let’s talk this over, eh ?
June 24, 2017
Beware a Woman Scorned
February 19, 2017
Guy Makes Arse of Himself
guy picked a shopping mall in brazil to pop the question to his girlfriend but . . .
February 12, 2017
Woo with a Loo
villagers in the Indian states of Haryana, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh have adopted a drastic measure in a bid to curb the widespread practice of ‘open defecation’ due to lack of indoor toilets . . .
[in other news, weddings in these states are going to be a lot less fun due to other cost-cutting measures announced at the same meeting]
full details – http://tinyurl.com/jpd8pp4
September 4, 2016
Why Get Married?
something to do with marshmallows, apparently, according to this video . . .
April 9, 2016
Leftover Women
the average age at which a woman gets married varies from country to country and historically over time within the same country
as economic prosperity of a country increases and the status of women within that country improves, e.g., equal access to education and employment opportunities, equal social and political rights, greater economic independence, the age at which women chose to get married has increased
in some cultures, however, a woman is still regarded as ‘incomplete’ unless she has a man
in China, for instance, a woman who has not married by the time she is . . .
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January 25, 2016
Woman Sues ‘Husband’
pre-nuptial agreements have always seemed to me to indicate a certain degree of pessimism about the permanence – despite the ’till death do us part’ bit – of the marriage about to be entered into
makes me wonder why bother if you harbour the least doubt that the marriage is going to be a success ?
a pre-nuptial agreement must also . . .
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January 3, 2016
Grief is Not Transient
it is 6 years to the day since I lost my wife to lung cancer
the pain of that loss has lessened over the years since she died – I no longer cry every day – but it has not entirely disappeared (and it never will !)
there are times, since she died, that I wish I wasn’t an atheist – because I’d sorely love to believe that our parting is just temporary !
https://lifewithmrsd.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/goodbye-my-love/
September 22, 2015
Love is . . .
this vid, capturing a tender moment when 92 yr old ‘toy boy’ Howard sings a love song to the woman he has been married to for 73 years, his dying 93 yr old wife, Laura, has gone viral in last few days – so many of you will already have seen it and know the back story
for those who haven’t, click to watch the video on Youtube and read the accompanying information about Howard and Laura
