The financial constraints were overcome and a few months ago, between us, we booked SEVEN flights ahead (for February, March, April, May, June, July and August 2009).
especially if it's from a woman who hasn't bothered to read my profile and observe I'm not available and doing the 'Eve' thingy on me and showing me her 'fruit'!
Being serious for a moment...... I have had female friends who have been stalked.
They have answered the tepephone to these stalking a**hole........... very hard to do, I admit, but if you ignore somebody long enough they lose interest and move on to another victim.
You are SO RIGHT - respond and you give the person what they want and they just carry on...ignore them and eventually they piss off and leave you alone!
For those who really desperately want to meet Mr or Mrs Right they need to be quiet and calm and make friends first.......... the spark of romance is always there and waiting but it needs to be quietly set alight rather than started off with a blowtorch!
(My apologies to those who like a good blowtorch romance)
I don't want some female to see me unshaved and unwashed hobbling around in my scruffy old marks & Sparks blue dressing gown ansd scratching myself vigorously............. nah, webcams are just so UNROMANTIC!
I got attacked for coming over as a cry baby for looking after my parents and it seems I am also in the wrong if I come over as 'I'm ok Jack or Jill - 'f' you!'
NEITHER is the truth!
I'm just a human being with many of the problems (and also joys) that other human beings have!
Apparently I've been bragging about my good fortune; I didn't mean to brag.
I have what I consider a huge responsibility - my dad had looked after my mother (and vice versa) for 63.5 years when he died last year. My mother can't look after herself now as she has been paralysed for going on 5.5 years.
I felt totally deflated last year after my father had paid for me to go on a wonderful cruise in September with my fiancee AFTER I'd abandoned both my parents in June (I couldn't cope seeing my dad getting weaker every day and after 2.5 years I decided I had to get back my own life).
My dad died in August. We went on the cruise in September. When I returned I saw the investments my dad had carefully built up over 35 years of retirement going down the proverbial plughole.
I knew hardly anything about investments. I know hardly anything about investments now, but a lot more than I did six plus months ago!
I'm delighted to have not only made back a huge amount of the investment losses on paper but also managed to increase the income that my mother needs to pay for carers etc.
I apologise if I came over as being big-headed; I am just very happy that my mother, at least for the time being, can stay in the villa she loves instead of being put away in a home where, under normal circumstances, she'd be!
So - apologies to those I gave the impression that I am big-headed...... I am really quite an insecure person and have been working as hard as I can to at least gain some financial security.
The fact that I have found somebody special in my life is worth far more to me than any fortune, but obviously I want the best for her as well.......... if she's doing 'ok' why should I drag her down to my level, if I decide to give up on life and become a 'no-hoper'?
It's always better to jump ship than to be made to walk the plank blindfolded and with your hands tied behind your back and covered in blood so the sharks come for you real fast!
rusty_knight Forum Posts (6,840)
RE: Have you ever been to a CS get together?
I'm getting married too, but trust me to find myself a young 'un........ we can't get married until she retires in 2017!