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Re: How to go down with style

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Post by mroman » Tue, Oct 14, 2008, 7:08 PM UTC

run4yourlives wrote: post #30

mroman wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think your comment was very immature and unwarranted. The man's wife was wrong to leave him. The younger and prettier woman was smart and fortunate enough to have found a worthwhile man.

I think what's wrong is the approach that a partner in life is some sort of trophy to be had. That's why his wife left him - she wasn't really in it for him, she was playing her role. To succeed in love, find the one that loves you at your worst. That's my two cents.

> To succeed in love, find the one that loves you at your worst. > That's my two cents.

Absolutely.

Been through that BTW, so I know how that works.

Doesn't the Judeo-Christian wedding ceremony include the vow (paraphrasing) that people stick together in good and bad times?

Finding out that your worth as a mate to someone depends on the current bank balance is one HELL of a rude awakening. Great learning experience though, I would not have it any other way.

Re: How to go down with style

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Post by Hexstream » Tue, Oct 14, 2008, 10:27 PM UTC

mroman wrote: post #27

trevelyan wrote: post #26

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I'm male and reacted the same way as blurry. It's a puerile touch. Perhaps we can avoid this sort of thing in the future?

I believe the person was simply reporting on the facts, and I think that pointing out that fact (that the new wife was young and pretty) was valid, as it illustrated one of the ways that the man's efforts paid off, how life rewarded his honesty, integrity, and commitment to do the right thing. It made me feel good actually, some woman leaves him FOR DOING THE RIGHT THING . . . but then, eventually, why, he meets a gr…

"Would it have been better you think if he had remained single, or if he had ended up with a wife that was not as great as the one that left him?"

I think it wouldn't have been mentionned in the story then. Still a valid, if rethoric, question.

Re: How to go down with style

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Post by mroman » Tue, Oct 14, 2008, 11:30 PM UTC

Hexstream wrote: post #32

mroman wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe the person was simply reporting on the facts, and I think that pointing out that fact (that the new wife was young and pretty) was valid, as it illustrated one of the ways that the man's efforts paid off, how life rewarded his honesty, integrity, and commitment to do the right thing. It made me feel good actually, some woman leaves him FOR DOING THE RIGHT THING . . . but then, eventually, why, he meets a gr…

"Would it have been better you think if he had remained single, or if he had ended up with a wife that was not as great as the one that left him?" I think it wouldn't have been mentionned in the story then. Still a valid, if rethoric, question.

I agree.

I like that story, wish there were more like it!

Re: How to go down with style

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Post by MHollender » Wed, Oct 15, 2008, 1:41 PM UTC

blurry wrote: post #17

I might get downvoted for this but what the hell. Did you effing have to mention the younger girlfriend prize while talking about honor of all things? You just made me and every other female/over 30 reader feel like shit. If you think we all get worthless as we grow older, have the decency of keeping it to yourself. Especially if you are going to expound the moral virtues of treating people right. "Think twice before…

"You just made me and every other female/over 30 reader feel like shit."

Why do you care what other people think of your age or anything? If someone wrote "she got a boyfriend with a much smaller beer gut", should I feel bad just because I have a significant beer gut? Nay. Other people's priorities is other people's business.

Always being scared knee-jerk of saying anything less than happy-positive-sugar-candy because it might offend someone somewhere is a sure way to become unable to express anything important.