you should send then a card and picture of you and you husband every year on your anniversary... 8^)Your post wasn’t a rant; I think it was very good and I agree with it.
You want to hear sad? My darling husband and I married in 1996. During our courtship and engagement, I worked with a bunch of women-—some single, some married-—who had in the past been friends, but when I met my man, began to turn against me. These were all women with a modern, feministic attitude toward men and life. When we got engaged, they treated the news with open cynicism. They laughed and told me, go ahead, get married, but in a couple of years you’ll be sick of him and be glad to get him out of the house.
He bought me a gorgeous engagement ring, and the day he went down on his knee to put it on my finger I was the happiest woman in the world. When I wore it to work, one of the women made fun of it for not being the perfect color diamond. The manager, a female, swiped the ring when I had to take it off for a moment, and hid it all day, swearing she didn’t know what had happened to it. I was panicked and heartbroken over losing it. At the end of the day, she brought it out and gave it back to me, laughing over the “joke.”
Later on, as I got closer to my wedding date, I overheard the manager and assistant manager behind closed doors, wondering how they could find a reason to fire me. One of them said they were sick of seeing me flounce around, so happy all the time. So I quit, and basically told them all to go to hell.
Well, it will be our 17th anniversary in August and we are more in love than ever. I’m not happy when he leaves the house; I’m excited to see him come home. But those women did their best to try and ruin my happiness. I feel sorry for bitter harridans like that.
Part of me, though, wishes I could go back and deal with those witches again. I’m a lot less naive now, and a LOT less inclined to take anyone’s crap.
you should send then a card and picture of you and you husband every year on your anniversary... 8^)“During our courtship and engagement, I worked with a bunch of women-—some single, some married-—who had in the past been friends, but when I met my man, began to turn against me.”
My wife dealt with the same crap; I thought at the time (and still believe) that it was caused by 1) the other women being in relationships with marriage nowhere on the horizon, and 2) some of them being in the only relationships available (that they didn’t think should end in marriage - settling for dating someone who was NOT marriage material).
Disgusting. So glad you left that horrible place.
God's blessings on you & your husband.
Wow is all I can say to that story. 20 years for me in March and still in love. I married when I was 19 and since I had to raise him I might as well keep him. ;) Congrats on 17 happy years.