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haha.. I don't really have criteria.. if I find them incredible.. then I'll commit..
I personally know RIGHT AWAY if someone is gonna work.. everyone that has lasted past a few dates, I have fallen in love with. My problem is that I can could picture myself LONG TERM with every guy i've seriously dated. Unfortunately I dont' think I discriminate well enough. haha
My criteria is that I'm in love with them.. then i'll settle down.
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Ok, maybe I shouldn't have made it sound like the stories were THAT interesting, LOL! But I really don't mind talking about it at all, so...
My first marriage was one big fat hairy mistake.  I was 19, he was 21, and I have no idea what the hell I was thinking. The first 6 months of our marriage were bliss. Then he lost his job, became alcoholic, and turned terribly abusive. It took me a year and a half to work up the guts to leave him, but one day, I just left, with whatever I could fit in my car. He stalked me for a few months afterwards, including one semi-serious attempt on my life, but thankfully, he met someone else quickly and left me alone after that.
My second marriage was a little more normal, but only slightly. I was 25, he was... quite a bit older. (*cough37cough*) Unlike the first time around, we never had the 6 months of bliss; everything was fine until, literally, the honeymoon was over. There was no abuse, it was just very obvious that it was another huge mistake. We tried to work things out, but it was really just not happening. He was (and had been for some time, I felt) hopelessly in love with a friend of his, whom he claimed was a lesbian, and one day just said that he couldn't be married to me anymore. At the time, I was unemployed and having a hard time finding work... so with no income, I still lived with him for almost 5 months, while he was dating the "lesbian" to whom he's now married... that was rough on the ol' ego, let me tell you.
Hmm, come to think of it, my serious relationships read kind of like a Jerry Springer episode, huh? ROFL!
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ACK!!! Jamie, you changed your picture!!!! Where's my favorite pilot? Did you kidnap him??!!  Just kiddin', cutie!!
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Confession time: I've even been married and divorced *twice*.
Casey, that's nothing!! My grandmother was married and divorced twice -- to the SAME MAN!!
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#88748 - 07/11/04 12:52 PM
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Aw, Casey, that's a darn shame. Life certainly has a funny way of playing tricks on us huh?
The guy my grandma married twice (my biological grandfather), both times she threw him out and divorced him for drinking and cheating on her. My mom says they used to have fights when he came home drunk where Gram would be literally throwing every plate in the kitchen at his damn head.
Anyway, her story had a happy ending. After one more short marriage to a guy with red hair and the last name Cherry (yeah , you got it, he was known as "Red" Cherry -- I'm NOT making this up), anyway, after Red, she met the nicest man, Lloyd Ellis, at work. They were both in their 40's, he'd never been married, had been in the service, worked as a railroad engineer in a good union job. He adored my grandma, they got married just before I was born, and I grew up knowing Lloyd as "Pa," my beloved grandpa.
They lived happily ever after in a beautiful house on a lake until Lloyd's death of a heart attack in 1977. When my Gram was getting senile she used to tell me that Pa had been there that day to visit her in the nursing home. That still makes me cry.
So everybody out there on this thread, BELIEVE IN MIRACLES!! One happened for my grandma.
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In between marriage #1 and marriage #2, I met a guy named Adam. The relationship didn't end badly, exactly, I just didn't take any of it seriously, and eventually, we lost touch altogether.
Four years went by, during which time marriage #2 happened and ended. I'd been wondering about him, where and how he was, and on a whim, I found him online and dropped him a quick note to say hi. That was last summer. Long story short, I moved in with him in September (which involved moving from NY to Maine), and it seriously just gets better and better every day.
I liked your grandma's story. I love happy endings.  That bit about her in the nursing home made me tear up, too!
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You don't like the new pic?
Here, how about just for you I'll put on my uniform (first the 'whites' and then the flightsuit) take lots of pictures and then send them to you? Or better yet, I'll send and extra uniform then you can get your husband to dress up for you.
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Okay, I've only had one Jack. (Okay, damnit, two.) But I ain't by any means snockered -- okay, I'm feelin pretty good -- but damnitalltohell, there ain't no picture there!
Is it me? Hey everyone -- do you see a picture there? What the hell happened to Jamie's picture?!
Whaddya mean, "new picture," LS? There's nothing there!
Okay, I've had too much Jack......
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LOL!
#88796 - 07/11/04 04:34 PM
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It took a few seconds to load, but it's there now. Try again! It's a *fantastic* new picture of Jamie. 
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LOL, Jamie!! I dunno, I'm not sure I'm ready for the sight of Andy in a uniform!! If you knew him, you'd be afraid....you'd be VERY afraid....!!!
Besides I NEVER said I didn't like the new pic! Re-read my post. You're misquoting and distorting what I said, gorgeous!! I'm just not good with change, even change for the better! Just had to give you a wee bit of grief, so you know I still love ya!!
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