Someone posted this elsewhere on ASF not long ago, I kept it, I think it's true.
Requirements of a potential partner.(dunno about No4 though)
1) must be kind hearted...any evidence of harshness or cruelty, forget it
2) similar intellectual capacity
3) matched sex drives
4) similar assets
5) know the person for long enough for initial chemistry to wear off
And turn the volume up!A while ago somewhere
I don't know when,
I was watching
a movie with a friend.
I fell in love with the actress.
She was playing a part
that I could understand.
Neil Young
Hi Mr B,
twas me said that, was there more on that list?, cant remember
To clarify why No4, re assets; in an ideal world, it helps keep the love pure, if it is unsullied by financial neccesity.
How do you know when your in love ?
Answer :- When she slaps you on the back and says your " in " Love
A nice passage. Even The Skeptics Annotated Bible likes some of that. http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/1cor/13.html4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
- Corinthians 13
This isn't uncommon. If a couple have both been working, then retire, suddenly they find themselves together 24 hours a day and they realise they have little in common.Good advice especially the first one.
A good friend of mine's marriage broke up after 32 years, they were always regarded as the perfect couple.
He started to drink a bit too much and would fall asleep easily etc anyway she left him.
He asked her why she married him in the first place and she said, it was convenient at the time..................
After 32 years ????
Mr B. to make the suggestion that women marry 'for security' suggests that women are usually less well off than men. This isn't necessarily so.Maybe a few of the ladies out there might throw some honest light on this - do women marry for security only, and how common is this ? Do they just pretend to love the guy ?
Why do you think women don't have exactly the same problems?and and and .....................while were at it ladies tell us how can a guy tell if someone is genuine.
We blokes havent got a clue, we look into your eyes and we melt and all sense goes out the window, we need protecting, we need you to tell us the truth about how we can tell if a woman is genuine.
No, I prefer women.
This isn't uncommon. If a couple have both been working, then retire, suddenly they find themselves together 24 hours a day and they realise they have little in common.
Surely better to go their own ways than spend their remaining years bickering about everything?
Mr B. to make the suggestion that women marry 'for security' suggests that women are usually less well off than men. This isn't necessarily so.
And why would women regard men as a source of security? If a woman is financially independent, isn't she going to want to marry someone because she genuinely cares about him?
What would be the point in pretending anything?
I doubt that that's common at all. Rather I think many people get caught up in their basic biochemistry, and mistakenly regard this as 'love', then think the automatic sequelae is to get married or at least live together.
Hence the high rate of divorce. When the lust wears off, there isn't enough left to sustain a relationship.
Why do you think women don't have exactly the same problems?
You're suggesting that women are machiavellian in manipulating you poor blokes, when in fact I'd say just as many blokes have pulled the wool over women's eyes.
Mr B. to make the suggestion that women marry 'for security' suggests that women are usually less well off than men. This isn't necessarily so.
And why would women regard men as a source of security? If a woman is financially independent, isn't she going to want to marry someone because she genuinely cares about him?
What would be the point in pretending anything?
I doubt that that's common at all.
This isn't uncommon. If a couple have both been working, then retire, suddenly they find themselves together 24 hours a day and they realise they have little in common.
Surely better to go their own ways than spend their remaining years bickering about everything?
Because once the kids move out, on of the chemicals that keeps you in 'love' stop getting produced:
Think you mean the opposite , at least your a truthful poof
You give your hand to me
And then you say hello
I can hardly speak
My heart is beating so
And anyone can tell
You think you know me well
But you don't know me
Oh you don't know the one
That thinks of you at night
Who longs to kiss your lips
And yearns to squeeze you tight
No I'm just a friend
That's all I've ever been
You just don't know me
I never knew the art of making love
Though my heart aches with love for you
Afraid and shy, I let my chance go by
The chance that you might love me too
You give your hand to me
And then you say goodbye
I watch you walk away
Beside the lucky guy
You'll never, never know
The one who loves you so
You just don't know me
I never knew the art of making love
Though my heart aches with love for you
Afraid and shy, I let my chance go by
The chance that you might love me too
You give your hand to me
And then you say goodbye
I watch you walk away
Beside the lucky guy
Who'll never, never know
The one who loves you so
You just don't know me
You'll never, ever know
mmmm, cause you just don't know me
Sometimes music says it all, Ray Charles............
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