oh no...............

**ClockworkOrange** · 10-03-2006, 01:28 AM

Originally Posted by Kitsune06

.........................Love, requited or not, passion, romance, excitement and the thrill of seeking or attaining all of these are what life is about. The day you stop seeking excitement, happiness and passion is the day you're ready to die... and that's not youth speaking... but it sure seems easy to forget these things when commitments take presidence in your life.

You have summed it up superbly.

The real excitement, happiness and passion happened to me only six years ago but is continuing, it will do until I am reliant on a Stannah stair lift...........come to think of it, even that could be fun.

You have the right attitude...........I so wish others could take this on board..

Young head on old shoulders eh!

Excellent post.

Sally

**spokewench** · 10-03-2006, 09:34 AM

18 1/2 years so far - It has its bumps but were still happy! We've been almost 20 and our kitty, Big Kitty will be 20 next year! The Cat has more stamina than we do I think!

But so far so good

**mimitabby** · 10-03-2006, 10:15 AM

I guess in March it will be 29 years!

We started dating in December (I told my self that I would never get involved with this guy) he proposed to me IN DECEMBER. I waited a month. Said yes,
if you're willing to make a commitment; he said he felt the same way.

We got married in March, neither of us had a job...We had #1 son in November.. at which time neither of us were working either. Anyone making a prediction
would have said we wouldn't last. but we didn't last, we THRIVED.

Our kids used to brag about having dinner at home with both parents to their friends.

We are still friends, still romantic. I really got a good DH.

the rule: an adaptation of the golden rule: do MORE than the 50% you think THEY should. If you both try to do more than 50% of the work, it will come out all right.

**Raindrop** · 10-03-2006, 09:58 PM

OK, at first I didn't like him, then he turned out to be not quite the a$$ I thought he was, then I dated him and then we were very close friends for the next twenty years and then finally, two years ago, I married him. Guess I'm either a slow learner or just really, really careful??

He really is the best part of me.

**CyclChyk** · 10-05-2006, 08:14 AM

Raindrop I love your sig line!!! I too am Vertically Challanged

**kelownagirl** · 10-05-2006, 06:49 PM

So nice to hear of all these wonderful, long-term relationships! Gives me hope that mine will last...

**KnottedYet** · 10-05-2006, 07:58 PM

I have decided there is no such thing as romantic love. Just "miserable" and "slightly less miserable." Or maybe "miserable in a different way."

Somehow I missed the entrance to the world of happy spouses.

(but I have a really nice bike!

)

**chickwhorips** · 10-05-2006, 08:05 PM

Originally Posted by KnottedYet

(but I have a really nice bike!

)

as long as you have that KN. (even if it took forever to get there or so it seemed.)

**margo49** · 10-05-2006, 09:04 PM

Originally Posted by KnottedYet

I have decided there is no such thing as romantic love. ."

Somehow I missed the entrance to the world of happy spouses.

Romantic love is a construct of American Cultural Imperialism solely designed to alienate women from our natural sexuality and distance us from our true feelings to the point we won't know what we're doing and won't even care with whom.
Sadly, it is effective; on women *in* relationships (and not just het ones) and women not and (the worst and most dangerous) women looking for a relationship
[and I will not add "gets down off soap-box" or "pushes inner Late 1970's - early 80's Feminist Ideologue back into cargo-bag of memento's of Glorious Revolutionary Past" because I talk like this all the time. Really]

Yeah, there was a run of people there for a few posts telling how long they had been together with their Various Others. (I was even one of them!) Re-reading it en masse it was *just too much*. Of course each of us was only speaking for herself but it made such a stream of posts.

**hellosunshine** · 10-09-2006, 12:04 PM

well,what do ya know,tipped water over computer,it died,sooooooooo had to ring him at home and..............GUESS WHAT GALS!!!!!!HIS WIFE ANSWERED......."oh yes but we lead seperate lives"was the reply.methinks friends yes!lovers NO.

**kaybee** · 10-09-2006, 12:53 PM

Oops! Good thing you found out early.

KB

**BleeckerSt_Girl** · 10-09-2006, 01:10 PM

What a jerk to not even mention that he was married. The old "Yes, but we lead separate lives" routine?...UGH!!!

**esther231** · 10-09-2006, 01:23 PM

Unbelievable.

I'll hold him down while you hit him.

**DebW** · 10-09-2006, 01:27 PM

Well this thread certainly turned around. Afraid I'm in the "romance is overrated and generally unnecessary" camp (except as applied to bikes of course

). Though there's something to be said for having an SO who'll pick you up from the ER after you crash your bike, even if he does laugh when he finds out you crashed.

**BleeckerSt_Girl** · 10-09-2006, 01:43 PM

Well there are wonderful romances and then there are disappointing or even lousy romances- life is full of variety!

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