PsyopRanger
Recycles dryer sheets
- Joined
- Jul 4, 2006
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HaHa said:Sorry to say this amigo, but if it is weekly, it is getting long in the tooth.
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I thought I would be encouraging to the Viagra crowd.
HaHa said:Sorry to say this amigo, but if it is weekly, it is getting long in the tooth.
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Well Ranger, for me (and DW, married 37 years this September), remember that he/she should be your "best friend" -- The one that you share your life with, above all others...PsyopRanger said:I may not be qualified to answer this with my mere 9 years of marriage but I have learned a lot and watched 90% of my friends co-workers go through divorce.
PsyopRanger said:Read one of Dr. James Dobson’s books yearly.
shiny said:Yes, our strong mutual disgust for this guy will surely help keep us together!
HaHa said:Sorry to say this amigo, but if it is weekly, it is getting long in the tooth.
Ron'Da said:Well Ranger, for me (and DW, married 37 years this September), remember that he/she should be your "best friend" -- The one that you share your life with, above all others...
- Ron
HaHa said:LMAO!!!
I am hopelessly cynical; guys like him make me nauseated.
But here is one for you- what happens if one member of a couple formerly united in humorous detachment from all that bull**** suddenly gets religion?
Take it from ol' Mikey, it can happen.
PsyopRanger said:Sorry, let my faith out
I had the opposite happen, I was a believer. Then got into Scientology and God is Man-made, religion is a tool for control type stuff and it alienated me from my spouse who was a Christian. After many mistakes, set backs and failures during this time, I came back to Christianity and finally settled as a Christian but non-denominational and not religious but belief in a relationship with God without all the rules and dogma.
Oh yeah…no politics or relgion 8)
unclemick2 said:Where does a 29 year one night stand fit in this discussion?
kcowan said:For women, an active interest in the husband's vocation/hobbies. And respect his views about child-rearing.
Read one of Dr. James Dobson’s books yearly.
http://www.5280.com/issues/2006/0607/feature.php?pageID=400Once, as Dobson writes in The New Strong-Willed Child, Jimbo [Dobson himself] provoked a fight between a pug bulldog and a “sweet, passive Scottie named Baby” by throwing a tennis ball toward Baby: “The bulldog went straight for Baby’s throat and hung on. It was an awful scene. Neighbors came running from everywhere as the Scottie screamed in terror. It took ten minutes and a garden hose for the adults to pry loose the bulldog’s grip. By then Baby was almost dead. He spent two weeks in the animal hospital, and I spent two weeks in the doghouse. I was hated by the entire town.”
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A fifth member of [Dobson's] household, a stubborn little dachshund named Sigmund Freud, added to the chaos. When “Siggie” refused to go to bed one night, Dobson got out a belt and whacked him. The dog bared its teeth and Dobson gave it a second whack. “What developed next is impossible to describe,” writes Dobson in The New Strong-Willed Child. “That tiny dog and I had the most vicious fight ever staged between man and beast. I fought him up one wall and down the other, with both of us scratching and clawing and growling. I am still embarrassed by the memory of the entire scene.”
Nazarenes believe that after a person has had an initial born-again experience, the Holy Spirit will seek to perform a second work of grace called “entire sanctification” or “baptism with the Holy Spirit,” which purges all sin. Gil Alexander-Moegerle, a former Focus executive and once one of Dobson’s most trusted advisors, writes in his 1997 book James Dobson’s War on America that this “Holiness” principle is key to understanding Dobson’s worldview: “James Dobson believes that he has been entirely sanctified, morally perfected, that he does not and cannot sin. Now you know why he and moralists like him make a life of condemning what he believes to be the sins of others. He is perfect.”
johnlw said:After being married for about 8 years, I came home one day from work and my wife says to me: "I've decided to become Catholic"...
There are classes that adults can take (RCIA) to become Catholic. I attended the classes with her just because I was curious about it. At the end, she became a Catholic and I didn't (I had no intention, I'm not religious).
Our daughters have attended Catholic Schools their entire lives (The older one decided to not confirm and does not consider herself Catholic. The younger one does consider herself Catholic and will confirm next year.) Occasionally, I will attend Mass when my youngest daughter is singing, she's the Cantor and lead chorister for the children's Choir.
There have been some pretty funny moments caused from the mixtures in faith (or lack thereof). About a year ago,my younger daughter was scheduled to sing at a special song and bible reading at the church. The director of the choir asked my wife if she would do a reading. My wife, who has no desire to speak in front of a crowd, asked her if it was OK for our oldest daughter to do the reading, she said sure, that was fine. So, when my oldest daughter finds out about this she says: "I'm not doing it... I don't want so speak in front of a crowd either". So, non-religious Dad stepped into the breach and did the reading. Afterward, one of the regular "Old church ladies" came up to me and said: "You did a wonderful job, you speak with a lot of authority".
Married 24 years and still going strong.
PsyopRanger said:I guess everyone’s views will vary; I like his approach as I favor a more right wing faith based approach to marriage, while this works for me and my wife, others will not like it and want a more left/balanced approach.
For this I recommend:...
unclemick2 said:Where does a 29 year one night stand fit in this discussion?
ladelfina said:More constant and peaceful where you can feel when you are in synch and when you might need to adjust. Sometimes someone has to take over the oars for a time.
ladelfina said:Rich, I like your "rowing the boat" image..