Broken love

Broken love
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24yearsandcounting

Registrant
I want to change subjects here for a moment.
I don't want to dwell on incest, or child molestation or anything like that.
I want to take a minute and have everyone think about some examples they have seen of healthy relationships between adult men and women. In the media, in person, in history, -whatever.
Lets kick back for a while, and spend time considering non-toxic situations and relationships.
Focusing on the good, and minimizing the bad.
What would Your ideal love life, or Romance entail? Doesn't have to be anything fancy, how about, what Relationship do You desire to Have with a woman. -Do exclude what you Don't want as much as possible if it means drawing from bad experiences. -Just focus on the good, healthy relationships.
 
okay I'll start. -Fraid I don't know many story book style romances that worked. I saw a couple on TV briefly, refute the claim that career women are not good companions. -I wish I knew them better, -they seemed to be happier because they were both pulling their weight. I look forward to being at that point with a woman.
I spend a lot of time on my feet at work. -Everyone is walking past everyone else, someone is going to bump into someone eventually. I stuck my knee out a little too far out, and brushed knees with this 5'7" something blonde thing about 20something years old. Just an accident, but I haven't even made out w/ a girl in so long, I appreciated the contact. That was nothing, I've seen girls grab ass, and eachothers boobs just horsing around. -I'd never do anything like that.

I guess I want a family. My aunt/uncle are retired, and my cusins still live with them. -The son lives w/ his wife, and his 2 kids. They are family so much so, I forget that is because they are married, that, that is the case. When I think of marriages that doesn't come to mind because they are such a close team. Minus the drinking occasionally, and spats (once in a great while), I would call their marriage successful. I've seen my little cusins grow up in that house. The older one has been working for a year now at some job, and she already has a scholarship for college when she gets out of highschool IF she maintains good grades through JR high, to HS. -That is pretty much the whole story w/ them. They aren't perfect, but they have all the important things in place.
I would have liked to see what John Kennedy, and Princess Dianna would have done if they got hitched.
 
Kennedy would have probably screwed around on her.

There are plenty of good role models for healthy couples, but the media isn't really the place to find them. The news and TV are too focused on the "car accident stories" and only report on what sells, I.E. celebrity divorces, etc. Personally I think the best role models are those couples who have been together for 50+ years. You watch them together and it's like a dance. They know one-another so well that their interactions seem subconscious.

My ideal is what I have; a woman who I can respect; who is bright, articulate, loving, outgoing and fun.

How did I get her? I wish I could tell you, but I honestly don't know. We really just found each other.
 
thats not fair to JFK. I hadn't considered him to be a womanizer like that, I don't know either very well actually. Dianna and Charles both cheated on eachother (at least what the rumors, and some cases the facts say). I heard J&D did have an affair once, & it would have been cool if they made a whole relationship out of it.
What about Paul Newman and his wife? They are still together.
Good for you & your gf.
 
Paul Newman, and Goldie Hawn/Kurt Russell are still together, there are many others.
 
My wife's grandparents were married for 68 years (!) before her grandmother passed away 2 years ago. Her grandfather is 90 now, and has pretty much lost all will to live since she is gone now. They were such a perfect couple for each other.
 
I guess I would have to nominate my parents. They are not perfect, but who is? They have always treated each other with love and respect and have been honest with each other when they have had problems.

They have also been incredibly loving people in general. Many of my college friends were still calling them or stopping by for coffee or a meal years after I had gone to the Middle East for my MA. Even today, in their 80s, they are still sponsoring and working with young people who are in trouble or struggling. They have 3 grown-up kids (my sisters and I), four grandchildren, a great-grandchild, and about 20 "adopted" kids, some going back to the 80s so now in their 40s. :)

Much love,
Larry
 
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