I found the right person due to this community. Still in our first year of marriage but consider that I didn't ever really plan to get married at all. When it is the right one then it just is the right one.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
NoiseDesign - Jun 14, 2010 11:27:46 am PDT #22424 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
Nora Deirdre - Jun 14, 2010 11:49:47 am PDT #22425 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
And maybe *I'll* ask.
Whoo hoo! I highly recommend!
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Jun 14, 2010 11:53:31 am PDT #22426 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I take great comfort in the fact that no one has ever asked me to marry them, and if things go according to plan, no one ever will. (I asked The Girl. Repeatedly. Including one serious 'keep ignoring this question and you will not get asked it anymore' proposal involving a very romantic picnic on Clapham Common with a treasure hunt to get her there. She then pretended, for the most painful five minutes of my life, that she didn't have a ring to give me in return for the one I gave her. Fortunately, she produced one before I could kill her with a fork.)
billytea - Jun 14, 2010 11:57:41 am PDT #22427 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
So did anyone else marry the first person who asked?
I've had three girlfriends and married two of them. I'm pretty sure I've married everyone who ever wanted to.
§ ita § - Jun 14, 2010 12:02:45 pm PDT #22428 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm pretty sure I've married everyone who ever wanted to.
That's a very completist stat.
meara - Jun 14, 2010 12:08:46 pm PDT #22429 of 30000
Other than the occasional shouted-from-stoop "ooh, baby, wanna marry me?", which I don't think really counts, no one has ever asked. And I have not asked. Division by zero batting average, ahoy!
billytea - Jun 14, 2010 12:35:28 pm PDT #22430 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
That's a very completist stat.
I'm thinking of changing my business cards. I'll delete all my qualifications and replace them with "Outlier".
beth b - Jun 14, 2010 12:53:44 pm PDT #22431 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Congratulations Connie and DH
Hil R. - Jun 14, 2010 12:54:16 pm PDT #22432 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm getting panicky. Do not like this. And there's nothing I can actually do, because everything that's stressing me out is now at a point where either I need to wait for someone else to do something, or I just need to wait a few days until when the next thing can happen.
askye - Jun 14, 2010 1:34:02 pm PDT #22433 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
I've never been proposed to. Although the mom of 1 of my serious boyfriends referred to me as her Future Daughter in Law.
...also the mom of a guy was kinda seeing thought I should get hitched to her son. Except he wasn't that into me.
SLNRLBF and I have talked about marriage -- actually if things were a bit different in his life he's pretty sure he would have proposed the first time we met. And I would have said yes.