OMG! - BoomerWomenSpeak.com - Baby Boomer Women Community

You are not logged in. [Log In] Boomer Women Speak » Forums » Family » Divorce » OMG!

Site Links

Who's Online

0 Registered (), 309 Guests and 2 Spiders online.

Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod

Forum Stats

3239 Members
63 Forums
16332 Topics
210704 Posts

Max Online: 658 @ 11/09/24 04:15 PM

Page 2 of 3

Topic Options

#208244 - 10/07/10 10:31 AM Re: OMG! [Re: Anne Holmes]
orchid Registered: 01/21/07 Posts: 3675 Loc: British Columbia, Canada	Originally Posted By: Anne Holmes "OMG! Til death. That's a long time. I'm really not sure..." And then realizing that there were 300 people in the church watching me, all of them had sent me wedding presents and my parents had just shelled out "beaucoup bucks" for this big event... If I backed out, I'd cause embarrassment to everyone, I'd have to send back all the gifts, etc. etc... I quickly evaluated my options, decided I could not possibly bolt... So I said to myself, "Well, I'll stay here and continue to get married. After all, I love him. But instead of "til death..." let's just agree to "as long as it works." It "worked" for 10 years and two children. And I was a lot smarter the second time around... I personally met a woman and her hubby, where she was engaged to another man and on the night before the wedding, she realized she just couldn't take the step to say I do at the altar. So she cancelled the wedding, reception, everything, returned engagement ring and fell into a depression for a few weeks. Meaning she could barely get out of bed. Meanwhile her bridesmaids hung out at her place for 1-2 days. Then several years later she met her now hubby, a different guy. She is much happier. _________________________ http://cyclewriteblog.wordpress.com/ (How cycling leads to other types of adventures, thoughts) http://velourbansism.wordpress.com
Top

#208275 - 10/09/10 10:46 AM Re: OMG! [Re: orchid]
jabber Member Registered: 02/17/05 Posts: 10032 Loc: New York State	When I was a child, I heard talk of a neighborhood gal, who ran away the day of her wedding with the groom's best man. Now that seemed a bit nuts to me, but last I knew those two runaways were still married. And that was decades in the past. Go figure! _________________________ https://www.amazon.com/author/bonnie.mill-lemke https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/bookshelf
Top

#208283 - 10/10/10 09:29 AM Re: OMG! [Re: jabber]
jabber Member Registered: 02/17/05 Posts: 10032 Loc: New York State	A 65% divorce rate, seems outrageous to me. No wonder the kids don't bother gettting married these days. And probably most of them are from divorced families. I imagine all of us know couples who married young and are still together; and know couples who waited until late in life to marry, and it didn't last. IMO marriage is a gamble. Sometimes you're lucky and sometimes you're not! _________________________ https://www.amazon.com/author/bonnie.mill-lemke https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/bookshelf
Top

#208802 - 11/06/10 12:18 PM Re: OMG! [Re: jabber]
jabber Member Registered: 02/17/05 Posts: 10032 Loc: New York State	I think young people marry oftentimes without thinking about longterm issues. IMO when humans are young, they don't look very far into the distance. Today is all that matters. _________________________ https://www.amazon.com/author/bonnie.mill-lemke https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/bookshelf
Top

#208849 - 11/08/10 09:17 AM Re: OMG! [Re: jabber]
jabber Member Registered: 02/17/05 Posts: 10032 Loc: New York State	When I aged some, I looked for traits other than physical attractiveness in a person. Currently I think a sweet spirit is much more of a drawing factor than a pretty face and nice body. When young, a handsome face was all I could see. Life has a way of slapping us up! _________________________ https://www.amazon.com/author/bonnie.mill-lemke https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/bookshelf
Top

#208856 - 11/08/10 08:34 PM Re: OMG! [Re: jabber]
Anne Holmes Boomer in Chief Registered: 03/11/10 Posts: 3212 Loc: Illinois	I agree Jabber! I married my first husband for all the wrong reasons. Handsome faces don't last and the rest of the package is so much more important in the long run! _________________________ Boomer in Chief of Boomer Women Speak and the National Association of Baby Boomer Women. www.nabbw.com www.boomerwomenspeak.com www.boomerlifestyle.com www.boomerco.com
Top

#208860 - 11/09/10 09:17 AM Re: OMG! [Re: Anne Holmes]
jabber Member Registered: 02/17/05 Posts: 10032 Loc: New York State	Anne, Wish I was this wise years ago. Could've avoided a lot of heartache! LOL... _________________________ https://www.amazon.com/author/bonnie.mill-lemke https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/bookshelf
Top

#208895 - 11/10/10 08:45 AM Re: OMG! [Re: jabber]
jabber Member Registered: 02/17/05 Posts: 10032 Loc: New York State	Most things in life seem backwards to me: When we need wisdom we don't have it. When we have it, we don't need it. Same thing is true for big houses and money. _________________________ https://www.amazon.com/author/bonnie.mill-lemke https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/bookshelf
Top

#208897 - 11/10/10 08:50 AM Re: OMG! [Re: jabber]
MustangGal Unregistered	Jabber, that's so true -- perhaps with age we'll become wiser b/c less is more.
Top

#211068 - 02/13/11 09:10 PM Re: OMG! [Re: jabber]
chatty lady Writer Registered: 02/24/04 Posts: 20267 Loc: Nevada	Watching all the award shows on TV is mind boggling, for every six pregnant women only one had a husband already, and most weren't married but living together, and a couple were just pregnant. What kind of morals or lack of morals are our kids learning from these entertainers they look up to??? _________________________ Take a peek at my BLOG: http://charleen-micheles.blogspot.com/
Top

Page 2 of 3

Previous Topic

Index

Next Topic

Hop to:

Boomer Women Speak
9672 W US Highway 20, Galena, IL 61036 • info@boomerwomenspeak.com • 1-877-BOOMERZ

Boomer Women Speak cannot be held accountable for any personal relationships or meetings face-to-face that develop because of interaction with the forums. In addition, we cannot be held accountable for any information posted in Boomer Women Speak forums.

Boomer Women Speak does not represent or endorse the reliability of any information or offers in connection with advertisements,
articles or other information displayed on our site. Please do your own due diligence when viewing our information.

Privacy Policy • Terms of Use • Disclaimer

Copyright 2002-2019 • Boomer Women Speak • BoomerCo Inc. • All rights reserved