Senile from Day 1

[neurosis]

So what you guys are telling me, is to never get married?   

We already know how it worked out for Incog. 

There isn't a very strong case to be made so far.

[RobertELee]

So what you guys are telling me, is to never get married? 

We already know how it worked out for Incog. 

There isn't a very strong case to be made so far.

Last weekend we went to a Christmas party, she said it was informal so I went in the closet grabbed one of my usual Duluth Trading shirts and walked out. About 4.6 seconds later a little birdie tapped me on the shoulder and told me I should ask my wife what to wear. I turned around walked back in the closet and asked "what do you want me to wear?". With a glint in her eye and a smirk on her face "oh good!" 

[Newbeeee™]

Last weekend we went to a Christmas party, she said it was informal so I went in the closet grabbed one of my usual Duluth Trading shirts and walked out. About 4.6 seconds later a little birdie tapped me on the shoulder and told me I should ask my wife what to wear. I turned around walked back in the closet and asked "what do you want me to wear?". With a glint in her eye and a smirk on her face "oh good!" 

Tell me you never had to wear her panties

[Del.]

Do you married guys remember when you knew what shirt went with your pants, and how you could navigate to a destination without input from the wife?

[RobertELee]

Do you married guys remember when you knew what shirt went with your pants, and how you could navigate to a destination without input from the wife?

Nope, never happened

[CNCAppsJames]

So what you guys are telling me, is to never get married? 

I recommend marriage... but also I acknowledge it's clearly not for everyone. I would not personally and professionally be where I am today without her. I make better decisions because I have a wife... that "I wouldn't do that shit if I was you!" voice of hers has saved my bacon more times than I can count.

You have to go into marriage with a certain mindset. If you can't say "no matter what, we're in this together, for life...", and mean it, with every fiber of your being. Then it's better to not get married. Children are not as resilient  as we think they are. The isssues we as parents create for them will shape their lives. Maybe they have it in them to overcome how ever we screw them up, clearly that is not the case for all of them.

So, if you're going to marry, choose wisely. If you choose wisely, chose them for life. If you choose them for life, odds are good that things will go as well as possible.

JM2CFWIW

[Del.]

You're not truly married until you retire together and launch a boat.

[neurosis]

I recommend marriage... but also I acknowledge it's clearly not for everyone.

I spent the majority of my life living the Charlie Sheen lifestyle less the drugs.  I stopped doing that in my teens.  It wasn't until the last 10 years of my life that I started to settle down.  I never wanted children and I never considered being married. I don't have any regrets. I had a lot of fun.

I got super lucky meeting my current g/f.  It was just by chance that I met her. She lived on the eastern side of the State and just happened to be over visiting her daughter. On a VERY rare occasion, I went to my Boss's house for a bbq. I never hang out with my boss. We went to a bar in Ballard and my current g/f was in there having a drink to get away from her kids house for a few. I sat down at the bar next to her and just started talking and the rest is history. 

My prior relationships never made it past the 3 year mark.  lol.  I'd get bored and move on.  I've been together with her now for almost 8 years and if I were going to marry someone, it would be her. We've discussed it just for medical reasons. She also works for the State so has better insurance that I do.  

So, if you're going to marry, choose wisely. If you choose wisely, chose them for life. If you choose them for life, odds are good that things will go as well as possible.

I've already told this g/f that this is it. If something ever happened and we were to break up, I'm just going to be celibate or hire hookers.   

[YoDoug]

Do you married guys remember when you knew what shirt went with your pants, and how you could navigate to a destination without input from the wife?

The older I get the more color blind I am getting. I often need my wife to tell the difference between blue/black and dark green/gray.

[Newbeeee™]

I've already told this g/f that this is it. If something ever happened and we were to break up, I'm just going to be celibate or hire hookers. 

I worked with a guy who worked with a guy back in the mid 70's that would always take a Monday off work, following the last weekend of the month (I hope you're keeping up  )
Reason was, last week of the month was "London weekend" so he'd travel up on the Friday night, "meet his girlfriends" and party hard, and drive back Monday.
In to work Tues, thoroughly drained , but he apparently reckoned that over the years, he saved a crap-ton of money by not having a wife, and had far more fun by not having a wife

 

[CNCAppsJames]

Prior to meeting my wife in 1992 (5 years clean), the number of g/f's I had were relatively few. In my teens the "relationship" lengths were generally measured in weeks. When BMX and drugs ARE unapologetically your life, most girls don't take too kindly to that. #Shocker 

After I got clean in '87 I had a few g/f's. Those "relationships" generally lasted in the low single digit months at most. It took several years of learning how to live a healthy life. When you've spent 40% of yiur life on drugs, and probably half of that doing hard drugs... not really conducive to an emotionally healty life. Takes a minute tonshake that off. 

Honestly, it was for the better. When I met my wife in April of 1992, I was in a place mentally, physically, and spiritually that would make it possible to sustain a healthy relationship. After dating for a few months I knew she was the one. 6 months after dating I proposed and we were married 14 months later.

It hasn't been easy. Probably easier for me than her. I'm an only child and it REALLY is a thing. It takes extraordinary effort to remember "hey, it's not just you SFB...". She's 100% worth the effort in every way.  

JM2CFWIW YMMV

 

[Elmer Fudd]

Since retiring my wife is so horny it all I can do to keep up. 

[mowens]

Tell me you never had to wear her panties

Well, he never "had" to.

[ghuns]

You're not truly married until you retire together and launch a boat.

I don't know.

Greatest test of our marriage was the annual loading of the kids 4H pigs. Getting somewhere between 4 to 8, 250+ pound pigs through a trailer door was rough.

First 6 or so years it always ended with the wife and kids crying and me screaming and cussing.

Around year 7 the boy kid was big enough to be helpful and I came up with a better system so the two of us could load them and the wimmens could just stay the hell in the house.

[Del.]

First time me and the wife loaded our boat I had to yell so she could hear me over the engine. She was driving the boat. She never forgot me yelling at her. From then on I told her I didn't care if she powered the boat through the back window of truck and I wouldn't say a thing. Women never forget