Any good suggestions? Thinking about getting her a cooking class, maybe a self help book or her own bedroom
25 year wedding anniversary coming soon
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Amazed anyone maried you for any amount of years..
Still, can't wait to see what pretty awesome gift you get her.. while you get a tie and a 3-pack of underwear..
Women...
Still, can't wait to see what pretty awesome gift you get her.. while you get a tie and a 3-pack of underwear..
Women...
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My condolences. Serial killers don't even get 25 years.
An impressive feat. I’m surprised she has not wanted to find herself, get sold on how wonderful single life is by her divorced friends, made a vision board and try to change her wardrobe and start bringing up grievances from arguments in 2014.
23 years for me. Plan a trip. That always seems to go over well.
34 years in July. Looking at going to the Biltmore in Asheville for our 35th anniversary next year.
Continue saying ...Yes Dear...I'll get right on that Dear.
And here's the biggie...You're right Honey!
Keep doing that and you'll cruise right by 30 years like I have...
I've worked with women and have seen this unfold. Mid 30's or so, married young, had kids young. Some guy starts paying attention to her, telling her she's sexy....An impressive feat. I’m surprised she has not wanted to find herself, get sold on how wonderful single life is by her divorced friends, made a vision board and try to change her wardrobe and start bringing up grievances from arguments in 2014.
Meanwhile, the husband is busy being a father and provider and believes she's busy with work stuff. A few months later - boom. Divorce.
Sounds like you lived that life.An impressive feat. I’m surprised she has not wanted to find herself, get sold on how wonderful single life is by her divorced friends, made a vision board and try to change her wardrobe and start bringing up grievances from arguments in 2014.
Pffft. Rookies. Coming up on 59 years in a few months.
Kudos my man. People often ask me for pointers but I bet you have some. I tell em I have a workshop with a wood stove, refrigerator, tv and a cot!
im on 13. my secret is to just never say the things i think and bury the hate.
My advice:
Choose someone who has MOST of the things you are looking for in a mate - because no one, in the end, will be EVERYTHING you are hoping for. Court them long enough to know the REAL them. Then, suck it up and learn to accept the parts of them you don't like.
Women marry men, hoping they will change. But usually they don't.
Men marry women, hoping they won't change. But usually they do.
29 years in October for me / us. Both of our sons were still in HS for our 25th so it was a relatively low-key event. With both in college now, we’re talking about a trip to Europe for our 30th for the fall of 2023.
We made a visit to the Biltmore / Asheville back in 1999(?). Really nice, enjoyed it.
That is a great trip especially in the spring when flowers are blooming in the gardens and when they have it decorated for Christmas.
I think it's amazing that you have been in a relationship this long and it's what many men aspire to achieve. However, women are not the same as they were from your era. This group has been brought up in an era of entitlement, never allowed to be disappointed, pumped full of feminist BS and selfishness, taught that 'Sex and the City' (be a ho, base your identity on your career) is the model of happiness and infidelity among women is now very high up there.
Guys have a very small group of quality women to choose from today. I thank God I never had to do the online dating stuff.
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And it's good advice. Her inability to store things in the same place drives me crazy.
Tell me about it. I have two daughters in their 50s, both now single, who have been through a stringer of bums (husbands and shackups) most of whose names I cannot even remember. The only consolation has been the good grandkids they gave me.
It’s my understanding that men raised in the 40s believed women growing up in the 70s were huge whores.
Probably given post 1960s life.But I’m not that far removed from the age group I’m discussing as I’m sure you aren’t either.
I’ve been on both ends of it- taken advantage of it in my late teens and 20s, and been burned by it, seen my best friend, my brother, my brother’s best friend, my former boss, all go though this **** show. I also get to hear all of my buddies dating stories and my new wife tells me some stories about a couple of her friends.
Not super relevant I suppose but my GF in college had a friend who was getting screwed on a pool table in front of people at a frat house and that has always been my nightmare as I imagine that girl has a husband and he has no idea of that.
I shared a story of my best friend and his ex GF who was an absolute psycho and apparently a former cam girl.
Anyway, she was the type who would start a fight over everything, sabotage an event, storm off, even freaked out in a parking lot cause she got a dime-size coffee stain on her shirt, etc. One day she was rattling off all of these criticisms of my buddy and everything he needed to do to her liking. My buddy asks, “And what do I get?”
Her response? “The privilege of being with me."
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Congrats on 25. A lot of people these days sadly won’t reach that point, but it is great to know that you share so much with someone else. To be married to your best friend is a blessing.
I know a guy and gal from bar I used to go to that were engage to be married about 25 years ago. I was told that while he had a bachelor party, his wife went to the bar and banged every guy that would meet her in the restroom with a line of coke. They are still married and have a boy and girl in their 20's. They still frequent that bar. Not sure if he ever learned of that particular night, but my guess is there are many other tales that I am not aware.
But I’m not that far removed from the age group I’m discussing as I’m sure you aren’t either.
I’ve been on both ends of it- taken advantage of it in my late teens and 20s, and been burned by it, seen my best friend, my brother, my brother’s best friend, my former boss, all go though this **** show. I also get to hear all of my buddies dating stories and my new wife tells me some stories about a couple of her friends.
Not super relevant I suppose but my GF in college had a friend who was getting screwed on a pool table in front of people at a frat house and that has always been my nightmare as I imagine that girl has a husband and he has no idea of that.
I shared a story of my best friend and his ex GF who was an absolute psycho and apparently a former cam girl.
Anyway, she was the type who would start a fight over everything, sabotage an event, storm off, even freaked out in a parking lot cause she got a dime-size coffee stain on her shirt, etc. One day she was rattling off all of these criticisms of my buddy and everything he needed to do to her liking. My buddy asks, “And what do I get?”
Her response? “The privilege of being with me."
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