by hope_full » Sun 30 Nov 2008, 08:00:15
Strider said,
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')f course you could always just find a decent wife in the first case.
I had numerous tests for my wife before we married. Some included little things like home made lasagna from scratch. Some where more extreme like manning the cement mixer while I poured the slab.
I figure anyone that's willing to load and mix 5 yards of concrete by hand is probably not going to bail when times get tough.
I wish more men thought like you. I'm a old-fashioned girl who can fix cars (two years of auto-tech at vocational school), cook from scratch (thanks to an old-fashioned Mom), build lots of things (always wanted to take wood shop), and I currently maintain my old house mostly by myself (with a little help from the hubby).
I have a background in architecture and I'm one of the handiest people I know.
Back in the day, I was a journalist with a dreamy career and much worldly recognition for my good work.
But when I was a visitor to the world of internet dating world (less than three years ago), I was rejected time and time again because I wasn't what the world would define as "beautiful." When you're in your 40s, there are too many 40-something and 50-something foolish men who judge women by nothing more than their physical beauty.
They richly deserve their trophy wives - who need only a financial set-back to go into nasty toxic mode. When will men learn that - for the most part - beauty queens are not women of substance? And vice versa? Not to mention, age is the great leveler. Unless you're planning to trade her in every 15 years, your beauty queen will grow old and wrinkled one day.
You know what the 1950s bard sang? "If you want to be happy for the rest of your life, never make a pretty woman your wife. So for my personal point of view, get an ugly girl to marry you..."
That song may not be politically correct, but it speaks a trenchant truth: Women who've had to rely on something other than their looks are a lot more interesting to spend a lifetime with.
Look at the women our great-grandfathers married. Before the MSM brainwashed us into thinking that all women must have a "certain look," women were judged more by their character and integrity and skills. Looks were unimportant. I believe those days will come again.