Paddy's quote of the week. The predictabie outcome of marriage perhaps. ( Archived) (36)

Or even two, finger problems today my friend?.....

I would say ...this quote has itself outlived ..

and then I could add that marriage in itself is an illusion - for how long it stays that way is up to the participants

Just knew, you would be in on this....

Thank you,
yet still most of us with deny this fact
when we meet our next prospective Ex-wife

for a minute I thought it read parents not participants

I married expecting both myself and my ex-wife to both grow togeather and change. Unfortunately, (and I found this out after the divorce) my ex. not only married me with the expectation that I would change, but she expected me to change because of her manipulations and because she married me under false pretenses. I had moved to Missouri in order to get a job, and that's where I met her. When we began talking about marriage I made it clear to her that I was going to move back to Arkansas as soon as I could find a job there (I'm an Arkansas native), and she agreed to do so. Once I found a job there, however, the fire began to fly! She fought, nonstop, with me for over a year after I found a job in Arkansas. Finally, after she did something that was completely unforgivable, I decided that there was no alternative but to end the marriage (I'll not go into what she did in public). Regardless, after the divorce, I found out from a friend of mine, that had married her best friend, that she had told her best friend (my friend's wife) that she had never intended to honor our agreement to move to Arkansas. She had intended to find something wrong with any place that looked like I might have a chance of getting hired at, and she figured by that, that she could keep me right there were I was in Missouri. Fortunately, I found a job in Arkansas, and accepted the position before she could object to it. The end result of course was our divorce, but had my friend told me that before hand I probably would have sought an annulment, because she married me under false pretenses. Regardless, as you can imagine (I'm sure), once I knew that she had married me under false pretenses, I was (although sad especially due to the circumstances sad.......I guess you could call it a bittersweet sad), glad to end the marriage; because it was not an honest marriange, and nothing good could be built upon a marriage built upon deceit & manipulation. Regardless, I guess I should have expected that baised upon her description of her mother & father's marriage (what she told me about their marriage was a nightmare on steroids), I should have expected what I got, but I was young and naive. Regardless, I'm alone at 46 years old, and still looking for a good woman, which seems to be the unobtainable goal.

"I'm alone at 46 years old, and still looking for a good woman."

Rebel, I think you're in the right place mate, good luck..

Well Bud,
I hope so. I can't say that I'm not disgusted and discouraged at this point, but I do still hold out hope. I reckon I'm one of those folks that won't completely give up 'till there ain't no hope (hell, I'm a Jeffersonian purist, politically speaking that is). I've always wanted a family of my own, and come hell or high water I won't give up on that until there ain't no hope of it, which given the fact that I'm a man will be a long damn time thankfully. ;-) BTW, you're saluting with a couple of beers..............I hope ther're Guinness Extra Stouts! I love them ;-)

We feel that our cause is just and holy; we protest solemnly in the face of mankind that we desire peace at any sacrifice save that of honour and independence; we ask no conquest, no aggrandizement, no concession of any kind from the States with which we were lately confederated.

All we ask is to be let alone; that those who never held power over us shall not now attempt our subjugation by arms.....