4. It’s important to find a woman who loves to spend time with you, to include the bedroom.
5. It’s very, very, important that these four women never meet or know of each other or you could end up very, very dead.
“A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek.” — Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
We have to, because sheep can't cook.
Short and sweet version told to me by a man. He believed every woman was at least a little crazy.
My advice. Don’t argue with them when they go off the deep end, which is often. Just listen and move on or try to get away from them until they come back to normal.
Lime cral is some nasty stuff.
My mother was always nuts. She was still nuts, but less so, both during and after, menopause. Her mother was an abusive crazy woman before menopause. I only knew her afterwards, but she was always pretty good natured. Neither of them were prepared or suited for the huge responsibility and stress of raising a family. Once the kids were grown, their stress levels decreased markedly. I like to think I’m at least a little less crazy than either one of them, but I never really had any menopausal symptoms. A lot of women feel better once their hormones start decreasing. But some women have terrible symptoms as their hormones decrease. Just depends on the woman. If we have too much estrogen, when it starts to wane, we feel better. I’ve never had to take estrogen replacement therapy. When I stopped ovulating, my lifelong depression decreased.
I’m with you. Under 30 and I can’t deal.
I just lived these observations in a divorce two years ago. No warning. She’s decided she wants to relive high school (she’s a high school math teacher). The kids have moved on from her. Totally different woman than the one I met.
You wouldn’t believe the tactics in the end game. Unbelievable, and with no thought to the kids at all.
I would settle for someone with a sense of humor who doesn’t take themselves too seriously, and Christian. Hate having to explain that or make allowances for that.
Change the word "seconds" to "micro seconds" and you have my wife.
They have cooties
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