"Stifle it..."
Posted on 08/10/2011 12:59:00 PM PDT by Kaslin
Yes folks, I think that marriage is pretty important. That however, is really just an opinion. I came to said opinion this weekend, when my good-hearted (albeit hairy) brother said “I do.”
Sure, I’d attended weddings before, but this was the first time that I’d witnessed two young adults truly do it properly.
They weren’t shacking up, and my brother "wasn’t milking any cows" (to quote my grandmother).
As my brother’s luminescent face transitioned to a cousin Eddie-like expression of anticipation, every single one of us in attendance understood that we were witnessing something special, something meaningful.
In my opinion, that’s a beautiful thing.
What’s not a matter of opinion, however, is that when it comes to marriage, we’ve all been lied to. Far from the miserable, broke, sexless life that it’s made out to be, the life of today’s married man is more fulfilling than any lonely, self-pleasing, single guy could hope for. So to all of you cads and good-time gals out there, read on and take note.
Myth Number One: Over Half of Today's Marriages Fail!
Social leftists love to perpetuate this lie (about marriages failing) and for one simple reason; if you can devalue the practice of marriage by deeming it nothing more than a hopeless crapshoot of an endeavor, you can, then, open the floodgates to manipulating both its standards and importance in society.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
ping for later.
Worse, in a comment about how divorce is increasingly rare, hovering over the word brings up a bubble advertising divorce lawyers.
Lovely article! I knew I liked being married......it’s a beautiful thing. :)
If you click on the comments in question, there is documentation of the sources.
My wife and I have been married nearly 20 years, and we don’t know a single couple our age that has been divorsed.
Marriage is a beautiful thing, especially when one is blessed to be married to the love of one's life. I am so blessed and thank God daily for having a hand in bringing my sweetheart and me together!
Sadly, what neither side gets is the institution of marriage is not the problem: it’s the atitude, philosophy, and comportment of those engaging in it.
You really don’t understand what being married is when you’ve deceived yourself into believing “are you mad at me” is a fair question, when your spouse knows from experience what you really mean is “do I need to raise my defenses from whatever is bothering you?”
Yep, it is! We’re going on 36 years, and it gets better every day! It really makes a big difference to the longevity of a marriage when both folks have made the decision that there is no getting out, and the attitude is you might as well make it great, because you’re in it to stay!
We have managed to (with a lot of help from the Lord) "make it great".....and it's getting greater every day for us too.
35 years this month. We'll see if we can make 35 more, and go to be with Jesus at the exact same time (from the home, to HOME. :)
That's the plan.
"Stifle it..."
Wife: “Honey, do this dress make my butt look fat?”
Husband: “Dear, it isn’t the dress that makes you look fat. It’s the fat that makes you look fat.”
She was 20, I was 23.
At first she didn’t want anything to do with me, but she was so beautiful that I couldn’t just walk away.
Gradually, we became best friends, we hung out together doing fun things of common interest.
I fell in love with her long before she did with me, and I kept it a secret for almost a year. I found out later that she knew all along.
I was out of town on business, traveling all over the country. Before meeting her I was a committed bachelor that intended to stay single forever.... at least for another 5 years.
Then it occurred to me that she might not wait for 5 years, so, as unromantic as this may be, I called her from Carlsbad, New Mexico and asked her to be my bride. She said “maybe” but that I would have to ask her in person.
I caught the next flight back to Seattle. She met me at the airport, where I asked her again. She smiled and said, “of course I will”. We got into my car and drove straight to Reno where we were married in a small chapel.
We spent one night in a motel and then drove back to the Sea-Tac airport in Seattle. I few out and couldn’t return for almost 30 days. I realized that I needed to change careers because I couldn’t stand being away from her for so long.
To this day she remains my best friend, my beautiful woman, my lover, my Bride, the mother of our two children, my strength, my confidant, my reason for taking my next breath, and my only fantasy.
That trip to Reno was 40 years ago.
I remain the luckiest guy in the world.
NICE
Are you kidding? Haven't you ever watched TV or gone to a movie? EVER??
I think you missed the entire point of the article. It's not that marriage is perfect or that all marriages succeed. It's that our culture has been telling us for decades that marriage makes you unhappy, that the only good sex is outside of marriage, and that living together, or having random sex is better than being married. The point is that the numbers aren't accurate and that marriage is a good thing, in spite of what we're being fed.
It's part of the progressive agenda, and it's part of the homosexual agenda to destroy marriage, and dissuade young people from believing in marriage (which they have partially succeeded in doing).
This is a good article!
I suggest you better read again and read it very slowly. What the author is saying is the it is a myth that married couple don’t have sex
"If we only knew how God regards this Sacrifice, we would risk our lives to be present at a single Mass." St. Padre Pio.
Thanks SO MUCH for posting that!
What an aplty spoken word.
She’s 40 and I’m 48
Neither have been married before and no children
I’ve known her for over two years.
She didn’t seem to want to date me, but I kept telling my friends that she simply “rocked my world”.
We’d spend many evenings laughing, sometimes playing some pool, soetimes just a beer or glass of wine, sometimes on the boat together.
Every other woman fell short of her, in my eyes.
One day, a few months back I told a casual freind, upon seeing her walk into a social gathering; “See that girl? She’s gonna marry me on day. She just doesn’t know it yet!”
My friend asked; “have you told HER that yet? Because you need to.”
Two weeks later, I told her, face to face. We laughed until our faces hurt. Turns out she’d been waiting and wanting the same.
Yesterday, I picked up the ring. Sunday we are having a huge birthday party for her with 30+ frineds. I’m flying her mom into town as a surpise for her.
I’m going to ask her if she will marry me on Sunday afternoon.
My grandpa once told a friend upon seeing a certain woman for the first time, back in 1923; “Do you see that girl across the room? She’s going to marry me one day!” His friend scoffed, but that woman and he lived to 99 years of age together and were married 74 years.
I’m praying my grandpa’s blessing is also mine.
...will post how it goes after the weekend.
thanks again.
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