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babe said:
A little over a week ago, my wife was gonna put the new house she bought out to rent to put herself ahead by about 18 grand a year for a year or two. But when I was showing it to a nice lady who looked Hispanic but whose kids looked Tongan and definitely would be hard to push back an inch, I had visions of those kids literally falling through the walls about every third day. Based on what some of my nephews of the same basic dimensions do. . . .

So I told my wife to just move in to her house already, so once in her life at least she'd have a house that was in good shape. . . .

So she's busy getting ready to move. . .. she's pulled out the carpets and painted the walls (and ceilings). . . . because the place actually has hardwood floors in nice shape.

But all the same, I'm scheduled to drive Santa's sleigh to California for Christmas.

I told her we should have two Chrstmases this year.
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So, you and your wife don't live together? Im a little confused.

Also, why did you mention the race or assumed nationality of the kids when it's their stature that had bearing on their "breaking through the walls?"
 
VINYLONE said:
So, you and your wife don't live together? Im a little confused.

Also, why did you mention the race or assumed nationality of the kids when it's their stature that had bearing on their "breaking through the walls?"
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Hispanic woman with tongan kids. Best to pull it off the market before it's just a pile of sticks.
 
VINYLONE said:
So, you and your wife don't live together? Im a little confused.

Also, why did you mention the race or assumed nationality of the kids when it's their stature that had bearing on their "breaking through the walls?"
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Because nobody would have gotten the picture if I had told the truth, that they were Rhodes Scholars arguing with one another about the best way to make a good bomb.
 
Now that all sports discussion are moved to "General Sports" - I predict that this thread's gonna become a lot more popular.
 
VINYLONE said:
So you're seperated not divorced?
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Some women really don't like their men hanging around when there's work that needs doing. Too much time underfoot is bad for any relationship.

I'm thinking I need to buy a home in California now. When the motel tabs start adding up a house payment every month, it starts to make sense.

Actually, my wife is very autonomous by nature. And so am I.
 
babe said:
oh? I wasn't aware of that. Please expound on this theory. . . .
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Well, previously there were a couple of stickied fantasy sports threads in GD.. now that they are moved to GS I suspect this thread will come up top more often (since it is an ongoing thread), making people curious & wanting to click on it and join in the convo :)
 
babe said:
Some women really don't like their men hanging around when there's work that needs doing. Too much time underfoot is bad for any relationship.

I'm thinking I need to buy a home in California now. When the motel tabs start adding up a house payment every month, it starts to make sense.

Actually, my wife is very autonomous by nature. And so am I.
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There was a funny phenomenon I noticed while I was in the Navy. When the lifers were getting ready to retire and started working on their paperwork they'd all the sudden come to the ship one day and let everyone know their wife just filed for divorce. Turns out, she really couldn't stand the idea of him being home all the time and needed the breaks that his going underway provided. So, she was perfectly happy taking her cut of his pension and moving on with life. Saw some really awesome guys really shaken up from it.
 
Gameface said:
There was a funny phenomenon I noticed while I was in the Navy. When the lifers were getting ready to retire and started working on their paperwork they'd all the sudden come to the ship one day and let everyone know their wife just filed for divorce. Turns out, she really couldn't stand the idea of him being home all the time and needed the breaks that his going underway provided. So, she was perfectly happy taking her cut of his pension and moving on with life. Saw some really awesome guys really shaken up from it.
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Well it's always a choice what we will do any day of our lives.

There are some distinct modes of human relationships as you describe.

Sometimes I question the possibility of something like that, say when the children are gone on their own. Sometimes she has felt that way I am sure.

I think her cancer moved things between us. She's pretty slow to discount me now, on religious reasons, though she still dreams of things like cruises and other activities she imagines she'd enjoy if she had the time. The cancer locked her into her job because of the insurance coverage it provides. Some pretty intense episodes in the course of her cancer I think have changed her ideas about needing me. I imagine those Navy guys you refer to somehow didn't get that "essential to life" tag from their wives. If you want to be needed you just have to make yourself "essential" to that other person.

In my case, I take nothing for granted.
 
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