Awwww Shucks,
Congratulations on 10 solid!!!!!!!!!Believe it or not thats an accomplishment in todays world!Anyways have a GREAT day you 2,and dont hurt each other tonite

Thanks RED... I sure to think it's great... I am not sure there is anything else that I have done for 10 years straight except smoke weed but in way it has been the easiest 10 years because I wasn't alone and always knew I can count on him for anything... H3ad truely is such a great guy and I can't imagine my life without him, well I can but then I'd get all depressed, lol... so, I'm not gonna do that!.. lol.. ok, ok.. about time for him to get up and take over this computer anyway... so, unless I wanna go jump on the kids PC I'll have to be online later... but thanks again RED, means a lot...

we will be having some fourplay tonight though..

[I.M. Boggled]

Friendship, mutual respect and positive attitudes have worked out well for us, 15 years and going strong.
Whoa, don't blink, that was a quick 15 years.
We do admit to "lust" being the initial attractant though.

Their are those who say that married men tend to live longer....
yet others say that is not neccessarily true, that it just seems that way.

Originally Posted by I.M. Boggled

Friendship, mutual respect and positive attitudes have worked out well for us.

that has worked for us too. 22 years and still going strong..

[resinryder]

Happy anniversary Grat3ful's. Hope you guys have a wonderful weekend and many, many more happy years together. 16+ here with me and mine. Time flies when you're having fun. It just seems to work when you respect each other, and don't sweat the little stuff.

Thanks to you all, now here's the real secret :wink:

There were a couple of old guys talking at the bar. One of the men had been married for 66 years.
"Amazing. 66 years!" said his friend. "What's the secret to such a long, happy marriage?"
"Well," he replied, "It's like this. The man makes all the big decisions... and the woman just makes the little decisions."
"Really?" his friend responded. "Does that really work?"
"Oh, yes," he said proudly. "66 years, and so far, not one big decision!"

Early in our history, marriage simply didn't exist, in fact it is a relatively recent development (by "recent" I mean after the dinosaurs died and before the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan show). Marriage was originally conceived (no pun intended) as a way to signal the presence of a special bond between two people. At that time, marriage had no special significance itself, it was merely a social signaling device, and to some extent it also represented a contract with mutual obligations. In those times marriage stood as a mere symbol for something of actual substance -- a relationship between people that would have existed whether or not the symbol of marriage was also present.

Today marriage (the symbol) has become a thing in its own right, in some cases (and in some minds) replacing the thing it once only represented. It has become a multi-billion dollar industry, and only the most perceptive individuals remember that it was supposed to have symbolized something more important, more fundamental than itself -- a particular kind of human relationship. This reversal of symbol and thing has become so profound that one commonly hears a remark like "Marriage is what I really want!" as though marriage were anything more than a weather forecast or a road sign.

Naturally enough, this confusion of empty symbols and actual things has led to a rather well-documented disenchantment with that institution, even though the disenchantment is based on an error in perception. The reality of a human relationship between people (usually) of opposite sexes is quite different from the packaged perception called up by the word "marriage," to the degree that people often forget that they will have to build the thing (a human relationship) after achieving the symbol for the thing (marriage).

Then, after people waste precious time seeking "marriage" and discovering that marriage is nothing by itself, they complain they have been failed by "marriage." This is advanced puppetry, and no one seems willing to follow the strings.

But marriage itself (as it is practiced in modern times), by virtue of having taken on a life of its own, is in its turn a symbol for something more basic: We live in a time where symbols for things have largely replaced the things themselves, and this tendency exists in direct proportion to people's inability to distinguish between symbols and things.



--Written by Paul Lutus

[Storm Crow]

My hubby and I have been married 37 years. Got married at a hippie Love In at La Jolla Cove in California. Beautiful place and we had about 5,000 people at our wedding. I had about 2 ounces in joints and small baggies of grass stuffed in my purse by the people at my wedding. We have love, intellect and friendship to hold us together. Smoking one (or two) together whenever we had an arguement didn't hurt either. Awful hard to argue when you're holding in a hit.

Well Ms.Storm, I guess you do take the cake!! How wonderful that you are still in love today.aaawww..congrat s!
and welcome to IC... 'tis always lovely and brings a smile to my face when another lady joins the lot of us...

[wikidcalibudgrl]

Right on Storm Crow! i'm not quite that far along yet, but well on on way i'd say,, 10 yr's Feb 3. An i think the key is first being Good Friends, & having good love. Then, you can make a great life, and wonderful memories :smile: tho, lust and makin good love have there place in there too