However, these days, I have the equivalent of a self-taught PhD in relationships, and I only continue in educating myself more and more as I screen out potential hopefuls, as I am also becoming far more extroverted and won't take unacceptable behavior or actions from anyone.
A pre-nup is a definite subject to broach early on to test the waters and their intent...unless they've squirreled away more than I have.
That, and I certainly pay far more attention to personality types/tests when looking for potential matches (gotta love eHarmony.com
).
Peter, congratulations to you. You seem to have learned a valuable lesson, and at moderate cost. "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me."
My sons courting behaviors on the other hand put me in mind of the following 19th century poem:
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
'Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!' he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
'Forward, the Light Brigade!'
Was there a man dismay'd ?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Some one had blunder'd:
Their's not to make reply,
Their's not to reason why,
Their's but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.
Exerpted from "Charge of the Light Brigade", Alfred Lord Tennyson.
I think I better go get some Courvoisier
Mikey
