What makes you take the plunge? (194)
Sorry Laura....... I thought he'd been waving it around..... he normally does as he loves to make it 'rattle'! 
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LaVerdad: As long as the venom is not paralytic, because you would be frolicking with corpse!
My son's bite is far less painful than his bark.
My bite is far more painful than my bark.
There is a subtle difference.
Oh, the foolishness of youth - and how it is wasted on them!
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LaVerdad: As long as the venom is not paralytic, because you would be frolicking with corpse!
that's wicked!
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*typo...
Laura25: How much risk you are willing to take, Pat?
And on how much risk you are comfortable with?
And
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None of us should be scared to take the plunge. We should be leaving the past in the past and enjoy the new unknown future. However we got to where we are should be part of our personality and building us into a person someone else would love to know and be with. I am totally comfortable with making a decision to be with someone when she arrives. Wait I hear a knock at the door; maybe it is her! lol
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Big_John: None of us should be scared to take the plunge. We should be leaving the past in the past and enjoy the new unknown future. However we got to where we are should be part of our personality and building us into a person someone else would love to know and be with. I am totally comfortable with making a decision to be with someone when she arrives. Wait I hear a knock at the door; maybe it is her! lol
Big_John: None of us should be scared to take the plunge. We should be leaving the past in the past and enjoy the new unknown future. ... lol
I had to re-read it, 'coz at first I read it as "We should be leaving the past in the past and enjoy the new unknown failure." ------ This thread is Archived ------
Laura25: How much risk you are willing to take, Pat?
And on how much risk you are comfortable with?
And on how much risk you are comfortable with?
I have "risked" something every day of my life.
"RISK", is not about being comfortable.
"RISK", is about living life on life's terms..
Personally, I have risked it all and lost, more than once. Would I do it it again? You bet I would..
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Laura25: I had to re-read it, 'coz at first I read it as "We should be leaving the past in the past and enjoy the new unknown failure."
Hey it could be an unknown failure in our future, but I would like to believe the next one will be the best and last one.
Maybe this is just where your mind was at.....
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Big_John: Hey it could be an unknown failure in our future, but I would like to believe the next one will be the best and last one.
Maybe this is just where your mind was at.....
Maybe this is just where your mind was at.....
You might be right...
Isn't it grand that women are capable of changing their mind at the last minute?
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I took the plunge today. The water was warm and welcoming and I swam for about a mile.
Lovely.
Lovely.
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Not going to happen here. Even though it's a lovely and sunny day today, 57°F, the kind of plunge you are talking about surely would feel very uncomfortable.
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Laura25: Not going to happen here.
Even though it's a lovely and sunny day today, 57°F, the kind of plunge you are talking about surely would feel very uncomfortable.
Even though it's a lovely and sunny day today, 57°F, the kind of plunge you are talking about surely would feel very uncomfortable.
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goodfriend: Hey Laura,if we could sign a contract saying that he would take care of the ironing, i would march him up the aisle pronto..
Hey Goodfriend! I cooked and did the ironing half the time also preformed my "Duty" in marriage and still got divorced!
Why did that not do it?
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Laura25: Not going to happen here.
Even though it's a lovely and sunny day today, 57°F, the kind of plunge you are talking about surely would feel very uncomfortable.
Even though it's a lovely and sunny day today, 57°F, the kind of plunge you are talking about surely would feel very uncomfortable.
POOR BABY...........
Not "WILLING" to get out of her comfort zone..
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LaVerdad: As long as the venom is not paralytic, because you would be frolicking with corpse!
not a corpse.... just someone who wont put up a fight !!!!! until the venom wears out anyways....
....but hey ... i only need 3 seconds anyways !!!
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RobertC2: My son's bite is far less painful than his bark.
My bite is far more painful than my bark.
There is a subtle difference.
Oh, the foolishness of youth - and how it is wasted on them!
My bite is far more painful than my bark.
There is a subtle difference.
Oh, the foolishness of youth - and how it is wasted on them!
that's only cos they gave you bionic dentures !!!
otherwise you'd only be able to gum them to death !!!!
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Jan1305: I took the plunge today. The water was warm and welcoming and I swam for about a mile.
Lovely.
Lovely.
I'm with you there jan..tho still a bit scared after the octopus incident!
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solsticemoon: I'm with you there jan..tho still a bit scared after the octopus incident!
HJFinAZ: POOR BABY...........
Not "WILLING" to get out of her comfort zone..
Not "WILLING" to get out of her comfort zone..
pfft... octopus
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jlb684: No, I guess there's no middle ground, Laura. But if I'm not done with the serious soul-searching part, then I think the answer is that I'm not ready to marry again. Soul-searching, to me, doesn't mean that I will have absolutely no worries or uncertainties about what lies ahead, for there are always uncertainties...nothing is guaranteed. Soul-searching (again, to me) means that I have given serious consideration to the proposal and, after I have digested everything fully, I am left with a feeling of calm and of a rather confident joy.
But, then again, it's easy for me to say this, but I haven't been in this situation anytime recently. I just think that I'd have to feel that there was far more to be gained in keeping him in my life, in committing my life to him, than would be gained if I let him go. Too simple an answer, but that's pretty much how I would describe it.
And if he thought that my hesitancy was indicative of an unwillingness to commit to him, I would hope to be able to reassure him that this is not the case....not an unwillingness. I'd hope to be able to convey that, quite the contrary, I want him to know beyond a doubt that when/if I say "yes", I mean it with all my heart and I won't second-guess my decision...and that it's a decision that I obviously do not take lightly. Hopefully, he would understand...at least for awhile. After a great deal of time, however, it's likely that I AM being resistant and so I probably don't feel like I can make that commitment. In that case, I'm just being selfish...I don't want to let him go because I don't want to be alone. But that's not fair to him.
But, then again, it's easy for me to say this, but I haven't been in this situation anytime recently. I just think that I'd have to feel that there was far more to be gained in keeping him in my life, in committing my life to him, than would be gained if I let him go. Too simple an answer, but that's pretty much how I would describe it.
And if he thought that my hesitancy was indicative of an unwillingness to commit to him, I would hope to be able to reassure him that this is not the case....not an unwillingness. I'd hope to be able to convey that, quite the contrary, I want him to know beyond a doubt that when/if I say "yes", I mean it with all my heart and I won't second-guess my decision...and that it's a decision that I obviously do not take lightly. Hopefully, he would understand...at least for awhile. After a great deal of time, however, it's likely that I AM being resistant and so I probably don't feel like I can make that commitment. In that case, I'm just being selfish...I don't want to let him go because I don't want to be alone. But that's not fair to him.
Well, Athens, my sense is that if marriage is proposed, and the partner receiving the proposal either is hesitant or declines (if even for the moment, with the promise of future reconsideration), then the question HAS been answered. I do see it as an "either-or" proposition. I can't imagine asking that question, and ever considering re-asking it if I were refused.
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but it was YOUR ear that the elk was licking..... that's why you cant hear out of your left side... remember????? the elk stuck its tongue up in there so deep that it tore your ear drum....
i should write all this down for ya so you dont keep forgetting !!!!
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