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Why The High Divorce Rate?
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<blockquote data-quote="scratch" data-source="post: 1195336" data-attributes="member: 1674"><p>I read this thread and am amazed at some of the comments. And then there are some that give great advice. </p><p></p><p>I have a younger brother that was married three times and can't rub two nickels together right now because he never learned how to handle money or think of anybody besides himself. He doesn't think its "fair that he is expected to pay child support to a woman who left him". My older brother is with wife number four and doing well. He was 17 when he had to marry his 15 year old girlfriend the first time, you can guess why. They were too young, didn't last long. Second wife was older but already had two kids, lots of fights about disciplining them ended that. Third wife was bi-polar and just plain crazy, they had two daughters. Fourth one is a LSU professor and a keeper. I must be doing something wrong here, I have only been married once for thirty years, including the courting makes it 34 years of being faithful to the same person.</p><p></p><p>Marriage is hard work, we all go through good and bad times. I like to think that we are a team, each of us brings special traits to our relationship that make it stronger. I don't feel that I have to feed my ego by having sex with a different woman, even though that would be so easy to do with the job I have. I completely trust my wife, neither one of us would cheat on each other. We have our arguments like everybody else, but you have to learn how to just let somethings go. You have to learn how to listen to your spouse and compromise on certain things. When you love someone and they love you back, there is no better feeling in the world than that.</p><p></p><p>An interesting thing is that my wife and I joined a couple's group and are studying a book called "The 5 Love Languages" by Gary Chapman. We all have different personalities and men and women look at things differently. This book identifies that there are five types of traits we all share. First is Words of Affirmation, second is Quality Time, third is Receiving Gifts, fourth are Acts of Service, and the final is Physical Touch. Its an interesting book, we had our first meeting last night and its got me thinking about a lot of things as far as communicating with my wife.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scratch, post: 1195336, member: 1674"] I read this thread and am amazed at some of the comments. And then there are some that give great advice. I have a younger brother that was married three times and can't rub two nickels together right now because he never learned how to handle money or think of anybody besides himself. He doesn't think its "fair that he is expected to pay child support to a woman who left him". My older brother is with wife number four and doing well. He was 17 when he had to marry his 15 year old girlfriend the first time, you can guess why. They were too young, didn't last long. Second wife was older but already had two kids, lots of fights about disciplining them ended that. Third wife was bi-polar and just plain crazy, they had two daughters. Fourth one is a LSU professor and a keeper. I must be doing something wrong here, I have only been married once for thirty years, including the courting makes it 34 years of being faithful to the same person. Marriage is hard work, we all go through good and bad times. I like to think that we are a team, each of us brings special traits to our relationship that make it stronger. I don't feel that I have to feed my ego by having sex with a different woman, even though that would be so easy to do with the job I have. I completely trust my wife, neither one of us would cheat on each other. We have our arguments like everybody else, but you have to learn how to just let somethings go. You have to learn how to listen to your spouse and compromise on certain things. When you love someone and they love you back, there is no better feeling in the world than that. An interesting thing is that my wife and I joined a couple's group and are studying a book called "The 5 Love Languages" by Gary Chapman. We all have different personalities and men and women look at things differently. This book identifies that there are five types of traits we all share. First is Words of Affirmation, second is Quality Time, third is Receiving Gifts, fourth are Acts of Service, and the final is Physical Touch. Its an interesting book, we had our first meeting last night and its got me thinking about a lot of things as far as communicating with my wife. [/QUOTE]
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