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Your Significant Other / Spouse
Write down some interesting (and awful) anecdotes about family members on that side of the family.
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1/11/2008, 12:23 pm
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HIRAMWEVANS
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Mine is a beautiful Aisian lady that treats me like a King . ( And I treat her like a Queen ) The only job that she has had was taking care of me .
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1/11/2008, 1:12 pm
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My mother-in-law stayed with us for a week after my son was born, when I had to go back to work but the baby-sitter was on vacation. She's awful anyway (nice lady, but we are a complete personality clash, so she really gets on my nerves), and she was cleaning our house one day and found my journal and read it!!! Needless to say, it said some kind of rude things about her, and she was devestated (which I understand, but it was also blown out of proportion because 1) I write stuff down when I'm irritated, then it's off my chest and I forget about it, although obviously I'm not going to go back and say that in the journal, and 2) she has the emotional depth of a 4-year old). Anyway, it's been weird since then.
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My SO and I connected through free trial weeks of a dating site. I think she was on the last day of her trial period and I was on my first. We exchanged quick emails and ICQ links. We chatted for quiet awile then spoke on the phone for awhile then decided to meet. She came with her kids to the church I was attending. Frankly I was shocked at her physical appearance when we met, she didn't look anything like I had imagined. She was heavy and had short hair and was not a beauty on the outside but I decided to not let appearances disqualify her because I had liked her for her thoughts before seeing her for her packaging. I think we were both starved for affection and we enjoyed each other quickly. I had been alone raising my 3 kids for over a year at that point. She proved to be a very capable and confident person. She persued the relationship with determination and went from commuting back and forth from Maine to buying a mobile home in NH and commuting to work in Portland Maine. Our kids became blended like the "Brady Bunch". When my oldest son began flunking in school we considered home schooling him. She went at it with gusto and we attempted home schooling all 6. Not isolation schooling but a very socializing program with classes at the public school and tons of involvement in community groups and sports. Then my ex-wife fought to get the kids back after not offering a penny in support for 4 years. My oldest wanted to live with her and was very vocal with the guardian ad-litem. The woman judge was so impressed with her supposed two years of sobriety that she felt she deserved another chance and awarded the kids to her. Also the court looked very suspiciously at home schooling and our not being married. There went out home schooling and our investment of over 5,00o bucks on curriculum and school supplies. One of our kids tested 3 years ahead of grade level when he went back in. We have been through many ups and downs but have stuck together. She has recenty lost over 60 lbs and it running her own accounting business successfully. I think we may be good for each other.
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my husband and his family have a lot of, shall we say, interesting stories and dynamics.
it's hard for me to understand, because although my extended family (cousins) is big, my nuclear family is really small.
he, on the other hand, has 2 brothers, 3 sisters and tons of nieces and nephews. so there's lots of drama.
my most interesting story is that in the earlier days of my relationship with Richard, my parents were pretty opposed to him. he's a little older than I and had already been married. my mom and I would fight about him for days.
so a friend of mine and I decided we would pray and fast one day, for the whole day, and pray every hour, in an attempt to get closer to God, to listen to His voice and His desire for our lives. my purpose was to figure out what to do about Richard. I loved him even then like I'd known him in another life or something, and I had no idea why. my friends and family assumed that I would be with and marry someone who's "good on paper", like a minister or some high professional, someone who's never been married, someone with a graduate degree. heck, I always figured that's who I'd be with, but try as I did, I could never get over him.
so, we prayed and fasted all day. I believe our moms fasted that day as well, as a sign of solidarity.
the next day, Richard showed up at my apartment with my favorite flowers, and we had one of the best dates ever.
granted, we had some rough patches after that, but from that day, I was convinced he was the one.
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Last edited by pepperspaw, 8/22/2008, 6:06 pm
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