... or maybe not, Pete
. "When will they ever learn... ohhhhhh, when will theyyyyyyy ever learn... "
And, Phil, I typed my entire response to you yesterday afternoon and when I clicked Submit, it all disappeared... I wasn't logged in, yet had been able to reach a Reply screen. Go figger
. I just abandoned it for the day and went to the Royal Manor Vineyard to buy a bottle and listen to some live music, instead. I toasted you and your dishpan hands, of course... the least I could do given the distance.
Anyway, it really doesn't seem that the ultra traditional scenario you describe is what got that couple to 83. The one you describe in your own life, however, does lend some understanding as to why you seemed so keen to leave Jean abandoned to those sweat shops a while back.
Now, in your response to denise's comment:
denise knowles wrote:Now come on yorkshire lad, everyone know's it is alway's the WOMAN who is giver, and the MAN who dose all the taking. You may not realise, but you could have just started WORLD WAR THREE with that remark.lol:
The approach you've described below may be working against you:
Sorry Denise
You are quite right because when my lovely Jean read the post she GAVE me a big whack across the back of my head and I sat there and TOOK it !
YL
The next time you're confronted with a behavioural choice, you might want to try standing up and taking it. That successful couple has been around sufficiently long to have been the originators of the well-known phrase:
"Stand up and take it like a man."
And while we're speaking of all this, I could never really buy your bags filled with gold explanation for the sweet shape of your legs. From what I've read here, there seems to be a lack of corroborating evidence. The cache of gold story does hold more appeal to a man, though, I must agree, but I'm more inclined to weigh in on their being your body's adaptation to maybe, at one time, having tried my suggestion and, as the situations continued to arise, fatigue set in and you tried to get by with half-standing; and, as Jean smacked you back into sitting to make her point that these were but half-hearted efforts and unacceptable, you finally just gave up and remained sitting.
You can't just half-step on this stuff, Phil. Who knows how many additional marital years you could secure by changing this one seemingly minor choice. Stand up and take it like a man, Phil, and please let me know how it goes.
At your wedded bliss service,
Lizzy
"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken."
~ Oscar Wilde
... "the significance"?
