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Gabe1

Gabe1

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MOXOMUMD said:
As "nice" as the clothes are gonna get. :) I go for comfort instead of trying to make some fashion statement. Formal dinner wardrobe is all nicely rolled in our nicely packed suitcases. I still have to pack the carry-ons and buy snacks for the drive to the airport. Ninety minute drive to Pittsburgh, two hour flight to Ft. Lauderdale, forty mile ride to Miami.
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I'm so excited for you! As a friend of mine says, it is getting so close you can lick it! Is your DD over the top excited?
 
JenniferS

JenniferS

When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
Gabe1 said:
No, 4.5 years of dating. But none of those years were teenage dating either.
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I actually knew him when he was a "minor niner" and I was in grade 10.
Couldn't stand him!

My best friend was in love with him (as only teenaged girls can be) and we used to follow him around everywhere. He broke her heart at a school dance (which I did not attend as I was not allowed to go to dances), and that was the end of us following him around everywhere.

I changed schools and didn't see him again until we started working together two years later.
And for the record, I pursued him. I was crazy about him (as only teenaged girls can be), and knew that he was "the one". It took him two months to concur. :hilarious:
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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StarWarsGirl95 said:
My parents dated for two years. They had planned on dating for a few more years and then get married after my mom finished college, but circumstances changed that. My mom's parents pulled her college fund after she continued to date my father. They weren't happy with her life choices, even though she wasn't making bad choices; she was making choices different from what they wanted. My grandparents (well, mostly grandmother) were very controlling. And then my dad was living with his father, and his father told him he had to move out as soon as he graduated from law school, even though my dad had no job lined up. My step-grandmother most likely had something to do with that. My dad was planning on job hunting through the summer and then moving out once he had saved up some money. My grandfather dropped the bomb on him a few weeks before he graduated. Financially, my dad needed a roommate, and my mom needed to get out of her mother's house because her mother was making life hell for her. And they weren't going to live together without being married (for religious reasons). So they got married earlier than they had intended to. It took them years before they had saved up enough for a house, and then they fixed up the house before they were ready for kids.

Sad thing is that my grandparents did not come to my mother's wedding. They were so against it that they absolutely refused. And my grandfathers were friends! From college! My paternal grandfather spent over an hour on the phone with my maternal grandfather begging them to come to their wedding. Nope. After my grandmother died, my mother reestablished relations with her father, and my grandfather now approves of my father (which since my mother is the only one of his children not divorced...yeah)
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Ha! I love that story.
 
Eric1955

Eric1955

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StarWarsGirl95 said:
Some girls prefer quieter personalities. I know I do. I would sooner date a shy guy who worked up a lot of courage to ask me out than some guy who came over to me and started hitting on me. Best thing you can do, quite honestly, is to be a gentleman. No matter how feminist a woman may say she is, she always likes it when a guy holds a door for her. And for me personally, that means watching your language (I had a crush on a guy in high school. He was gorgeous and very sweet. He dropped the f bomb one time, and that was it. I was done. I don't even remember his name now), looking at my eyes, not my chest (or butt) when I'm talking to you, and listening to what I have to say.

But don't look at it as, "I'm single and it sucks." Think of it as, "I'm single and it's a great opportunity." There's so much you can do while you're single that you can't do in a relationship. You have to think of the other person. And when you're single, you don't. It's also an opportunity to experience life. And when you've done all that, you'll have much more to bring to a relationship. And when you're not desperate to be in a relationship, you're 10x more attractive.

You've got time yet. Being single could be great for a while. :)
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I'm hopelessly old fashioned so the gentlemen part is no problem for me.

Your story reminds me of a girl I liked for a long time in school. The next year we had a class where she sat right next to me. I found out she had a really foul mouth and after that she somehow didn't seem as pretty.

Being single wouldn't be so bad I guess if I had more friends. But being shy makes that hard too. I have a hard time finding people with similar interests. For some reason most people don't want to talk about Disney all the time. I don't get it.;)

I usually don't have much in common with people my own age. I guess that's why on Wednesday nights at church I always end up sitting at the old people's table eating and talking with them.
 
MOXOMUMD

MOXOMUMD

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Gabe1 said:
I'm so excited for you! As a friend of mine says, it is getting so close you can lick it! Is your DD over the top excited?
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She is. She's ready to be away from school. Her teacher is retiring and since returning from Christmas break has assumed the "I hate children" attitude. After bringing it up at conferences she's been even more a terror and told my daughter she would be in trouble for taking Friday off because the airlines changed our flight times. :rolleyes: We just are muddling through until the end of the year.
 

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