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Beat ya to it 11 () posts earlier, but I'm glad I'm not the only one who was reminded of that. The spirit of Nigel Tufnel apparently lives on in some of the posters on this thread.
<shudder> That course was fascinating, but almost my undoing.
Anyway, while I said 10 now, my first marriage was mostly a 1 or 2. "Lucky" me, having experienced both extremes! And of course those times when I had no relationship at all, which I suppose on this scale is a 1 - about the same as that first marriage. Hmm. Yeah, that's about right.
Beat ya to it 11 () posts earlier, but I'm glad I'm not the only one who was reminded of that. The spirit of Nigel Tufnel apparently lives on in some of the posters on this thread.
1 isn't a number that describes my romantic life, since it's non-existent, so it can't be a 1.
Also, my left shift key sometimes doesn't work. This kind of irks me.
Further reiterating that you don't understand how this scale works. If you were in an exam with a question that you HAD to put an answer, would you go up to the teacher and say: These numbers don't describe my romantic life?
I voted 6. Things are pretty good now but they sucked in high school and college. I feel that with time, it'll probably go up to 8 or 9, but there's still much to do on this earth. I'm 26, yet I can count the people I've slept with on one hand (only 5), the ones I've had good sex with (only 2), and there has been only one truly good relationship so far. Still I should be so grateful those numbers aren't zero. For many people even my age one of those numbers often still is zero.
Even though that good relationship is the one I'm in right now, I don't feel like I've found my "life partner" yet (great as this person is), and I'm skeptical that I'm the type of person who's even capable of having that. I'm actually a bit concerned about my ability to hold down any relationship for the long term. I kinda just want to be a huge s-l-u-t and get it out of my system first; that's what college should've been, but it wasn't. So now I'm sort of stuck getting into serious relationships, knowing full well this feeling of needing to "experience the world" is going to force me to break a few hearts before I'm finally in the mood to settle down.
So now I'm sort of stuck getting into serious relationships, knowing full well this feeling of needing to "experience the world" is going to force me to break a few hearts before I'm finally in the mood to settle down.
Not to go OT or anything, but the quoted portion above is one reason I have always personally believed that men and women should ideally get into serious relationships and marry when they are younger, not older. Marrying a life partner at say 22-24 rather than 30-35, for example...JMHO though...I mean, why should a guy have to wait to get married at 30+ if he can already potentially meet and marry Ms. Right at 24?
Gee, I dunno, maybe because he can have another decade of fun and freedom, and a lower chance of divorce when he does get married?
Those are all certainly valid points, if that is the priority of the individual guy in question. I am not disagreeing with the idea that the guy should act in his own best interest. Please keep in mind though, the priority of another type of guy might be to have and be able to spend an extra decade with the woman that he loves...having the love of that special person, 10 years earlier rather than later, could also be a potential priority, depending on the specific guy's emotional needs
Not to go OT or anything, but the quoted portion above is one reason I have always personally believed that men and women should ideally get into serious relationships and marry when they are younger, not older. Marrying a life partner at say 22-24 rather than 30-35, for example...JMHO though...I mean, why should a guy have to wait to get married at 30+ if he can already potentially meet and marry Ms. Right at 24?
I think it depends on the couple. My parents got married right out of high school and they're still married. For me, however, I've changed SO MUCH since I was in my early 20s that if I had been married I can almost guarantee I'd be divorced by now. My priorities have shifted, my personality has changed and I really have become a more mature person. I don't know many 22-24 year olds that are mature enough to hold on to a career much less a husband or wife.
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) posts earlier, but I'm glad I'm not the only one who was reminded of that. The spirit of Nigel Tufnel apparently lives on in some of the posters on this thread.
That'll teach me to read threads backwards.
