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is this how married people should act ? poll blue or silver?

Marriage (Part I)

Typical macho man married typical good-looking lady, and
after the wedding, he laid down the following rules:

‘I’ll be home when I want, if I want and at what time
I want — and I don’t expect any hassle from you.
I expect a great dinner to be on the table unless
I tell you that I won’t be home for dinner.
I’ll go hunting, fishing, boozing, and card-playing
when I want with my old buddies, and don’t you
give me a hard time about it.
Those are my rules. Any comments?’

His new bride said:
‘No, that’s fine with me. Just understand that there will be sex
here at seven o’clock every night…whether you’re here or not.’

(DARN SHE’S GOOD!)

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Marriage (Part II)

Husband and wife had a bitter quarrel on the day of their 40th wedding anniversary!

The husband yells, ‘When you die, I’m getting you a headstone
that reads, ‘Here Lies My Wife — Cold As Ever’!’

‘Yeah?’ she replies. ‘When you die, I’m getting you a headstone
that reads, ‘Here Lies My Husband — Stiff At Last’!’

(HE ASKED FOR IT!)

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Marriage (Part III)

Husband (a doctor) and his wife are having a fight at the breakfast table.

Husband gets up in a rage and says, ‘And you are no
good in bed either,’ and storms out of the house.

After some time he realizes he was nasty and
decides to make amends and rings her up.

She comes to the phone after many rings, and the irritated husband says,
‘What took you so long to answer to the phone?’

She says, ‘I was in bed.’

‘In bed this early, doing what?’

‘Getting a second opinion!’

(YEP, HE HAD THAT COMING, TOO!)

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Marriage (Part IV)

A man has six children and is very proud of his achievement.

He is so proud of himself, that he starts calling his
wife,’ Mother of Six’ in spite of her objections.

One night, they go to a party.
The man decides that it IS time to go home and
wants to find out if his wife is ready to leave as well.
He shouts at the top of his voice, ‘Shall we go home Mother of Six?’

His wife, irritated by her husband’s lack of discretion,
shouts right back, ‘Any time you’re ready, Father of Four.’

(RIGHT ON, LADY!)

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THE SILENT TREATMENT

A man and his wife were having some problems at home
and were giving each other the silent treatment.

Suddenly the man realized that the next day he would need his wife
to wake him at 5:00 AM for an early morning business flight.

Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (and LOSE), he wrote on a piece
of paper,’Please wake me at 5:00 AM.’ He left it where he knew she would find it.

The next morning the man woke up, only to discover it
was 9:00 AM and he had missed his flight.

Furious, he was about to go to see why his wife hadn’t wakened him when he
noticed a piece of paper by the bed. The paper said, ‘It is 5:00 AM. Wake up.’

Men are not equipped for these kinds of contests.

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God may have created man before woman, but there
is always a rough draft before the masterpiece.
x x x

My ‘husband’ forgot how he proposed, should I be as upset as I am?

OK, first let me say I never thought I would be writing in one of these, so please people be kind, I’m only looking for honest help. I know I’m screwed up I don’t need you to tell me, but I can’t afford therapy!

My ‘Husband’ and I have been together for 6 years now. The reason I am quoting the word ‘husband’ is because we have never actually gotten married – for many reasons which I am going to go into detail about. Though we lacked the piece of paper; up until a year ago I was proud to call him hubby and just figured the actual wedding day would come in due time.

First the stupid reasons we are not already married – which I think was my sub-conscious excuses to hold off on the I-do’s. HIS MOTHER!!! Every time a date was set there was some totally STUPID reason we could not get married on that day; so and so died that day, so and so did this and that on that day; OH AND MY FAVORITE: “We can have ‘daughters’ B-day party at the same time. (His daughter, not mine)! I finally said F* it and the dress and all wedding supplies have been stacked in the closet since.

BUT my hesitance has proved (to me anyway) to be a good thing. During a friendly card game a year ago the ‘marriage’ conversation came up and for some unknown reason I reflected on his STUPID YES STUPID proposal. He was very nervous and ring less and it took him nearly an hour of rambling for me to even figure out where the stupid conversation was going – so finally I asked where he was going with all his rambling; his reply “well I thought we should get married what do you think?”OK I’MA FOOL – I actually found this whole ordeal quite endearing!

So anyway; during this card game I reflected on this ‘special’ moment in my life; and told him how much it had meant to me only to be told “I don’t remember.” HOW IN THE HECK don’t you remember something like this??? It hurt so bad – still does. I feel like such a FOOL. I think it must have been FAKE, a PUT ON, him doing the right thing because I had just moved in and his MOTHER did not approve!

Since then our relationship has been very rocky. Every little thing gets me going and back to this issue and some of the other stupid things he has said and done. About 8 months ago I could no longer stand to wear the engagement ring – WHICH BY THE WAY I PICKED OUT MYSELF! – so I put it back in the box with its mate. This does not seem to bother him in the least.

OK, now this gets better – a month or so ago I found out that he has been looking at porn on the internet (he spends a lot of time away from home so it was not unexpected). This actually did not bother me, due to his job he is gone a lot and I to have resorted to porn for satisfaction at times myself. Most of you ladies out there are probably going to think I’m out of my mind but I was actually quite turned on by this! So (in hopes of improving an already pretty darn good sex life) I asked what kind of porn, what web sites, etc. He was seeming to embarrassed to talk about this even though I told him it aroused me!

So, I finally could no longer stand wondering so I logged onto his computer to check it out. Well I found a few different sites nothing hard core or having to do with minors or just plain weird! THANK GOD! But what I stumbled across next made my head (and heart) spin! He looked up a strip club in another city while he was in that city! So I confronted him about it (because that’s how I am). He claims he did NOT go just wanted to see if it was still in business – yes this implies he has been there before.

More background: His ex-wife was/is a stripper, that’s how he met her. He used to spend a lot of time in strip clubs. Supposedly he put all this behind him before we met and is now a devoted husband and father.

Naturally, I don’t believe him! If he is so ‘devoted’ why would he even CARE if some strip club is still open or not? Even if he is telling the truth and did NOT go; does looking it up somehow imply he would like to go or that he considered it? I have looked up a lot of downright STUPID stuff on the internet but not strip clubs!

My trust is gone, my self esteem in the toilet, I feel very weird just being around him, and thinking about having sex quickly turns into a debate. I have no drive to have sex with him at all right now, I just lay there wondering about all this stuff and I cannot focus on it and enjoying it. I have considered ‘divorce’ but; 1 that like quitting, I don’t quit; 2 we have children; 3 its just plain messy. Who gets what?

God says to forgive; but I keep asking myself HOW to forgive him for so much? I’m certain I have said and done things to scaled him too, but I have asked many times if there are things I need to do different, or things I do that really bother him – he has yet to give me a real answer, he just says no. There is no way that I have never said or done something that was hurtful, or that he did not like, there’s just no way. But I can’t even attempt to make changes without in

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My boyfriend and I have been looking at venues and are thinking about having the wedding in Manhattan. Being our family is from Brooklyn and Staten Island, we figured it will be best to have a combo ceremony & reception at the same place. I was just wondering when the pictures should be taken?
Since it’s in the fall (we are leaning towards November), the natural lighting will be darker in the evening unlike the summer… so I figured that typical out door photos will be out of the question. Has anyone ever experience something like this? Even if you haven’t, any advice is great!