Posted on 01/20/2008 9:42:43 PM PST by Bear_Slayer
I don’t understand either.
Oddly, some folks never give any positive indication that they do.
How the heck is the spouse supposed to figure that (s)he is loved, if all (s)he ever hears is negative blather?
I pity your poor wife/girlfriend.
That you had to post this to a public forum instead of having a private chat with the person you intend to build a “lasting relationship” is telling.
To Women:
If you find a guy like this - RUN!
LOL. Or Micheal Kinsley...
One of the reasons I ‘turned conservative’ is the romantic notion that conservative men really loved their women and were faithful to them. While liberal men were ‘all about me and my needs’ and quicker to screw around and lie to their wives.
Great thread! Some very well expressed and poignant posts...and funny ones (the List from 1950 is a hoot!) There maybe political issues we can resolve, but I bet this same thread would be as timely in 20 years as it is today...human nature doesn’t really ever change. PaMom
And just remember, conservative men usually have jobs too and get off the couch, except in Sundays in fall of course.
I only explaniation I can think of is that it is generational.
LOL!
Allow me my weekends in off with girlfriends and my 2 weeks in Egypt in June/July.
CIB-173RDABN summed it up nicely in his post. That’s what it SHOULD be.
Your complaint on an earlier post; “leave my stuff alone,” is not exclusive as men messing with women’s things (in general). You’ll find many men here saying the exact same thing.
Perhaps the guy who threw away your CD was just a jerk and a control freak. A lot of guys have had women do the exact same thing to them. They’ll likely tell you “she was a ‘jerk’ and a control freak.”
Find a guy who respects you. While your at it, find a guy you respect and treat him with respect. Doing this would solve a lot of relationship problems.
Marry her, and come and talk to us in 8 years.
IF you keep up pampering her; she will be able to keep pampering you. If you get to think, "She just loves doing this, so I can stop," she's gonna' get tired of it.
I recommend that both of you read, His Needs; Her Needs. It would make a great marriage contract for the kind of woman she currently seems to be.
No matter how wonderful she seems to be now....
And yet a lot of women are praising him for posting it. Go figure!
You're dating girls...not women.
We had some new friends we had started to hang out with. He was ex-LAPD, she was the classic abused wife. He would say such hateful things to her in front of us.
One day I told him if he couldn't be kind to the mother of his children in our presence, he was no longer welcomed in our home. (I swear that is what I said).
We are no longer friends with this couple.
Political philosophy and religious preference may be a good predictor of personal character, but is not a guarantee.
Color me “stumped”.
You forgot "Respect yourself and don't settle for being treated with disrespect."
If the woman in your example respected him and respected herself she would never tolerate the life she's living.
I tell my wife of 25 years, "I love you", each night before sleep. I do it because if I die in my sleep, that's the last words out of my mouth I want her to hear and remember.
I give her a kiss each time before I leave the house because, if I die while gone, that's the last thing I want her to remember me doing. Even if she's still sleeping when I get up and go to work, I kiss her in her sleep. She knows I did.
Absolutely...you are correct. There is a postscript to this story. The husband had an affair with another woman in our circle of friends. It was scandalous. They both left their spouses, but after one day, the woman came to her senses and went back to her husband...having no place to go, the ex-lapder went back to his wife who TOOK HIM BACK! Can you imagine? Any respect or empathy I had for the wife was gone...I figured they deserved each other but I did not want any of them in my life. So it goes...
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