| I read and hear much about people saving enough for retirement. This has me wondering, are there a lot of jobs and careers that have no retirement benefits, or at least not adequate benefits? I have retirement through my work that is a lifetime benefit, so I'm not too worried about saving for retirement, because I'm going to continue getting a check just like I was working. I do save money, but it's just for whatever; more of an emergency fund I suppose. I'm just asking because some people look at you like your hair is on fire if you say your not too worried about saving for retirement. | |||
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Saving for retirement
Dominant Media Editing
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Is it inappropriate to?
| My current marriage counselor is female. My personal belief is that it is hard to find a good counselor. I think many of them are messed up people that got into that field of work trying to find life's answers for themselves. That being said I think my counselor is a man hating feminazi. When ever I bring up a point of something that rubs me the wrong or seams abnormal that I feel is part of the problem in my relationship she jumps to my wife's defense. Asks me why I would even bring such a thing up knowing it would be painful for my wife. For instance I am in a very long sexless marriage. Yeah it sucks to be me. (I want it she does not) My wife has very poor self esteem, self mutilates etc. When I start talking about this my counselor gets visually upset. Suggests B.S. and that I am the cause, that I should do eyz more, like going out, more work., buy her stuff. Sorry but love should be given freely, not earned or used as punishment. Anybody in my situation knows the endless excuses your spouse will give. For you women out there in the same situation I am sorry that you have idiot husbands that wont even get checked for low T. Anyways as I am basically telling her this stuff does not work we need to get to the real issues she will all of a sudden she will do this... The counselor will ask me "Do you know what I think? " I will ask her what? What comes next is what I can only describe as an insult on me. She says "I think you would not know what to do with a confident woman." That would be a shock to me I admit. Coming home to a woman that jumps me when I get home, has a job that pays well, is not always paranoid about her weight or actually uses the gym membership card that she has to do something about it... I could go on. About three times our consoler has done this to me, asked me "You know what I think?" Each time she gave a answer that does not elevate the conversation. I only see them as an insult to rupture my own self esteem that is already very low. It is hard to have self esteem when the most physical contact you get is when you get a haircut or something. Anyways although she tell me that I am overpowering, not the truth at all, just had enough, I have been very reserved. Is it appropriate to send her a Email to call her out? I think she is a hack. I have a lot to say that I have not because every time I say something she tries to knock me down. | |||
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A few guys smirking at dancing in nightclub
| I was at a club a few days ago and dancing quite energetically (I'm a girl by the way) but I have no experience/taken any "lessons" in dance and I didn't think it would matter as it's not a dance performance - just people having fun! However, when I was dancing (energetically), grinding (gently-ish so not in a weird way), a few guys were looking at me with smirks on their faces and whispered one or two words at each other whilst looking at me. Then one of them sorta walked up close to me and said "hi" (still with the smirky-smile).. What does that mean? Are they laughing at the way I dance? Or maybe my looks but I doubt it's that as I may not be a model but not horrifying looking either I think.. What would you suppose this to mean/has anyone had similar experiences? | |||
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[LONG STORY] Criminal boyfriend. I could get charged. Help?
| So basically I've been seeing this guy for a couple of months. I knew what he was before I got with him so I don't really know what I expected to be honest. I have weak resolve. Basically, he had been brewing a little vendetta against some other lad from our town who wronged him a couple of years ago. The lad, let's call him John, set upon my boyfriend with 15 lads. They rode up to him as he was walking home from a GOALS 5-a-side centre, all on BMXs and dressed in Stone Island and North Face, and basically, hit him twice in the face. This was said to be some kind of retaliation for something that happened between one of their girlfriends and my boyfriend. They were quite naive and my boyfriend didn't have much of a reputation back then, and these lads didn't know who he was connected to. But whatever. My boyfriend had his revenge on 6-7 of the lads in question. When they attacked him, they never exactly kept their mouths shut about it, and soon their names were being bandied around town. People called them the wanna-be Green Street Elite because of their boorish behaviour and chosen attire. The man who avenged my BF is his uncle. It's rumoured that a rather gruesome injury that one of the GSE were carrying around for a while was his work. Basically, it's said that Uncle flayed the skin from the index finger of one of the lads who tried to bluff and threaten his way out of trouble because he was cornered. My boyfriend did have some, shall we say, normal people in his life. One of his best friends was a rather socially awkward lad who is obsessed with computers, hacking, graphics and such like. Let's call him Ted. My boyfriend got talking to him, befriended him and they ended up getting drunk and high one night in Ted's flat. They spent the next couple of days there on Ted's laptop, attempting to coax the remaining 7-8 GSE members into downloading malicious files. It eventually worked, and all of their computers were connected to Ted's via Remote Administration Tool (RAT). Basically, this meant he could control all of their laptops with admin privileges, from his own laptop, and not have the faintest idea he was doing it. My boyfriend had Ted upload an MP3 file to all of them, with a rather disturbing and threatening voice recording with the pitch of my boyfriend's voice tampered with. He sounded like one of those serial killers who phones people in the movies, I swear. After he was fairly certain the messages had been heard, and when Ted had traced their IPs and got their addresses, he had Ted delete the sys32 directory of each laptop, pretty much wiping them clean. Several weeks later, at 3am, Ted and BF leave Ted's apartment and drive around to each of the remaining GSE member's houses in Ted's Vauxhall Nova. My boyfriend, the ****ing idiot that he is, has a rapid fire paintball gun that looks like a real MP5. Hundreds of red paint-balls later, there are around 10 houses in our town that have received a free exterior paintjob, and a **** load of people complaining about being awoken in the middle of the night to a blip-blip-blip sound and the racket of an old banger driving away at warp speed. They burned the car afterwards. My boyfriend reimbursed the £30 it was worth I was brought into this a couple of weeks ago. After countless arguments with my boyfriend during which I slapped his face red-raw, had much anger and break-up/make-up sex, I was finally found out and dragged into it. I don't know why but our relationship, which was once nothing more than a wee ember, became a blazing white-hot fire. I spent around two weeks with him and we never left each other's side. I wouldn't say we were "in love", but there was not a second that I didn't want jump the lads bones, to be honest. I brought my A-game, and he was putty in my perfectly manicured hands, but I'm still a ****ing idiot. We must have been seen. It was never certain that the GSE members were all accounted for, and the most cunning of them had obviously taken it upon themselves to get revenge. Through me. They left me threatening inboxes using fake Facebook accounts, they've let down the tyres on my car as it was parked on the drive on numerous occasions, and I received one voicemail message from them. The message was so horrible it nearly scared me into paralysis. I didn't dare go to my boyfriend about it because I was ****ing sick of the stupid things he did when he was angry, and I was just sick of the whole thing. On the other hand, I was scared as hell and didn't know what to do. I just didn't ****ing feel safe. It's not my fault what happened.... I managed to coax some information from my boyfriend about this Uncle of his. It turns out he spends most of his days in a working man's club. A venue that is still stuck in a past age. I went there the following day to see this mysterious Uncle and ask him for help. I ended up having to flirt my way past the doorman, and then damsel-in-distress my way into the snooker parlour. Charmingly the door had "No Women Allowed" written onto the only pane of glass that was remaining and not cracked. In there I found my wonderful boyfriend and my stomach lurches. He's with 5 of his friends and all of them looked at me as though a ****ing tree had walked into the room. My boyfriend asked me to sit down and asked me how long I'd been "taking it". This pretty much confirms the suspicions I had of him, as if there was any doubt. He was always loaded, yet didn't have a real job. This next part takes the ****ing cake to be honest. Uniforms march into the snooker parlour acting like they're on TV. They have batons drawn and place my boyfriend, myself and all 5 of his mates under arrest. They find enough things upon their persons to put them all in jail for at least double figures between them. I was released later because I honestly had no knowledge of any of it. I spent the next couple of days at my parents house in the next town, although I didn't tell them obviously. I was keen to find out what happened. Judging by how long the Police questioned me regarding Uncle, he was obviously Head of Sales and my boyfriend and his mates were some of his Sales Assistants. I've pretty much walked through a chav version of Scarface, to be honest. But I still haven't met or saw Tony, even to this day. The only person left to speak to; was Ted. He was the one who told me everything. Ted went the colour of milk when he saw me. At first I thought his social anxiety fired up when he saw a woman on his doorstep, but turns out there was more cause for him to fear than that. It turns out Ted folded under Police interrogation like a red hot Mars bar. Ted was, in fact, riding with the GSE members that day, 2 years previously. I got the whole story out of him between sobs, pleas, what-am-I-going-to-dos and please-don't-tell-anyones. The GSE knew enough about Ted and one of them recognised his car when the paint-balls were firing. When the Police brought Ted in for questioning, he said, he told them everything. Thanks to my boyfriend Ted knew about Uncle, his business and he knew about me. Of course Ted knew everything, he could worm his way through cyber space into people's inboxes and he's clearly seen the messages exchanged between myself, my BF's mates and my BF. He gave them the meeting place, the times they usually met up in there, and my boyfriend's name. Ted, the socially awkward and quirky virgin that he is, used to get bullied relentlessly by his old GSE friends. He was a fish-out-of-water with them, and he was sick of seeing girls he took a shine to go off with his taller, better-looking and more charismatic friends. He gave me one big sob story about that oh-so-special girl that led him on and then ran-off-with-a-dickhead. A GSE dickhead. So he and my boyfriend, the ****ing idiots that they are, both conspired for their revenge. I asked Ted why he sang like a canary and told the Police about the Red Paint and the little business that was being run. I found it hard to believe that he would even need to bring that into it. Well, turns out CID have been looking to catch Uncle out for some time now. Ted tells me that he told them everything, just to save himself. Seriously. Just so he wouldn't get a criminal record and ruin his CV (his career is his only hope of ever meeting someone tbh) he traded all the information to maintain his spotless record. He insists that he tried to hold out but the Police broke him down. Dickheads. When he was saying this he stood up and had his back to me. He was unable to look at me. When he'd finished I went psychotic. I started slapping him, punching him, and eventually he fell on the floor. I slammed a booted foot into his stomach and he heaved in agony, but I couldn't stop and I must have kicked him around 15 times. One for every GSE member. I was standing astride him, my leather over-the-knee boots scuffed a little on top thanks to the thrashing they'd just dealt him and I felt a little wet to be honest. I called him pathetic and every name under the sun as my boots dealt strike-after-strike to his frail body. He'll be fine I think. Needless to say he's moving away in case Uncle finds out about him. As for me, the Police said they may not be done with me and I'm wondering, am I liable to be charged with anything? I don't know much about the law but I've heard of aiding and abetting and various crap so I'm just looking for advice? Sorry it was long. Please don't ask me about my boyfriend because I don't know that I'll wait for him to be released and I don't even know if I miss the lunatic to be honest. | |||
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Why would people behave this way? What is the point of it?
| Background I filed for divorce after 22 months of marriage. It has been a very tempestuous marriage laced with brief moments of calm and clarity. Alas, I decided that I will have to be prepared to be Mr. Bad Guy and file for divorce, even though stbx had spent the first 18months of our marriage (even while on honeymoon) threatening divorce. When I eventually got fed up and told her to go ahead this April - she simply told me to go and file if I want to. Fast forward to July 31 and I decided that enough was enough, I was not going to dance the divorce waltz anymore. Since then, I have felt sad about what I am doing but convinced it is the right thing. We are still living in the same house until she returns to the USA at the end of this month. Here are the issues that I just don't understand: Before filing, I told her that I would be putting in the papers the following week. I had all kinds of emotions and questions going through my head at this time but I told her what I would be doing and when. Her response was, "What are you waiting for? Why not do it tomorrow?" So, I did! After filing, she then turns on me saying this was not what she wanted and I am effectively divorcing her. I kind'a guessed this would happen even though we mutually agreed to part ways. This hurts somewhat but I fully expected it She then suddenly told me last week that she would be travelling to Italy after taking my 3 kids (her step kids) away for the night. I had no idea how long she was going for. I was cool with these. She arrived from Italy last night and we barely said a word. The last few weeks has seen me start going to the gym more and enjoying my training sessions. I used to go 2-3 times a week, now I do 5 minimum! These have been very good for me during this crazy time. While she was in Italy, I bought a tub of Protein and Creatin Powder for faster recovery etc. I was sitting in the living room when she took time out from packing her things (for which I have offered to help in anyway I can) and went into the kitchen. She then comes to me in the living room and says: "Not that this is any of my business. I see you got some protein powder. I assume you're bulking up for your next catch. I think you look better lighter". I couldn't believe this. I felt like she was hammering nails into my head. Heck, this is a yet married woman, who has just returned from about 4 days alone in Italy. I do not question her fidelity at all but to have these sort of snide and loaded remarks fired at me is just torture. Why would she do this? I fully expect more of it. One of the things that I HATE the most about our marriage (and I have discussed this ad-infinitum) are the sniping snide remarks. This is just painful. Can anyone please help me know how to deal with these?. I imagine it will only get worse. We will remain under the same roof for another 2 weeks roughly but I have promised myself that I will not allow myself to get angry, resentful or engage in an argument. This is just painful. | |||
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My best friend confessed to cheating a year ago. Do I tell her husband?
| I am just speechless.My best friend told me recently that she had a ONS with a work colleague. Stupid stupid woman! I am shocked as I always thought she had a rock solid marriage. They have been together ten years. She always speaks so highly of her husband and says she is happy in all aspects of their marriage. Infact they are in the process of adopting and are both very excited. So why did she do it? She says she was flattered by the attention and was curious.... I asked her if she was going to tell her husband but she refuses to. She knows that it was a one off and will never cheat again she says. She feels disgusted with herself for losing control... living with this secret has been like a cancer she says. But she would rather live with this lie than her marriage ending. So now she has put me in this really awkward situation! I socialize with the two of them every two month and I don't know how I am going to behave around her husband. I am keeping her secret alive and feel terrible. But why is it my responsibility to tell him? I don't want their drama as I have enough of my own to deal with. I feel really angry towards my best friend for telling me. I also feel she is a coward. Infact I have lost a little respect for her. | |||
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Distance
| One of my sons has 3 babies. Ages 5,2,8mos. Hes in jail. Has been for 6mos. Im very close to his family. I visit them for a few days every wk. I see things worsen with every visit. His GF is 24yrs old. She is addicted to Percocet,Norco, and even Vicodin ES. She cant function without pills. This last visit my heart broke and Im at a loss of what to do. I went there the day before my 5yr old GS was to start Kindergarten. I thought we'd all be excited and hed eat dinner, have a bath, pick out his school clothes, and go to bed early in anticipation of starting school. Well, we did all that WITHOUT his mom. It was sad. She promised to do an art project with him at 7pm that night. I ended up doing it with him at 830pm. In the AM we woke early, had breakfast and waited for mom. School started at 8:10am. She wandered in at 7:40. She insisted he wear something different than what he had on, and that he change his shoes. He cried and cried and screamed as she forced on his shoes because he had two unhealed blisters behind his feet. She didnt take him to meet his teacher the day prior, nor did she take him to school on his first day. Her mom did. When school was o ut and all the kids in the apt complex were home, he wasnt. 30minutes later she stormed in yelling she forgot to pick him up. I borrowed the neighbors car and went to get him. He had been waiting 40min. I wanted tocry so bad. She didnt ask him about his day, instead, she sat at the table carrying on about having cold sweats and her body being on fire, her focus was on acquiring more pills. Never mind that he was all sunburnt or that the 2 girls were wearing soiled diapers, or that there was no food in the fridge, but $600.00 on her food stamp card. I left that night. She was enraged. Im so sick with worry about my Gkids. What can I do?? | |||
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Was the way i approached and spoke to my ex fair?
| I saw my ex bf today while he was working, but i was shopping with my mum, so found him and her talking to each other when i was looking around. I went and stood right behind him while he was talking. I did feel a bit uncomfortable about it all, but i didn't want to not say hi, so i moved next to my mum to which he noticed me. He put him arm out for a hug and started to walk over, so i hugged him. But he then started acting as though everything has been ok and treats my mum as though he never broke up with me. At first i wasn't really looking at him in the face much. to which he noticed and said either 'You can look at me in the face, i don't bite' or 'You can talk to me, i don't bite' - im not sure on what he said, but i replied saying 'Well we haven't even spoken for a while' to which he just said 'Oh'. he then just asked general questions like how uni's going. blah blah. and we spoke nicely for a bit but it was awkward too. I didn't want to go straight up to him and act all happy and fine, like he did in front of my mum, But i didn't want to be mean either. My mum turned around and said to me when leaving the shop, that i looked a little pissed off when me and him started talking and that i kept my arms crossed. and the reason why was, 1). i was holding my coat lol but 2). because of how he treated me. As He would talk to me for a month, then sudden ignore right after the break up.He did that same a while ago where he'd start talking to me all nicely and stuff, then ignored me for the 2 months that just passed, and even though i was looking out for him as one of him family members died and that i knew he would be pretty upset about it. I felt annoyed around the time as he just treated me like rubbish, and he knew i cared too.. So yeah i was a bit annoyed that he was acting as if he hasn't done anything and as though he never ignored me.. But was the way i acted, ok? I do feel a bit bad, but then again i don't. Ps. he was my first bf and we was together 1 year 2 months. so he meant a lot to me and he used to be my best friend. so thats another reason why i wasn't acting all happy and excited when i first saw him. | |||
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How do I overcome this?
| My bf and I have been together for 4 months, known each other for 8. I see on Facebook sometimes that he becomes friends with girls and likes some of their pictures (as in he'll go through them and like certain ones) It just bothers me..does he actually like as in fancy that person or find them attractive :( | |||
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Cowes Week Shepards Wharf
| Met a beautiful blonde law student from Leeds Met on Monday at Shepards Wharf, Cowes Week. We danced and had fun then I had to rush for a ferry. All I know is her name begins with C and it's a bit unusual, she's beautiful and blonde and we had a lot of fun. If anyone knows who she is or how I might find her, i'd like to give her my contact details. | |||
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No Sex or Affection - ED Wives
| Ok, I'll see if this is the right place to post. My hubby has ED. Whether it is physical or emotional, has not been determined. We have tried: - meds - pump, rings - seeing a counselor (him) - "fake it until you make it" - morning ambush (me) - being extra cute and flirty (me) - waiting until he "wants" it ****** crickets chirping ***** I have researched the possible reasons why a man might experience ED: - Low testosterone - Smoking - Diabetes - His wife makes more money than he does - His wife makes less money - His wife is more attractive than he is - His wife is less attractive - He's stressed about work, money, family ..... etc. - Being pressured to have sex The last time my Hubby and I made love, he seemed to enjoy it, and I got emotional and said - "Can we PLEASE do this more often?" Well, that was 8 months ago. I get it - sex is just no fun when you have to take a pill, use a gizmo, etc. Just not worth it to him, I guess. But if there's one thing I've learned, is that men will stop at nothing to do what makes them happy. Picture your guy's hobby. Golfing? Fishing? Tennis? Look at the planning, time, expense involved in that. I run the gamut of emotion, depending upon the day, but overall I feel that it's just such a darned shame, it shouldn't have to be this way. I know, whatever the cause, that his problem is "performance anxiety". So that leaves me without even any affection at all. He has even blamed me in the past for not having enough sex - trust me, this is a deflection, and not me pushing him away. It is easier for him to complain than to do something about it. So after 20 years of marriage, I'm not going to leave my husband, whom I love, or seek affection elsewhere. I guess sex is just for other people. I'm defeated, and just try not to be hurt by this, because I feel like I've tried everything, and he doesn't care how this affects me. So I'd like to hear from other ED wives who have been left in the dust because of their husband's problem. | |||
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The most difficult thing today ...
| This is bothering me a lot, but it doesn't really fit into one of the other threads I have going. Let me just tell the story here, and if you have a comment, feel free to leave it. Today is the last day before my wife and son come back to China from Korea. To pass the time, I went to People's Square in Shanghai both to take the picture of the Matchmaking (which I posted in the travel pics thread) and also because, being a lover of history and culture like I am, I wanted to visit the Shanghai Museum again - that always makes me smile. somewhere along the way, I was walking in people's square, and I was passed by a woman whom I guess to be about 30 - 35 years old. She caught my attention because she was wearing bags for shoes, her hair was unkempt and obviously had not been washed for a while. As she passed by, I turned to watch, and I noticed her ankles were swollen, and her skin just looked like she had problems. She was very obviously not in good health. I'm accustomed to beggars. I've encountered a few here. But this woman did not beg. She just passed me by, walked a little while, and sat on one of the benches. She had the same tired and hungry walk about her that I see from some of the poorer beggars everywhere, but she didn't beg. It really tugged at my heart, and I can't really explain why I singled her out. There was a time when I routinely ignored beggars and people I thought were homeless, but that changed in San Francisco one day when I met an older woman who was begging as I walked by. That woman was not overly assertive, but as I passed by, she said simply, "Please sir, I'm very hungry," and her voice sounded just like my grandmother's voice. It KILLED me. I couldn't pass her by. She affected me deeply enough that I haven't been able to just pass by beggars the same way again. I don't give all of them something, but there are some that just really tug at my heart, and I give them something - although admittedly, it is a pittance. I've given beggars something in Shanghai, too, and thanks to an idea from my wife, I'm always conscientious that if I get more than I can eat at a restaurant, I ask for a box, and I give it to one of the bag people or street people ... no since in wasting it if someone is hungry enough to eat it. So this lady today just stopped me in my tracks. She didn't ask me for anything, but her situation just seemed to scream at me. I stood for several minutes watching her after she sat down, and I considered what I could give her. I thought even though she didn't ask me for anything, her health seemed to be much poorer than the beggars I had given something to in Shanghai, and I tried to think what I could actually do for her ... while also being mindful that I am a married man whose wife isn't beside him at the moment. Finally, I decided on an amount I could help based on the amount of cash I knew I had in my wallet. I removed that amount first, then walked back to where she had sat down. she didn't look at me, and didn't acknowledge I was there. I spoke to her in Chinese saying "Here. Take this." She didn't look at me, but spoke and said, "I'm not a beggar. Don't try to give me anything." It took me a few seconds for me to understand. I understood most of the words she said, but I had to put a few things in place to fully get what she said. After it sunk in, I said, "But I thought maybe you were hungry, or could use something." She answered back with something, but I honestly didn't understand what she said. After thinking, and realizing I couldn't catch her meaning, I answered in Chinese, "I don't understand." She answered back while still never looking up at me, "You don't understand what I'm saying, and you don't understand where I am." I've dealt with a few of the minds in the Bay Area especially that were just shot ... gone ... she seemed to speak much more coherently than they did, so I didn't think this was her state, but I have to keep in mind that I'm trying to deal with her in a language that is still new to me, but is her native language. I don't really know what that meant idiomatically, and I'm not sure was coherent, even though it seemed to be coherent to me. After considering this, I thought maybe I should sit down on the bench with her and ask her her name, or try to make conversation that would bolster her feeling of humanity, but I wasn't sure that was what she was trying to convey ... and again, I have to be mindful that I am a married man whose wife is not by my side at this moment. I also have to consider that she may have just disinvited me to deal with her any more - I didn't understand the situation well enough to really know. After a moment of standing beside her with her never lifting her eyes to look at me, and never extending her hand to accept what I offered to her, I decided it was best to just take this as her turning down any gift from me, and decided maybe it was best for her esteem if I left it at that. She was obviously not well groomed and not in good health, but she didn't seem to be starving. So after thinking it over, I turned and left her. But it tears at my heart. I'm really a gentle soul, and tenderhearted ... and even though she turned down what I offered her, I can't help but feel for her in her situation. I don't know how she got there, and I don't really care. It just seems that she is in a very difficult situation and she's all alone. I'm a Christian man, and I believe in the power of prayer. I believe in the principal taught in James that says that when the hungry comes and asks you for something, telling him "Be filled. Go in peace," doesn't fill him nor make him go in peace. I wanted to be able to do something more for this person, but I don't know how I could have. The only thing I really can do is offer prayer that she will be healed, and lifted out of that situation, and find love. There doesn't seem to be anything more I could do. I don't know. I'm rambling tonight because she had the stongest effect on me that anybody has since that woman in San Francisco said in that voice that sounded like my Grandmother, "Please sir. I'm very hungry." It'd probably be easier for me to think about if this woman had told me she was hungry and it had been as simple as taking her to McDonalds. As it is, it leaves me really wishing I could have done more, and really thinking about her and wondering if she will be okay. | |||
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Why?
| I have been with my daughter's father for almost 7 years, we have had some great times together, I can truly say that I love him, but he is wearing me out...I know what I want in a relationship and he is not ever going to give it to me, he tells me to be patient, I have been more than patient, he has been with us and left us several times, he constantly lies to me about simple things, he stands me up often. I am so tired, so tired, I feel like I expect it, I expect him not to show up, I expect him to lie, I question myself if what he tells me is the actual truth, I have made several sacrifices to accommodate his desires, all this to say I feel like we have come or should I say I have come to the point that I can't do this anymore, I would do anything for him and he knows it, but in still it is never enough, I feel like he uses me, I'm his dumping ground, and I want to be more than that, I want more than an occasional visit or meaningless phone ca ll...of course he says all the right things to me but his actions do not match anything that he says...and as far as his interaction with our daughter, it has become very sporadic, almost nonexistent...I love him and want him to do more and be more for us as well as for himself, but I feel like I can't go on like this anymore...It's not fair to me or to her, I feel like it's time to let go and say goodbye...I just don't know how...(because being honest...I really don't want to) | |||
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Does Religion Enhance Your Marriage?
| How many here find that religion and/or spirituality enhances the love for their spouse or hinders it? I find it enhances it. (please only respectful and sincere answers... no mocking of religion please) | |||
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