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PCIntern

(25,584 posts) Thu Apr 3, 2014, 06:58 PM Apr 2014

Today's quote: "I'm not happy until he's unhappy."

Heard this from one of my ladies here today referring to her husband...

I don't think she was kidding.

My all-time favorite has yet to be beaten: a lady was telling me about her friend, aged about 70 who had just lost her husband of 46 years, "she was a widow before she would have preferred to have been."

Oh yes...and the men are WORSE. They say stuff that makes me cringe. One guy couldn't for the life of him figure out why his wife held a grudge for his extramarital "misbehavior" which had occurred "some time ago". I asked him how long it had been. His reply, "A couple of months."

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Today's quote: "I'm not happy until he's unhappy." (Original Post) PCIntern Apr 2014 OP

And vice versa angstlessk Apr 2014 #1

Yeah, but they're not creative enough to come up with that... PCIntern Apr 2014 #2

"she was a widow before she would have preferred to have been" angstlessk Apr 2014 #5

You should hang out with more Sicilians. Then you'd hear some things. nt msanthrope Apr 2014 #3

Sadly, not all marriages are good ones and even the good ones can be torpedoed Warpy Apr 2014 #4

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)

1. And vice versa

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Thu Apr 3, 2014, 07:01 PM

Apr 2014

some men are not happy till their spouse is unhappy...

PCIntern

(25,584 posts)

2. Yeah, but they're not creative enough to come up with that...

Reply to angstlessk (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 3, 2014, 07:03 PM

Apr 2014

they're pretty dull for the most part. Take it from me.

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)

5. "she was a widow before she would have preferred to have been"

Reply to PCIntern (Reply #2)

Thu Apr 3, 2014, 07:07 PM

Apr 2014

If she had said "she was a widow after she would have preferred to have been" that would be adversarial

msanthrope

(37,549 posts)

3. You should hang out with more Sicilians. Then you'd hear some things. nt

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Thu Apr 3, 2014, 07:06 PM

Apr 2014

Warpy

(111,339 posts)

4. Sadly, not all marriages are good ones and even the good ones can be torpedoed

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Thu Apr 3, 2014, 07:06 PM

Apr 2014

by alcoholism, addiction, illness, and sudden poverty. A lot of people realize they've grown so far apart while they were bringing the kids up that they don't like each other at all. They stay together because it would be financial suicide for one or both to leave the marriage.

In addition, once you hit that three score and ten, you tell it like it is. You don't bother sugar coating anything because you just no longer give a damn what people think.

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