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The Al-X Relationship Tread
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Ever heard of ghosting?
Has it anything to do with being thirsty?
It would have been funnier if we all agreed to ignore Al’s question
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the girl from Yale
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Sound like a bad case of sour grapes from the pointy eared hobgobblin.
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Valentine’s day is approaching and though my wife and I haven’t celebrated it with gifts for many years, this time I’m doing something unexpected.
Just before Christmas she lost the center stone from her engagement ring. With my daughter’s help, I snuck the ring out of her jewelry box and had the sapphire replaced as well as the surrounding diamonds tightened up. I gave it to her for her birthday in January (first she got an oven mitt, lowering expectations makes the real gift that much sweeter!
)My ring was lost 15 years ago and was custom so not easily replaced or reproduced but when she put hers back on she got teary eyed remembering that we used to have matching rings. So I digitally scanned our wedding photos, spent a few days sketching my ring and will be picking up what is hopefully a faithful recreation of it on Monday.
She’ll be surprised to get a Valentine’s day present at all but will be blown away when she opens it.
I haven’t bought any fine jewelry since 1995, the ring is more than 4 times the original cost…..its just GOLD for cryin out loud!
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Hey, cut it out Andy; you’re making the rest of us look bad!
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Love Is Blind’s Vanessa Lachey Says Shower Sex Is the Key to Her Happy Marriage with Nick Lachey
Thoughts? TMI?
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Sorry to say Todd, yes it means your marriage is doomed.
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There is still time, Todd. He is a very attractive man.
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Given the current conditions, Shower Sex probably is the best sex to have, as long you use enough soap.
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Isn’t water actually supposed to be a terrible lubricant?
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I miss the times when I would post dating philosophy, articles, al-xisms, etc. but none of that is happening now.
Things are serious these days and getting worse.
So I have nothing for the time being but this post saying that I have nothing.
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Yeah, it’s kind of hard to develop a relationship in the days of social distancing. Hope you are taking care of yourself, Alfred.
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So I have nothing for the time being but this post saying that I have nothing.
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Say…
Being in quarantine apparently means close quarters with your significant other more than usual.
How is your relationship going at this time? Do you listen or just wait for your turn to talk?
Also, I use Zoom, Skype, etc. and I notice that no one looks that good these days….
Just saying.
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How is your relationship going at this time? Do you listen or just wait for your turn to talk?
No, I’ve found it very useful to never actually listen to my life partner and instead to just occasionally interject with a few witty one-liners when she comes to the end of a sentence, like we’re thinly-sketched characters in a bad sitcom. It really seems to have strengthened the relationship.
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I’m only joking around. I just don’t think it’s a very realistic take on how relationships work or how people think about them.
Even if someone isn’t a great listener, they’re not going to think of themselves as someone who ignores their partner and just waits for their chance to hold forth.
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You’re right though that the current circumstances are going to intensify relationships. I think that could be in a positive as well as a negative way, as people focus on what’s really important to them. But at the same time there’s always a risk that difficulties and tensions are magnified. As always, finding a path together through communicating and working together as a team is the best way I think.
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In related news, divorces are expected to rise following the coronavirus:
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I’ve also heard youth workers say that they are very worried that there will be a rise in domestic violence.
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In related news, divorces are expected to rise following the coronavirus:
I suspect births may do too though.
Being in those heady days of an early relationship where you can’t stop thinking about being together and that’s what happens sounds pretty cool too.
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I suspect births may do too though.
What if, nine months from now, all these Coronababies are born simultaneously, all with platinum-blond hair and weird eyes? What if Village of the Damned was a documentary from the future?
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I suspect births may do too though.
You may be on to something…
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This crisis informed me for the first time just how many of the world’s condoms (and also gloves) are made in Malaysia. I always knew it was a major supplier of rubber but not the specifics.
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I am sofa king p.o. of this quarantine. I want to go outside and see Spring, meet people, talk to them.
But…
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