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Originally Posted by hbk619 
I know someone has said single = not married but in my mind single = one. So plenty of people here might not be single but not married.
Anywho, not married myself (duh). Don't want to be. It's nothing more than a piece of paper to me. You love someone they should know it, you shouldn't have to stand up infront of people and sign a document to prove it.
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Originally Posted by hbk619
IAnywho, not married myself (duh). Don't want to be. It's nothing more than a piece of paper to me. You love someone they should know it, you shouldn't have to stand up infront of people and sign a document to prove it.
Don't PM me with questions -- you might get a nasty PM in response. If you have a question then post it in one of the forums.
I'm single, would like to get married but don't see happening. I'm one of those people that are meant to be alone.
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Very happily married here, to my soulmate, lover and best friend all wrapped up in one gorgeous former classical Russian ballerina.
We have been married for 12 years now, and I am as happy as I was back then. Probably happier actually, as we have a couple of smashing kids to add into the family mix.
My first marriage also produced two kids, now both grown up (20 and 18) but was something of a youthful mistake I fear.
She left me when I came out of hospital, paralysed and confined to a large electric wheelchair, following nearly a year recovering from viral encephalitis. I don't blame her, I was not the same man she married in many different ways. Not least my identity and personality had changed, I was a totally different chap and she couldn't hack it.
Cannot say how I would have reacted if it had been the other way around. But it was hard at the time, what with losing my job, home, dignity, marriage and kids all at the same time - not to mention my mobility.
Funnily enough Yvonne, my second wife, and I met while I was in the wheelchair - albeit a lightweight carbon fibre model by this time as I had regained the use of my arms by then and was actually quite 'fit' as long as you only looked at my upper body
She must have really loved 'me' as she left her boyfriend who was stinking rich to come and live with a struggling writer who did not have two pennies to rub together. I did, however, have a very nice mohawk haircut
We have been married for 12 years now, and I am as happy as I was back then. Probably happier actually, as we have a couple of smashing kids to add into the family mix.
My first marriage also produced two kids, now both grown up (20 and 18) but was something of a youthful mistake I fear.
She left me when I came out of hospital, paralysed and confined to a large electric wheelchair, following nearly a year recovering from viral encephalitis. I don't blame her, I was not the same man she married in many different ways. Not least my identity and personality had changed, I was a totally different chap and she couldn't hack it.
Cannot say how I would have reacted if it had been the other way around. But it was hard at the time, what with losing my job, home, dignity, marriage and kids all at the same time - not to mention my mobility.
Funnily enough Yvonne, my second wife, and I met while I was in the wheelchair - albeit a lightweight carbon fibre model by this time as I had regained the use of my arms by then and was actually quite 'fit' as long as you only looked at my upper body
She must have really loved 'me' as she left her boyfriend who was stinking rich to come and live with a struggling writer who did not have two pennies to rub together. I did, however, have a very nice mohawk haircut
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Originally Posted by Squires
I'm single, would like to get married but don't see happening. I'm one of those people that are meant to be alone.
I am nothing special; of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts, and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough. -The Notebook
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Even us old grumps get married
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Well, not sure how things go over in the UK, but in the US that piece of paper confers rights of survivorship, visitation, custody of children, and such. My wife knows I love her, but without that piece of paper the hospital doesn't and would not let me visit her were she to be in an Intensive Care Unit. Nor would the state accept that any assets bearing her name were our assets if she were to unexpectedly pass away. The piece of paper does confer some rights that come with the decision to enter into a lifelong union with another and without the paper you're pretty much just acquaintances in a legal sense.
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Did you know that if you shacked up with a woman, had young kids with her,
Oh, while we're here, I don't want kids either. If anyones meant to be alone it's me.
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No point punishing a woman with your attitude
Last edited by hbk619; Aug 23rd, 2007 at 3:16 pm.
I am female. I like wrestling. I am not gay. BITE ME.
I also gaurentee nothing, including spellings and advice :P
Check my profile for large version of avatar. It's worth it ;)
I also gaurentee nothing, including spellings and advice :P
Check my profile for large version of avatar. It's worth it ;)
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I was almost married twice, but then got scared of the "... till death do us part" thingy! I just enjoy my freedom too much!
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Originally Posted by hbk619
the government either just talked about or did actualy made a bill that said you could get the same rights as a married couple if you lived together. Huge debates about it very recently.
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Originally Posted by hbk619
Also, who said I'd be punishing anyone?
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Originally Posted by Lardmeister
I was almost married twice, but then got scared of the "... till death do us part" thingy! I just enjoy my freedom too much!
Don't PM me with questions -- you might get a nasty PM in response. If you have a question then post it in one of the forums.
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Just to interject the lighter side of the nuptials into this sometimes sober discussion ...
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By all Means... MARRY!
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry.
That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.
- David Bissonette
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
- Sacha Guitry
After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.
- Hemant Joshi
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates
Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.
- Dumas
The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is, 'What does a woman want?
- Sigmund Freud
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.
- Anonymous
'Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing.
She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.'
- Henny Youngman
'I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.'
- Sam Kinison
'There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking.
It's called marriage.'
- James Holt McGavran
'I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me, and the second one didn't.'
- Patrick Murray
Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming
1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
2. Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Nash
The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once...
- Anonymous
You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.
- Henny Youngman
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
- Rodney Dangerfield
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
- Milton Berle
Marriage is the only war where one sleeps with the enemy.
- Anonymous
A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: 'Wife wanted'.
Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: 'You can have mine.'
- Anonymous
First Guy (proudly): 'My wife's an angel!'
Second Guy: 'You're lucky, mine's still alive.'
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