Husband And Wife Relationships

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  1. Marie Mallery

    Marie Mallery Veteran Member
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    Trev, mind if abbreviate your name? I have trouble typing. So you are a talker well me too at times. I guess you and Janet are somewhat like hubby and I. Sometimes I hold up my hand and ask if I can speak, other times he is too quite. He will ask me ," is that a trick question'.:D.
     
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    We keep busy around our home on a home size block of land think it’s about 800 sq mtrs so our home takes up at least 3/4 of the land.
    We are sorta busy trimming our fruit trees at the moment as we head into winter ….but regardless of what we are doing around our home we stop work or my case allot of the time playing games on here :):)
    hubby makes us morning smoko ( coffee and a biscuit ) nah ..we don’t smoke never have ..so we chat about our day
    then I usually say times up I want to go back and play a few games :):D
     
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  3. Marie Mallery

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    Sounds like you two have a good life.
     
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    Do you think I'll be in trouble for buying my wife a cup (not her only gift, by any means) for her upcoming birthday that has, on one side...

    Happy Birthday,
    Michelle

    And on the other side...

    You don't look
    a day over 70.

    She will be 65.
     
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    Nah, go for it.

    (dibs on your tools.)
     
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    I've not. I looked it up on Amazon to refresh my memory, as I don't recall ever hearing of it. It was published in 1969 when I was 15, so maybe it faded into obscurity before I hit an age where it may have caught my [adult] attention.

    When I quit drinking in 1990, Joseph Campbell (the archetypal hero's journey) was big in some groups, as were men's drum circles (I've never participated), but that's about as close as I came to this topic on any formal or scholarly basis.
     
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  7. Marie Mallery

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    You may want to change the wording a little,lol. Of course if she has a real witty personality it could work. Also the 'other' gifts along with the cup better be good ones.
     
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    Well obviously Michelle has a great sense of humor; she married you didn't she??? :p:p (It's been nice knowing you.)
     
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    I believe there was an original and then it was re-released in a modified edition. I only read the first book. I believe he was a sociologist who studied groups of men in different environments. He had some interesting conclusions if I recall, and perhaps that is why men's groups have been under fire ever since. He thought groups of men were the most powerful force in any society and generally made the rules the society lived by.
     
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    Aaah! If only I had time to share my expertise from 1.25 years of marriage. :p:rolleyes:
     
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  11. Marie Mallery

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    Faye, nobody said it had to be a long term marriage.
     
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    True, but any wisdom I could pass along doesn't apply to this forum. I.E. don't get married young and don't marry until your future spouse undergoes a complete psychiatric exam. Don't let hormones rule. Don't marry unless you like to gamble and are lucky.
     
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    Well, my wife and I absolutely LOVE marriage. Luckily, we were both totally "marriage minded" when we met.
     
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    LOL I ran away and married when I was 17. Had 3 kids in from August 68- April 71.Had all by C=Section so doctor and my family insisted on my sterilization.
    While I was having babies so were 6 hippie females by him, so I had 3 and he had 9 while we were married.:mad: A constant fight. He taught me how to be strong though. Next marriage was just to get out of the street with my kids.
    Then I met hubby. I told him the kids didn't choose him I did and only I could do the correcting which I did that too kids said I was too strict but it worked all are good independent except oldest daughter thinks her grand kids are above reproach. No respect. She is raising them since her daughter my grandkid #3 which was so smart and talented [ I love and miss her terribly ] is in prison for next 30 years for armed robbery for drugs.
    She spoils those kids she is raising one born addicted to herion. What a terrible thing that was for my daughter but the kid turned out great ,he is 10 now. Oldest boy always had an attitude he is 13. Daughter thinks I blame her for spoiling her daughter but I don't at all. I just don't think spoiling these two boys will be helpful. Buy last couple years they are doing good and she is tightening up on the discipline.
     
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    This morning started off 'questionable'. First off hubby gave me a list of things he has done, like I'm not aware. Then he turned the porch fan off [ the same one I had on ] and was sitting on porch in a cloud of smoke when I went out to smoke myself,etc,etc,etc,.
    We argued some and I told him, " any ass to kiss around here is what's left of mine" . He hasn't laughed that hard in weeks maybe months.o_O. I dare not ask him why that was so funny.
     
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