Any childless by choice married couples out there?
Meghane
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Comments (1)It looks like you are looking for flat out the best in each category. Range Capital Culinarian Series CGSR484G2 6 Open burners,Griddle,Self-clean oven with Motorized Rotisserie Vent Hood Modern-Aire or Prestige with biggest blower. Steam Oven Gaggenau plumbed no water tank like Wolf. Dishwasher- I love my Miele La Perla II I am sure you will love Diamond. MW- Sharp Drawer. Wine Cooler and Beverage Fridge-- Perlick. The most efficent,quietest and made in the USA. Trash Compactor-- This is so 90's, No? SZ BI-48S and Hoshizaki rock. Warming drawer- Whatever matches what you end up getting with steam oven....See MoreSingle & Childless
Comments (18)Here is what happens when you don't meet the right person and you are 50...absolutely nothing....life goes on. This is my own personal experience. I only mentioned this because life sometimes deals you a bad hand. I am very glad to hear Carrie may have found someone. Some people get very depressed and others get over it. My sister had it both ways and loves being single. She is almost 50, no kids, no crisis. A personal crisis is created when you measure yourself against what you THINK is societies norm. Well I have found that similar groups of people in society find one another. About 90% of my friends and neighbors that I associate with are single, childless and are about 50. They never found the right person. Some of them had their moments of depression but got through it. Another "for instance" is that they are all non-smokers. Obviously that was no accident but you get my point. If you dwell on a bad situation, it can eat you alive. When you find a relationship that you thought would work out but ends up blowing up on you...the operative word to meditate on is: "NEXT"!...See MoreAny childless stepmoms here?
Comments (72)"Mistihayes and ima clearly just want to argue with me for the sake of arguing. I am quite sure if one of the other SM's were to criticize corporate farming, they would agree wholeheartedly." I'm not just arguing for the sake of arguing. I think you are wrong. I don't disagree that family farms can't fairly compete with corporate farming. Without corporate farming, there would not be enough produce, dairy or meat. Small farms don't produce enough to feed everyone and the prices would be outrageous if that was the only option. It's not fair to blame corporate farming per se, when it is a matter of supply & demand. and to be honest, I have never thought of New England and thought 'dairy farm', I think of clam chowder. Now, if you said Wisconsin, I'd think dairy farm. I'm sure there are small dairy farms throughout the country that produce better quality products and aren't getting rich doing it. I'd think they would stay in it for the enjoyment they get by producing their product. This whole issue got me thinking about when I was a kid. My mom used to take me downtown to get my clothes and we'd shop in the small boutiques on main street. Back then, it was a small town. (about 2,000 people) and now, it's grown to over 40,000. Main street has become a tourist attraction with mostly antique stores. All the boutiques are gone and Wal Mart has become the place to shop. I think it's terrible for the small business owner when a large corporation comes in and they can't compete. However, there is such a huge demand for low prices and variety of selection that those small stores didn't have. There have been a few stores that have tried to open up and last just a few months. I'll shop in them when they are here because I support small business, but the prices are quite a bit higher and when you have to put gas in your tank and support children, you can't always spend that much more. misti, "Anyone who lives in a big beautiful home is rich to me. Kind of a simple way of defining rich." I thought that way too before I started doing what I do now. There is a community in the next town over that developers came in and built extravagant luxury homes in an exclusive (gated) community. These houses were selling like hotcakes for half million to well over a million. (the half million dollar homes were not too fancy or big, kinda plain) Many of the people that bought these homes had sold their homes in the bay area, where shabby homes can cost over a million. They came here and got interest only loans and used the money from the sale of their old homes to have fun. They bought boats, hummers, jet skis, ATV's, just a lot of toys and spent weekends enjoying it. They must have figured with the housing market so hot, they'd be able to do an interest only loan for six months or a year and during that time, the equity would grow. My sister bought a house and she gained $30k in equity before it closed. Then the market turned and values began to drop. I've served many foreclosures and evictions in that gated community. The developer is being sued (I served him last week) and most of the homes are now vacant. There are for sale signs all over the place. It looks like a ghost town most of the time. A year ago, if you said 'I live in _______'(name of the community), it meant "I'm rich" (and most of the people that did live in there would say it in a pretentious way, as to say "don't you know who I am?") but now, if someone says they live there, I say "really? you haven't lost your home yet?" Okay, I don't actually say that but I do think it. I guess my point is that people that live in big beautiful homes may be mortgaged to the eyeballs and losing sleep over it when others are looking in from the outside saying 'wow, they have it all.'...See MoreShould married couples be split up in a wedding party???
Comments (56)You write, “I have not asked her anything. We discussed aspects of things of this nature years ago and for the most part she agreed at the time. Maybe she still does? Maybe she changed? Maybe she never really meant it? I don't know. But I have said nothing to her about this since she brought up being a bridesmaid months ago.” i am confused. This is so important to you, but when she told you about being a bridesmaid, you said nothing. Months passed and you said nothing. The wedding is tomorrow, and you’ve still said nothing. Nor have you confirmed what you hoped she feels about this. What‘s the plan here? Just let her think everything’s fine, and then she comes home from the wedding to find you gone for good, with no warning? This sounds like a pretty sneaky test. It’s one thing to ask that she make sacrifices for your feelings. It’s quite another to require that she read your mind as well. You talk about a “clear” line -- how clear can it be to her if you haven’t said a word? It is baffling that in all these months you never told her how you felt, how important this is to you, that you really don’t want her to be in this wedding. Even if you tell her now, with just hours to go before the wedding, you are putting her in an impossible spot. You never just asked for what you want and need. You never gave her a chance to succeed. That’s what loving spouses do. Which terrible outcome are you hoping for? That she will read your mind (or listen to an eleventh-hour ultimatum — because that’s exactly what it would be) and back out of the wedding, which will make everyone she knows think forever that you are a world-class controlling jerk? Or that you will have an excuse to walk out? Those are the only two outcomes you have set up. I strongly encourage you to consider a third: accept that your wife is going to be in the wedding and attend graciously without complaint as her escort. If you don’t think you could pull that off, then plead illness and stay home — a very rude thing to do, but much better than spoiling someone's wedding. Next time, you can talk it over first, and maybe get a pleasant surprise. It wouldn‘t mean your feelings and opinions are wrong at all. It’s just being a loving and caring grownup spouse, and playing fair....See Morephyllis_philodendron
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