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Exhausted... but happy!

You know Rusty, given what you have been through, your lady came at the right time and this is wonderful.

I am smiling at your mother's comment. I think it is fabulous.

Good to see you Robert.

You deserve that. But I think I read only half the story - she is most certainly a very lucky woman too

Istanbul is a bit of a cultural shock in itself, it is built on one

I have no idea what she sees in me!

I just hope it lasts and lasts and lasts and lasts........... I've known such love in 53 years! ~sniff~

We're BOTH very independent and like the idea of seeing each other every few weeks instead of being together all the time and treading on each other's toes and getting in the way of other things we have to do in life....... I believe she works very hard at her job, while I need a great deal of time to myself so I can 'think' without constantly having to consider another person 24/7.

I like/need to have my own space sometimes - most people probably do, right?

When you are away from somebody you love for a couple of weeks you miss them terribly - then when you meet again it's wonderful, and you really enjoy each other's company - even if it's just cleaning out dead things from the fridge, or cooking for each other or going for a quick swim while the carers come and look after my mother for 1.5 hours.

I thought I could only cope looking after my mother 21/24/7 for a month at a time, but my partner will fly out after three weeks for a long weekend and then I can manage for a couple more couple weeks after she's gone, then I'll fly out to see her for nine days (a week plus TWO weekends - woohoo!) then she'll fly out to me three weeks later -

so a kinda 10 week cycle, and no need for any exotic holiday next year as I live on a lovely island and she has the most beautiful cottage in the woods in a fairy tale setting in deepest Deutscheland....

typo - I've NOT known such love in all my 53 years!

Only starting off a holiday in Istanbul........ going to a few other places in Turkey and Egypt and Greece; it's a cruise my dad paid as a wonderful gift to me about a month before he died........and he so wanted my partner and myself to go on it so I'll go and honour his memory and drink a bottle of wine or two in his memory and say:

'Cheers dad - thank you very much!'

i have always found people to be polite and friendly in the uk forums,more so than the eu,i speak as an english women who has parents living in malta,mind you i have noticed a few stirrers in both,lol

I am an English woman, but I never found the EU forums other than pleasant.

I have been in the UK forums rarely, but it all seems calm there, as to me it does here.