I believed in long engagements too. I think we were engaged (but not living in sin) for 13 years. And dated for a few years before that.
There's no calibrating them, you gotta know that by now.
In Memory of Paul "Dietrich" Stines.
Dad: Say something nice to your cousin Shirley
Dietrich: For a fat girl you sure don't sweat much.
Cue sound of Head slap.
RIP Muggsy & TMan
"If you are a warrior legally authorized to carry a weapon and you step outside without that weapon, then you become a sheep, pretending that JOCKO will not come today."
I met my future wife at a friend's wedding (she was maid of honor, I was best man) on December 30th, 1966. Proposed two weeks later and married that June.
Our friends said it wouldn't work out, but they are all now divorced & remarried - while we are headed for our 51st.
Best Quick Pick I ever made.
Prior to meeting her, I was a complete binge-drinking, heckraising, skirt chaser/whoremonger. She didn't take long to recalibrate all that into a steady working & responsible domesticated husband & father. Still took an occasional drink or two, but then cut that out for 30+ years. just a *** now & then these days for old memories' sake.
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition
-Rudyard Kipling
I met my future wife when she was my younger brothers girlfriend. She wouldn't put up with his ceeerap at all. After a very strange a twisting trip thru our young lives, she agreed to put up with mine.
In two weeks we celebrate 35 years of marriage, not always an easy ride, but I wouldn't have traded it for all the money in the world.
I'll always be lucky that she'd have me.
peace
I was once asked if I was "a paranoid for carrying my Kahr".
"Nope" I said, "just prepared".
" prepared for what" he asked?
"more stuff than you are"
God Bless our Troups!
^^^^ congrats on the anniv!
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