Posted on 10/13/2005 7:02:45 AM PDT by Eurotwit
You are reading too much into this. And if you are eating chestnuts, you are eating worms according to my father-in-law.
No, they'll just make men financially liable if the woman can prove a sufficiently serious relationship took place.
Fifty years from now you'll wind up supporting a woman for life if you've ever shared a cab.
This author should use the pseudonym "Mary Long".
In Psalms it reads "It is better to live on the corner of a roof than in the house of a contentious woman."
Who says God doesn't understand us?
Well, if your analysis begins and ends with 'having your act together' you are probably right. I didn't mean to suggest that was the only criteria, though. There are lots of other factors that goes into finding a compatible mate - I didn't mean to suggest there were none.
I think a lot of men are just fearful of relationships with women. Fearfulness isn't sexy. It won't make a woman feel secure with a man. In time, women in that dynamic will fall under the gravitational pull of a man who isn't fearful.
That man will then often gleefully have sex with other men's wives & girlfriends. while I'm no fan of adultery, can you blame a woman for recognizing she wants strength in a companion, and then recognizing the man she has been with for years is weak?
In good consience, I can't.
I find that the best & brightest are the ones who handle these challenges the worst. It must be a side-effect of being the 'best & brightest.' :-)
But you don't know the half of it. When your guy friends in their 40's finally decide to settle down, it won't be with you, it'll be with a younger woman. Hope you enjoyed your party decades. Have a great career, because that's all you're gonna have.
Huh? Well then forget it!
I believe it is time for us to stop tailoring our thinking to what a female thinks or feels. I believe the dialogue needs to be put on hold with females. We men need a dialogue amongst ourselves about what we want the future to look like and then go back and take control, and create the conditions for that future.
You cannot do any of those things when you are conversing with a female, testing her beliefs, trying to find coherence in her thoughts, or to trying to understand what she wants. You will simply confound the entire process.
DA740
/satire.
;^)
It's been working for me for a long time, son.
I think you're off base here.
Men, look your women in the eye and tell them that you love them, will do anything for them, and are happy to be with her.
Then remind her that you are not, nor ever will be, afraid of her.
Her admiration for you will grow.
LOL - stuned, perhaps, when they find someone who isn't impressed by their "superiority."
I don't mean to imply that a man shouldn't talk to his wife. But the topics of those discussions should not be open-ended in my opinion. There are certain topics a man should discuss with a woman, and certain topics he should not. In my view, that applies to discussions with a wife, too.
Males and females are, and will always be, fundamentally different. They are not, and have never been, "equal."
DA740
The usual presumption was that he was a homosexual.
Society, in general, has taken ALL the pressures off young men to grow up. I take that back. Society has actually made it a negative for a man to settle down.
Preach it! I'd add that there are many women out there who don't grow up, too. They're permanent stuck in adolescence because their parents spoiled them rotten rather than put up with their 13-yo temper tantrums. The Peter Pan syndrome applies to both sexes.
>>Gee can I still be a candidate for a FReeper match even if its too late for the chillin's?<<
I would say yes but for a wedding toast you have to slap a liberal at the reception. (and kick them out before dinner)
I'm on board with that.
Britain is wholely incomprehensible.
There always on about something, but I can't suss out bugger all.
(Maybe "twig in beak" refers to wanting to build a nest as a metaphor for settling down?)
SD
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