Posted on 05/06/2015 8:24:21 PM PDT by fkabuckeyesrule
That’s a question Peter Lloyd tackles in a series in London’s Daily Mail about Britain’s marriage rate, which is at its lowest level since 1895. “The state of matrimony is not just ailing. It is dying out faster than a mobile phone battery,” Lloyd writes. “For an army of women, Mr. Right is simply not there, no matter how hard they look for him.”
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I'm repeating myself here, but it applies.
Well said.
LOL
Do what I do with my husband’s cowlick...just trim the ends off.
Amen to that!
Wow, you got drug through it too, huh?
:)
No wonder theyvwalk away.
LOL
Thank you for that encouraging reply!
Seeing my openmouthed expression, he continued lightly. "When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no doubt. And I didn't. When I woke in the dark under that tree on the road to Leoch, with you sitting on my chest, cursing me for bleeding to death, I said to myself, 'Jamie Fraser, for all ye canna see what she looks like, and for all she weighs as much as a good draft horse, this is the woman'"
I started toward him, and he backed away, talking rapidly. "I said to myself, 'She's mended ye twice in as many hours, me lad; life amongst the MacKenzies being what it is, it might be as well to wed a woman as can stanch a wound and set broken bones.' And I said to myself, 'Jamie, lad, if her touch feels so bonny on your collarbone, imagine what it might feel like lower down...'"
He dodged around a chair. "Of course, I thought it might ha' just been the effects of spending four months in a monastery, without benefit of female companionship, but then that ride through the dark together"--he paused to sigh theatrically, neatly evading my grab at his sleeve--"with that lovely broad arse wedged between my thighs"--he ducked a blow aimed at his left ear and sidestepped, getting a low table between us--"and that rock-solid head thumping me in the chest"--a small metal ornament bounced off his own head and went clanging to the floor--"I said to myself..."
He was laughing so hard at this point that he had to gasp for breath between phrases. "Jamie...I said...for all she's a Sassenach bitch...with a tongue like an adder's ...with a bum like that...what does it matter if she's a f-face like a sh-sh-eep?"
I tripped him neatly and landed on his stomach with both knees as he hit the floor with a crash that shook the house.
"You mean to tell me that you married me out of love?" I demanded. He raised his eyebrows, struggling to draw in breath.
"Have I not...just been...saying so?”
jwalsh FTTW!!!
I wasn’t actually referring to women who would be attracted to a middle-aged man who is re-entering the dating world, presumably after a divorce or other major breakup. I was referring more to young women I know who are in their twenties, Christian, pretty, slender, sweet-tempered, supportive, conservative, unmarried, educated, and childless.
Where is your son located? I might introduce him to my daughter, who is beautiful, a good cook, and a crack shot.
Agreed!
It's like that with any philosophically formed topic.
In the current case, you are dealing with a) women facing up to the duplicitous, condescending, culture they subscribe to, b) religious beliefs about what will and will not sustain a marriage. In either case, negative testimony about the validity of their beliefs means either they are wrong, or you are...and almost no one is going to admit they are the one in the wrong until they are drug kicking and screaming to it.
And for the record...I’m not and have never been divorced. I’ve been married for 28 years.
If my wife didn’t stand head an shoulders above nearly EVERy woman I’ve met in my life, I wouldn’t be married.
Bull. Like any partnership, any marriage can be destroyed by the misdeeds of a single party. To impute blame to the victimized party for the sake of one's childish ideals is a sin against justice.
Are you kidding? Addicts have no one to blame but themselves, and American women are addicted to winning.
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