Our marriage is failing
anniegray
11 years ago
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Comments (3)There are probably several reasons. Surges are one. Increased electronic complexity is another -- increasing the number of parts increases the probability of failure. ROHS is a third. The European Greens have managed to ban lead solder from European manufactured or sold electronics and US industries wanting to sell to Europe have to comply. This leads to ever fewer lead compatible parts in the marketplace. Lead free solder used in electronics tends to grow tin whiskers that leads to shorts, both on circuit boards and internal to integrated circuit packages. Fortunately, for US warfighters, lead-free solder is generally prohibited by DoD for use on military electronics, pending development of sufficiently reliable solder chemistry and techniques. Unfortunately for us, lead-free solder is increasingly used on medical equipment, as well as appliances. Good luck kas...See Morereply;...don't know what's wrong with our marriage
Comments (3)dear justine grower, I have lurked at your last post and having witnessed the end of my mothers no good marriage, and remembering my position as her young daughter at the time, this is a I need to see through. I spoke to a friend of mine who is a psychologist, he says that your husband is displaying classic sociopathic behavior, he may not a murderer, but he is void of actual feeling, and everything and everyone is simply being kept neatly in their rightful place in his life because this is where they are in his mind. He will never divorce you, but you will never feel loved by him, you are there simply to play your role, as your daughter is. But I am afraid for your daughter, because when she develops into a young woman with wants and needs contrary to daddy's ideas for her, her self esteem will be crushed by him, because she will too, be kept neatly in place and eventually grow in to a woman who will not make a decision without, specifically, his direction. If this is the case for her, what will happen to her when something happens to him. She will never individuate from him, he will be the extension of her that gives direction to her life. May I ask, what happens when you have an idea concernign some decision for your daughter that he opposes? Does your idea stand a chance, or does he go on proving his postition by making you of no effect in the direction of her life, except when it corresponds with his ideas? I am sorry that you are sad, and that you feel the natural loving and maternal need to save him, or help him heal, but you need to realise that his way of thinking and analysing real llife aituations is not going to change, or even get better without some serious therapy, multiplied years of therapy, and he must be submissive at that, now honestly, do you really think this is possible? He feels safe only when things can be controlled, which is why he is great at work, there is no emotion to complicate the work environment, there is simply a formula to follow, the rules are straight laced, he walks the beaten path everyday, and can follow the same rules over and over and over again to make things work for him there without question. But with you, when he follows the same rules over and over and over again, there are questions, complications and unhappiness, which he cannot understand anyway 'I can't connect to his personality, he says one thing today and something else tomorrow, doesn't even remember or says 'well that was yesterday'. Sometimes I wonder who the hell he really is?' You are not loved, you are simply filling a role normal to an adult male in his adult male life. So is your daughter, 'Like he never memorizes things about me, after 10 years he still gets me wrong presents and red instead of white wine. He is not on my side if somebody hurts my feelings' It is obvious that your role as 'wife' in his life had been fashioned in his mind long before you even met him. You are in a position that fits no one but him, in his mind the wife he has isn;t anyone but someone he made up, I guess that you were the closest fit, or a woman who was easy to mold, or make fit into what he envisions. Was he abused as a child, why was his emotional development so stunted, that he plays life? You do realise that he isn't living it right? And I am sorry, but you cannot save him in time to save your daughter. Get out for your daughter's sake, even if you are convinced that you love him and want to see him better, then look on him and support his progress as a friend. Please get your daughter out of there....See MoreHelp! Save our marriage....granite color
Comments (10)oh come on, are there really men out there who care? Just kidding. My husband could care less if we even have a counter top. We just got our granite today. we have been using the raw plywood that thankfully our cabinet maker put on for us. I don't know why he makes them like that, but he does. I ended up going with the cold springs granite, which is very much like delicatus on my perimeter cabs and I did the absolute black on my island. I love the contrast! it is beautiful. my kitchen is not finished yet, and please excuse the granite dust from today. we have to adjust the feet on the stove to raiseit up to the height of the granite, and I am not finished painting, but you can see how they look together. maybe you could compromise with two granites?...See MoreBlessing of our Marriage Day!
Comments (3)It was a very relaxing, good food, family and friends and just perfect weather! The tents we boughts at Big Lots for $20 a piece and they stood up real well. We cooked BBQ, grilled chicken, corn, baked beans, other food, I baked 2 cakes, one for the blessing and 1 for my daughter's birthday; I made a special vegatarian dish for the minister sister in law; let the kids swim in the hot tub, my husband teaching our granddaughter how to do the fins up dance from Jimmy Buffet song. Everyone had a blast! Thanks, Brittsgrams...See Moremkroopy
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