After many years here, I've come to realize that scammers do not take time to participate in the forums and goof around with others. They tend to contact women directly and try to get them to chat away from here as soon as possible.
I will recommend that you find some topic of interest in the forums. It is, after all, like meeting in public. If there's a particular lady you like, maybe follow the topics she likes if it's something you two have in common, After a while, she'll notice you and maybe, if you are nice and play right, she'll let you in.
"Tre metri sopra il cielo" ("THREE METERS ABOVE HEAVEN") by Italian author Federico Moccia.
I'm reading it in Spanish, though. The movie, from Spain, is really cute.
I have a teenage daughter, I still need to monitor her reading and movie choices
We live in a very small country, as "first world" as we try to see it. The circumstances that kids encounter here are not necessarily the same circumstances kids find in Europe or USA.
I suffer from severe allergies that sometimes trigger asthma attacks, so I can't dust a lot... and at the same time can't be around dust. So it is a vicious cycle.
I had a live-in housekeeper/nanny when the kids where growing up. Now, she only comes twice a week, as my kids are grown now, my youngest is 14... Panama is still one of those places you can get house-help for less than $400 a month. She does the laundry and cleans thoroughly, and cooks when she comes. I cook the rest of the week or have take-out, and we pick-up after ourselves and do our own dishes and stuff. Each one has the responsibility of keeping their room orderly or risk not having nana clean it up next time she comes...
In addition, what happend to children born out of wedlock? In Panama, it is the child's right to have the father's surname. If said father wants nothing to do with the child, if the mother declares that he is the father he will be legally charged with giving the child his surname and child support. If later on it is found through DNA testing that said child is not his, then he can opt to witdraw his name and is no longer obligated to support the child. The child then receives the mother's paternal surname. In most Latinamerican countries, people is custom to use both paternal and maternal surnames, in that order.
It is no longer an option if the mother doesn't want to name the father of the child, she is legally obligated to disclose it. It is the "Responsible Parenthood" Law, looking to allow every child to have a name and the means to live and study. And to keep deadbeat fathers from facing their responsibilities...
It is a matter of choice. In Panama, as well as in many countries in Latinamerica, when a woman marries, the husband name is added to her name after the word "de" which means "of" in a sense of belonging to, or being the property of. For example, Maria Perez marries Juan Gonzalez. She becomes María Perez de Gonzalez, effectively indicating that she is the "property of" this particular Sr. Gonzalez. Although some women decide to keep their maiden name, the usual practice is to drop the maiden name after the marriage, i.e. Maria de Gonzalez. Once the couple divorces or if she becomes a widow, her maiden name is restored, as her husband's name is not really hers, is a loaner. However, at least in Panama, where I'm from and where I live, by law a married woman can opt to keep her maiden name, even after marriage, becoming Mrs. Maria Perez (no longer Miss Maria Perez). This has been done largely because professional titles are issued under the birth name of the person (unless it was legally changed, but not by marriage, divorce or demise). So, a woman with a professional title, will keep her maiden name in her professional life, although she is entitled to use her husband's name, i.e.: Dr. Maria Perez. Not Dr. Maria Perez de Gonzalez.
I think it is nice to have the choice to keep being your father's daughter.
Hello everyone! I'm not new here, by any means, I've just been absent but I drop by every now and then...I love to say hello to old friends and I try to stay in touch...I see a lot are still around, but I don't see my friend Jerry...Last thing I knew he was in Afghanistan.
Anyone has heard from him? We use to email on a personal basis, but I haven't heard from him in quite a while.
hahaha! Here's my two cents: He found someone, he promised he was going to stay away from the site, of course he is not planning on doing such a thing, and he's concerned that his new found better-half will find out he's still here and mingling...
I'm not convinced that it is the end of times...just the end of an era, of things as we know them. In the words of Einstein "How do you expect things to change if you keep doing the same things?" I expect a great change in my life as I am changing old habits into new ways of life.
I hope, for 2012, that we all have learned from the lessons life has taught us, and move into more positive, caring, loving actions, for ourselves and those around us.
How everyone loves to have moonlit walks on the beach (regardless of the mosquitoes!) and to cuddle on a couch, when really they want to be on the front lawn guzzing down beers with their mates.
And a good bottle of wine!
How average really means "fat"
How they do believe that the 40's are the new 30's and that the 50's is the new 40's.
That being 50 but feeling and acting as a 20 y/o, is appealing...forgetting how ridiculous a 50 y/o looks when acting as 20 y/o...
Well, yes he did. We were dating, we were involved. And he just upped and left without a word. I wasn't wrong in marrying the girl (or yes he was, because he was not in love) he was wrong for not ending it with me, for whatever the reasons. It was his fault my feelings were hurt and my heart broken, it was no one else's fault. And he shouldn't feel compassion or pitty me, he needs to own up to his own actions. We did have plans for the future, so I was mislead.
I can see by your response that you think it is correct to date someone and then one day not call her again, because it isn't your fault if she falls in love with you, someone who might probably treated her right, with love and cared for her (though I take leave to believe that you'll care for someone besides yourself). that wouldn't be cruel or wrong, according to you... Your story must be quite a story...your heart must have ended in a million shards...
You got it all wrong. And you never even took the time to read the whole thread, asuming that I had been on all fours with him. I was still a virgin when we dated, hun...
He is still a man and I am a woman, though not stupid nor gullible. don't assume...You'll make and @$$ of u and me...
RE: What's Your Impression of the Person Above you?
My shrink said is not paranoia...it is your garden variety of OCD