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Love Advice -- My Boyfriend's a Cheating Fool {Lemondrop}
Nov 15th 2009 6:19AM I was involved in a relaitonshape with a fireman (should have been my first cliue) that he was separated from his wife and they were divorcing. I met him in Baja, MX during a bicycle ride. We were both the same age, and he loved doing all the same outdoor things I did. He even got my daughter a Halloween card which I thought was a nice thought and when he wasn't working his shifts, he was at my house after he went to see his three kids and would soon be at my house waiting for me.
Then wifey poo figured out he wasn't begging to come back, he called me and said he had something to show me. Right away I knew what it was, it was full of I am sorry I treated you so badly all these years, but want you back. Why he showed it to me was horrible. I could care less about how she felt, and even worse that I believed him and how well we got along. He asked if he could call me and I thought about it and said he could call, but that was all.
I did miss him and don't believe in infidelity, but called him and said I couldn't take not seeing him, my second big mistake. We saw each other for two more months, when we went on a ski trip, taking HER CAR instead of my 4 X 4 truck. As I waited for him to get gas, I knew I didn't have the strength to leave him, and noticed my purse had fallen open and my checkbook laid in front of me. I took a deposit ticket, tore it in half with my name on it, and put the other half in my purse. She found it like I knew she would, and that ended that.
What angers me most about women judging women who get involved with separated or married men, is we have no way to find out for sure what he is telling us is the truth. We even went to the Dodgers game when they last won the title in 1988, and he slowly pulled me away from where they were taping people going in saying he wanted to get in so we could get settled. He didn't want his wife nor kids seeing us together.
They forget we didn't take the wedding vows, he did with her, and because of my beliefs and knew what I was doing was wrong, I ended it right then and there. If he was doing it to her, if we had got together, would he do it to me? The answer is probably yes, she may have won the war, but I won the biggest battle of all, the loss of trust. It hurt, but I knew seeing him after he went back to her was wrong, and it hurt when I knew I had to end our relationship, as he seemed to have his cake and eat it too. One of his friends who was also a fireman told us (there were three of us who drove down from Los Angeles), he liked to meet women down there sometimes for a fun time. Clue number one I had forgotten about. It hurt not to see him, but would have hurt more if we had gone on longer playing his game.
So before women judge those of us who get involved with men who tell us they are separated, after all, when he wasn't working, he was with me, I did believe they were going through a divorce. He was lamenting about all the wood shelves he built in the house, poot baby. Remember we didn't take the wedding vows with him, he did with a wife who didn't want him, that was until she figured out he wasn't begging to come home. Kind of a wake up call to her, when we went water skiing in MY boat, and snow skiing in the winter. Things she didn't like to do, and what was breaking them up. So don't blame us for breaking them apart, he was the one doing the breaking apart when she made it clear he could only come to the house to get his clothes or see their kids. I knew I could not compete with 17 years of marriage and three kids, and did what I knew was the right thing to do, leave the cheater for someone else and I am sure, by then she had her hooks back into him again, making him miserable, they deserved each other. I certainly learned my lesson, the hard way, but better to have it break up before I got hurt anymoe and he would be in a miserable marriage.
Michelle Duggar: The Ultimate Reality TV Mom's Parenting Tips {ParentDish}
Jun 27th 2009 2:19PM There are 18 children and youir post Rpsie was great. They don't "expect": the older children to raise the younger children, but only that they help in the home, and if it means changing a baby diaper or giving younger siblings baths, then so be it. These kids all know they are loved, they have been homeschooled, which I don't always thnk is a good idea because there is often little interface, but because they have so many kids, they have plenty of children to play wth. These kids are healthy, happy and know they are loved and are nothing like the Gossinglings. Each one was wanted and the family gets to choose the name of the next little one due.
Like Michelle says, her child bearng years are probably coming to an end in a few short years and the older a Mother gets, the higher the risk of an infant being born with Down's Syndrome.
The kids all dress so great and dob't seem to resent having to help Mom with the younger ones, and I think that is why their oldest son and new wife, know they will have plenty of help when they have their baby.
Before the 20th century, most families were always big and the younger children were expected to help with the younger ones. Both of my parents came from families where there were six children on each side. It helps teach them responsibility along with them realizing the world does not revolve around each child but around the family as a whole. I enjoy watching the interplay between the parents and children. She always has a smile on her face, she never gets a flustered by her children, never yells or threatens to go crazy like Kate does every week.
Because young people who watch this show find it unusual the older kids help with the younger kids, read about 18th and 19th century families and you will learn back then boys were expected to help with the farm or family. Perjaps many of you are just jealous of such a happy familg
Spokesperson fiasco #6: Kirstie Alley and Jenny Craig {BloggingStocks}
Jul 19th 2008 12:17PM Jenny Craig's diet only works when you are on it because it's their food, it's prepackaged, and to be honest, tastes terrible. People on diets need to find ones that allow "real food", foods that don't cause their body to gain weight and learning to eat properly, like six meals a day, and I don't mean food piled on the plate, but well portioned food.
I really related to the person who said she had always been thin until she became ill and gained 100 lbs. I was in great shape from being physically active, until I got struck down by two chronic pain sydromes, and one prevents me from even taking a daily walk due to the damage it's caused one of my feet.
I will agree that nothing turns me off more than when I see someone over 300 lbs. squeezing into a booth to eat a meal for four people, as that weight is their problem.
There are people like me who have very slow metabolisms, and when you get slammed with an illness, the weight is on you before you realize it. I keep hearing on TV to exercise this, walk this many miles, but what if your body can't due to your illness?? What are you supposed to do then?
Learn to eat better I am learning and eat proper foods, no fattening baked potatoes smothered in butter (yes I used to be guilty of that) but not any longer. I am eating lean chicken, turkey and all the fish I want.
So please don't look at someone overweight and assume they eat everything but the kitchen sink. I rarely eat candy, have never liked chocolate, thankfully. If you see them eat for four people at one time, then one can say it is their fault, but if their plate is one with small portions and healthy food, you know they are trying, so be supportive, not judgemental. And not everyone has the same metabolism. I went to HS with a gal who could out eat the guys, and years later, she is far heavier than I am. As we age, our metabolism slows down, and for some of us like me, mine has always been slow, and yes my Thyroid tests are normal, I just have a slow metabolism when it comes to food.
At least Kirstie tried, and she lost 75 lbs, although towards the end of her year, I could see she was putting it back on slowly. You just can't eat those prepackaged diet plans.
They are costly when you have to eat their awful tasting food. and when I told them I am lactose intolerant, they almost didn't take me, as you have to drink milk, which I have never liked as a child as it gave me a stomach ache. My mother could never figure out why her house plants anways died, LOL, I somehow figured out plants don't like milk either.
Ignore the world Kirstie and live your own life for you.
Court to Brit's Daddy: Stick Around Pop! {TMZ}
Mar 6th 2008 12:05AM I do not see how living with a Father she has never gotten along with is going to improve her mental status? I would find a Psychiatrist if I were her, that she felt she could trust, as we have all seen the power they have over a patient. What young Mother would not freak out having her boys taken away, although I applaud their Father for letting her see them. She needs positive people around her, not a Father she has never had a real relationship with and I hope the Court's have set a limit on the amount of HER money he can spend and on what. He sounds like a loer. She is one of those young stars who went to the top too fast, got rich too fast and now she is paying for it. I hope he leaves before July and she is left wth her new husband. And that she is allowed regular visits with her sons.
Leave Mike Huckabee Alone! {Politics Daily}
Mar 2nd 2008 7:09PM Hang in there Mike Huckabee. You may just win the bid by default, because of McCain being born in Panama. My son was born in Japan, on a military base hospital, to a man in the Navy and a new, stay at home Mom. We were told and given paperwork with each child's birth, that there were two things they could never do and (1) was become President of the US and (2) hold either an FCC or FAA license. I have forgotten the second one. Every couple that had a child born in the military hospital was given that information, therefore, MCCain cannot legally run for the office of President. I am sure his parents were given the same information we were.
When Should Hillary Clinton Drop Out? {Politics Daily}
Feb 22nd 2008 12:42AM DAVID SMITH, regarding your comment, in case you haven't noticed, people have come out in record numbers in every state, which hasn't happened I think since the Reagan years, when he took the nation by a landslide. Hawaii has never had this many people come out and Democrats are well known for staying in when the weather is bad, but it hasn't kept any home. The Democratic Party is tearing itself apart by bringing up the "Super Delegates" which I think should be banned. Let's SEE HOW AMERICA VOTES, and then should their State delegate count be so close, the Super Delegates be the last ditch, wait and see what the POPULAR VOTE is. It started out with blacks voting for Obama and women voting for Clinton, both for the very wrong reason, but as we hear him talk, more and more Americans are realizing he is THE candidate, and the only one who can beat McCain.
Plus there are a lot of Republicans, including myself who think McCain is a loose cannon and would have us in a war with N. Korea, Iran and China given the opportunity.
Why is Hillary Clinton so blantantly fighting showing her Tax Returns? Only people who have something to hide do what she is doing, not to mention Bill Clinton's, successful battle, so far anyway, to withhold 10,000 pages of documents on good ole Hillary. What is she hiding that he doesn't want the people of the United States to see, and I would think if she is touting being so open and honest, why is she being just the opposite?
There are a lot of Americans who have not forgotten Bill Clinton's infidelity to her, in the White House no less. Nor have a lot of us forgotten White Water, and are we going to wind up with a Co-Presidency if she is elected as the Dem Candidate? And if she were not the wife of Bill Clinton she would have been laughed out of being a candidate long ago, whe is riding his coat tails merely because he has some kind of charisma some Americans can't separate her from him.
Out of the top three candidates, Obama is going to come out on top. Don't forget all the States where we are forced to vote as we are Registered, like in California, which is a delegate rich state, and I, for one will not for for McCain. There is a lot about him that has not come out yet, and he has a long history in the Senate of losing his temper in an instant, and wife, always looks to him as if for permission to speak. She reminds me of a Barby Doll, and McCain is her sugar daddy. What is her background? I don't even know because I have never heard her speak, except to say "I have always been proud to be an American" and I sincerely believe Michelle Obama's words came out not like she intended. It's called open mouth, insert foot, and there isn't a person in this world that hasn't done it at least once in their lifetime. And I have always voted a straight Republican ticket, until this year, and my vote won't be for McCain nor Clinton.
Hillary hasn't even talked to General Petreus in Iraq and Afghanistan nor military advisors who openly say it would be an impossible task to bring our troops home in 60 days and Obama seems to be the only one who realizes that and has set a sixteen month timne line. What they say and want, certainly will not be what they spouted during the campaign, because everyone seems to forget without Congress backing them, like Congress letting the time frame for tapping phone lines expire. They can say all they want and INTEND TO DO, but unless Congress agress with them, it "ain't gonna happen."
And why should we vote if the Delegates make the choice for the candidate? Why should we vote if the Electoral College makes the ultimate decision, the 2004 election is a prime example of that. Bush didn't win with the popular vote if I remember correctly, but the Electoral College did, but I may be mistaken on that point. America needs to get rid of deletages and the Electoral College and listen to how Americans vote.
Obama Closing Gap in Texas, Ohio {Politics Daily}
Feb 20th 2008 5:43AM There is a huge number of voters who had to vote as Registered in their parties, particularly in California, along many states, that I believe will not vote as a Republican, but as an American who has had it with the current regime in the White House.
I have always voted a straight Republican ticket for the Presidency, however, this year I will be voting for Barack Obama.
Hearing Clinton talking about being "Commander in Chief" on day one, as if she can make all the problems completely disappear. I grew up as a military brat for twenty years, and then was a Military wife for ten years.
So many Americans find Hillary Clinton as devious as her husband and why won't she show her Tax Returns? Not only that, Clinton's husband has been fighting successfully to keep 10,000 pages on her wife from being released according to the Freedom of Information Act, and has also been successful so far. Why is she being so protected? She wasn't even granted a Security Clearance when Bill Clinton was President. Why? They were devious, Bill Clinton lied, along with his wife during his eight year reign in the White House. His infidelity to his wife didn't seem to bother many Americans, but I found both of them disgusting. She should have left him, but she stayed with him because she wanted to run for the White House. Gee, it's too bad she won't be elected, thank God.
As more time progresses, she only raises more questions than answers.I truly believe there will be a landslide election in November, with Obama pulling ahead more than anyone expects. I am a divorced, white, disabled American woman, and find Clinton's "first day in office" garbage she spews out ridiculous. McCain is a man well known to be out of control. Do we need a President like that?
I believe it will be an exciting, and surprising election, with Obama coming out on top. No one seems to address the middle class White Man who has lost his company or job, because our government sent our work to cheaper labor overseas.
And there are a lot of them out there. Along with baby boomers who have just plain had it, particularly if you are disabled and on Social Security and our out of pocket Medicare HMO costs seem to keep increasing, along with our cost of living, and many people are having to choose between food or medication, including myself at times. I don't want a National, Universal Health Care Plan. When the government gets involved, it only costs more and the care will become worse. Talk to anyone in Canada, England and Austtralia about their lack of adequate medical care.
America will awake to a brand new US after the national election in November. And I guarantee it won't be a bitter, mean spirited McCain, nor a lying, deceiving Clinton.
Britney and the Grim Reaper {News Bloggers}
Feb 7th 2008 5:53AM When you are at a stress level like she is, her two sons have been taken away from her to the point she can't even see them, it will drive some women to an emotional point, they can't deal with life or anything else. And as for her Psychiatrist, once they put you in a Psych unit for a 5150 for 72 hours, if she acts nervous for any reason or say, while sitting, shakes her legs in anxiety, they have the right to keep her for 14 more days and at that point, all she has to tell the Judge that is brought in, "I am sane", by law, she has to be released. I think perhaps she needs a new Psychiatrist. Psychiatrists have more power than people realize, having worked in a hospital and learned from Psych Techs what exactly goes on in a Psych Unit. Being locked up, with no phone, except for the pay phone they have for everyone to use, no television nor a private phone, for fear of a suicide is cruel. And to read she is in a padded room, from what was told in the news. they don't even have a bed. That's enough to make anyone crazy.
She needs to be in a warm, caring environment, where she can work on her problems with her parents support, not in a padded cell. But she has money, so they will find ways to keep her. I am not saying she doesn't need help, but she is not getting the kind she needs and the drugs they give her, may actually make her worse when reading about psych drugs. She is caught between a rock and a hard place and as a mother, my heart goes out to her.
Hillary Clinton's 35 Years of Experience? {Politics Daily}
Feb 5th 2008 2:00AM To Kitty, who do you think has been padding the news about Clinton, besides herself, the news. But Obama is now neck and neck with her and I can't wait to see the results Tuesday night.
Tom, I loved your post, it was great. My ex was an
Electronics Technician as was my Father in the Navy, so I was exposed to two men for a total of twenty seven years, but do you think I know beans about Electronics? No, I can plug the TV in and even hook up the DVD or old fashioned VHS player. Oh yea, I even hooked up my off road lights to my 4x4 truck after I got divorced, but I don't know beans about electronic technicians and what they do. So I believe Hilary has padded her resume just a tad too much. Do the research on all the jobs she has held and you will be surprisingly surprised.
So being married to a President or a Senator or Governor does not make the spouse, unless you happen to have the skills to fill their slot should they die, like happened with Sonny Bono, but his wife is a worthless replacement. I have written her several times regarding Bills in the House of Representatives and have never received a response once. Have heard from both Senators Boxer and Feinstein though. Go figure. Guess I will have to make an appointment with someone in her office in the town I live in where she has an office.
Vote after educating yourself about each candidate before voting. Read all you can, even if some of it is trash. Being an educated voter is the best voter.
Obama Tsunami Building? Poll Updates {Politics Daily}
Feb 5th 2008 1:40AM To Kick Azz, the reason Obama didn't vote for the US going into Iraq was because he wasn't a Senator at that point in time. Do your homework before making such a stupid statement.
