I didn't marry you for lunch - Page 2

Mr._johngalt · 10-25-2006, 04:57 AM

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Originally Posted by sgeeeee

It strikes me that this poll should have asked how things went relative to how they went prior to retirement. The absolute rating misses the fact that people could go from great to okay or from poor to okay.

DW and I definately enjoy each other more without having to deal with jobs.

I never got to experience the "before and after". I suspect more
"togetherness" would not have helped though.

JG

polloloco · 10-25-2006, 04:01 PM

The wife has already told me that I cannot stay home all day. I will be forced to leave home and go somewhere for some period of time. No problem when the weather is nice and the golf course is dry. Otherwise I may be out in the barn working on some project or other.

renferme · 10-25-2006, 06:26 PM

Wife still working !

**Martha** · 10-25-2006, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by polloloco

The wife has already told me that I cannot stay home all day. I will be forced to leave home and go somewhere for some period of time. No problem when the weather is nice and the golf course is dry. Otherwise I may be out in the barn working on some project or other.

In my part of the country, you frequently see old guys just driving aimlessly around or parked down in the gravel pit, cemetery or down some country road. We always figured the wives had kicked them out of the house for a while.

Mr._johngalt · 10-25-2006, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Martha

We always figured the wives had kicked them out of the house for a while.

I expect they are just looking for their "quiet place".

JG

youbet · 10-25-2006, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Martha

In my part of the country, you frequently see old guys just driving aimlessly around or parked down in the gravel pit, cemetery or down some country road. We always figured the wives had kicked them out of the house for a while.

I thought in your part of the country that was what ice fishing houses were for! At least that's what Garrison says!

yakers · 10-25-2006, 10:21 PM

Well, I'm still working and have lunch with my wife several times a week. We have spent some extended times together and we love it. Maybe things will change but I look forward to a lot of time with my wife when I retire. She is bugging me to stop working already, so we can do more during the week, unfair offerings, says we could go kayaking more

My wife is the person I would choose to be stranded on a desert island with.

In fact, in Rarotonga we arranged to be dropped off on an uninhabited island for a day. Well, that was only a day, interesting sunburns. But that was a good start.

Mr._johngalt · 10-26-2006, 04:24 AM

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Originally Posted by yakers

we arranged to be dropped off on an uninhabited island .

I tried this with my wife. She wouldn't stay when she noticed I didn't get off the boat.

JG

Nords · 10-26-2006, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Martha

In my part of the country, you frequently see old guys just driving aimlessly around or parked down in the gravel pit, cemetery or down some country road. We always figured the wives had kicked them out of the house for a while.

They're waiting for you to depart visual range so that they can get out of their truck and use the "Men's Room".

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Originally Posted by Mr._johngalt

I tried this with my wife. She wouldn't stay when she noticed I didn't get off the boat.

JG

How ironic that you would post a joke about abandoning your spouse...

JonnyM · 10-26-2006, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by yakers

My wife is the person I would choose to be stranded on a desert island with.

Neither of us can conceive of spending too much time together. We just enjoy each other's company, even when we get our brains completely computrifried, we both sit up on the bed side by side, each with our respective laptops within arms reach. We don't expect we are typical, but we just don't EVER get tired of each other. PERIOD end of story. I can think of worse problems.

RE2Boys · 10-26-2006, 07:25 PM

Even though I'm semiretired (work during tax season) and wife does not work either, we have two grade school boys so our lives revolve around school, scouts, soccer, guitar lessons, tax season, PTA, and on and on. We each have our areas we volunteer in so we just check the family calendar and go about our separate ways juggling who is doing what with the boys after school, just have a lot more free hours w/o the work hassle.

RE2Boys

Nords · 10-26-2006, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by JonnyM

We don't expect we are typical, but we just don't EVER get tired of each other. PERIOD end of story.

Same here. It grosses out the other couples we hang around with...

Dreamer · 10-31-2006, 10:34 AM

Yakers, JonnyM and Nords,

You guys rock! It is so refreshing to hear about great relationships.

yelnad · 11-06-2006, 08:34 AM

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Originally Posted by JonnyM

We just enjoy each other's company, even when we get our brains completely computrifried, we both sit up on the bed side by side, each with our respective laptops within arms reach.

Wait...this isn't typical?

It's so refreshing to know that there are other geek couples out there in the world. We don't know many of them in our real life.

audreyh1 · 11-06-2006, 07:02 PM

Another happy geek couple here - with matching 17-inch powerbooks. Folks chuckle at us sometimes sitting side by side with our computers out on our patio or in a service facility waiting room.

Audrey

View Poll Results: I recently retired from my outside business to join my wife who was already working at home. People
Didn’t work out at all	3	7.69%
So so – there are still some issues	5	12.82%
It's OK	4	10.26%
Started off rough but it is working well now	5	12.82%
Couldn’t be better	22	56.41%
Voters: 39. You may not vote on this poll

10-25-2006, 04:01 PM	#22
polloloco Recycles dryer sheets Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 107	Re: I didn't marry you for lunch The wife has already told me that I cannot stay home all day. I will be forced to leave home and go somewhere for some period of time. No problem when the weather is nice and the golf course is dry. Otherwise I may be out in the barn working on some project or other.

10-25-2006, 06:26 PM	#23
renferme Recycles dryer sheets Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 452	Re: I didn't marry you for lunch Wife still working !

10-25-2006, 10:21 PM	#27
yakers Thinks s/he gets paid by the post Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,619	Re: I didn't marry you for lunch Well, I'm still working and have lunch with my wife several times a week. We have spent some extended times together and we love it. Maybe things will change but I look forward to a lot of time with my wife when I retire. She is bugging me to stop working already, so we can do more during the week, unfair offerings, says we could go kayaking more My wife is the person I would choose to be stranded on a desert island with. In fact, in Rarotonga we arranged to be dropped off on an uninhabited island for a day. Well, that was only a day, interesting sunburns. But that was a good start. __________________ A slave is someone who waits for someone else to free them

10-26-2006, 07:25 PM	#31
RE2Boys Recycles dryer sheets Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 52	Re: I didn't marry you for lunch Even though I'm semiretired (work during tax season) and wife does not work either, we have two grade school boys so our lives revolve around school, scouts, soccer, guitar lessons, tax season, PTA, and on and on. We each have our areas we volunteer in so we just check the family calendar and go about our separate ways juggling who is doing what with the boys after school, just have a lot more free hours w/o the work hassle. RE2Boys

10-31-2006, 10:34 AM	#33
Dreamer Full time employment: Posting here. Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 874	Re: I didn't marry you for lunch Yakers, JonnyM and Nords, You guys rock! It is so refreshing to hear about great relationships.

11-06-2006, 07:02 PM	#35
audreyh1 Thinks s/he gets paid by the post Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2,222	Re: I didn't marry you for lunch Another happy geek couple here - with matching 17-inch powerbooks. Folks chuckle at us sometimes sitting side by side with our computers out on our patio or in a service facility waiting room. Audrey

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