Divorce ...Is it really the fix one hopes for?

[SloMoJo]

Well......funny story.

Yea ...Here's to better days bud.

[jonKranked]

I wish I could marry beer and bacon

Almost 5 years married and 1.5 kids for me, things are good. We were together for 5 before we got married.

Are you counting the dog as the half kid or is there something you haven't announced yet?

[CBJ]

I wish I could marry beer and bacon.

You can but then you become this guy

[kazlx]

Ask for a FICO score on the first date. Anything less than ~700, RUN!

I actually did that. For realz.

FWIW, I like my wife. I dunno about you guys, but as you get older and go to more weddings, it seems to get easier to pick out the train wrecks and the ones that actually have a chance of working it out. I really doubt that if something ever happened, that I would re-marry.

[jimmydean]

Seeing Joe's disaster of a first, mistake of a second, and shouldn't have done third, I am even more reluctant myself and he's 10 years younger than me.

But military deployments are hell on a relationship. Few survive unscathed.

[stosh]

Not everyone can find the perfect wife like MBC did.

WTF


You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Westy again.

[Da Peach]

WTF


You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Westy again.

Yeah... I know. Heh. That was a pretty damned good one.

[jimmydean]

Been married 10 years now to Wife #1...

Word of advise:
Don't refer to "current wife" as "Wife #1".

I don't like referring to mine as ex1/ex2 and often call ex2 "my wife" just because I got tired of saying "my ex-wife".

[DirtyMike]

My ex wife tries to kill me in ht process of her mental breaking down in the end of the relationship.... i still care unfortunately, but at the same time I will run like a scared little girl if I see the slightest resemblance in anyone I date. I hope the best for that crazy effin cant understand normal things of a woman, but I will not drive the bat**** crazy road again.....

As for getting married again???? Hell thats going to take a hell of an effort from any woman to get me on board with that.....

[Quo Fan]

First marriage was when I was 20. Lasted about 2 years. Second was 5 years later, lasted about on and an half. Last one nearly 20 years later. Knew I wanted to marry her 3 months in, but waited till 3 years to ask, because I know I usually do something incredibly stupid.

[AngryMetalsmith]

Since I make wedding bands I am often confused for a relationship councilor. I assure you, I am under-qualified for this function. And I have witnessed some strange behavior from couples over the years. Many times I have wanted to tell the guy, "run, run like hell dude", but that would be unprofessional.

A couple of years ago I made a high end gold and opal engagement ring for a young gymnast hottie and her airline pilot fiance. They broke up before I could complete the job. He decided that if she still wanted the ring then she could pay the balance. About five weeks later the asshole comes in and picks up the ring. I do not like getting caught in the middle of some couple's BS. It happens way too often.

Some guys will commission me to make rings with the intent of saving the relationship, it never does.

But for every 20 dysfunctional mis-matched couples I work with, there is one that makes it all worth it. These good folks are the ones that restore a little faith in humanity for me.

[norbar]

Unless your relationship is like being syamise twins and you never leave you have to face the fact that people change. Especially if they do anything else than work and raise the kids. That's why long relationships over a very long period of time rarely work in modern times.

[jimmydean]

"run, run like hell dude", but that would be unprofessional.

And yet so appreciated.

I had a very nice custom ring made for the prude. When we called it off, she threw it at me during a good fight and I should have put it in my pocket. I put it on the counter and that was the last time I saw it. I hope she at least kept it, but I should have sold it for meth.

[zdubyadubya]

Depends on who you find. I definitely think JimmyDean has a point about marrying young, but I think it is more the young female than the young guy. I started dating this girl at 20, got married at 21 (after living together through all four seasons), had 1st kid at 23 and second at 25. We have now been married for 6 years and I can honestly say that the relationship, the sex, the conversations, and really everything about the marriage is better right now than it has ever been the entire relationship. Key? Wife is 5 years older than me.

[jimmydean]

Depends on who you find. I definitely think JimmyDean has a point about marrying young, but I think it is more the young female than the young guy. I started dating this girl at 20, got married at 21 (after living together through all four seasons), had 1st kid at 23 and second at 25. We have now been married for 6 years and I can honestly say that the relationship, the sex, the conversations, and really everything about the marriage is better right now than it has ever been the entire relationship. Key? Wife is 5 years older than me.

Nice!

My first was a year older, second was 2 years older. The main bitch about both my ex'es is they are both hawt as hell at 42/43 vs. some of the single ladies out there in their mid to early 30's.

I look good as hell for 41.