So why are you still single?

[Moses]

Originally posted by lendaddy
It's all unnecessary in a good relationship...

You are 100% correct. I would never dream of asking permission to go play golf, or go away with my friends. In fact I'm leaving Friday for a week in Belize with old college pals. My wife would never give me grief about stuff like this. Imagine this bizarre marital situation; my wife loves me and wants me to be happy. Strange, huh? On the flip side, I never try to micro-manage my wife. Never. I can't imagine living in a marriage with a woman who has "control" issues. A marriage should not feel like a prison sentence. I've been married for 24 years and I cannot bear to think of what my life would be like without my wife and kids.

[widebody911]

Oh, in the event of a tie, I win.

And you thought liberals were delusional!

[cantdrv55]

Originally posted by widebody911
Oh, in the event of a tie, I win.

And you thought liberals were delusional!

In the event of a tie, we do rock, paper, scissors.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

In the event of a tie, I do a double-Windsor.

[lendaddy]

LOL

[Moses]

Originally posted by widebody911
Oh, in the event of a tie, I win.

Don't know how I missed that! A pre-nup that specifies "I'm the boss". No way I could sell that at home. Not a chance.

[lendaddy]

Guys, you read waaaaay to much into that. What we agreed is that if we ever come to a stalemate where we simply cannot agree, that there must be a final say. My wife (being intelligent) would never agree to this with a person she did not trust to never abuse it. I have not and like I said, it has onlt occured once in our 14 years together. It does not get used on ewhere we are going to dinner or other trivial matters.

[tc-sacto]

For you enginer types, shouldn't this be simple math. I use my numbers

raising a child thourgh age 18 = 250,000 or 13,888 per year
Wife:
Engagement ring $10,000
Wedding $ 5,000
Honeymoon $5,000
aniversary ring $5,000
Tennis bracelet $6,000
Dia. earings $5,000
total: $36,000
2 year old child: $27,776
Grand total $63,776

Now compare to quarterly visit to the Mustang ranch near Reno
$4,000 per year

$63,000/24 months of marriage $2,657 per mo.
$8,000 total cost of mustang ranch $333 per month.

Stay single, get a chick on the side, but not serious to keep expenses down , to supliment the Mustang Ranch... come out way ahead.

[widebody911]

Originally posted by tc-sacto
For you enginer types, shouldn't this be simple math. I use my numbers

$divorce=sum(
raising a child thourgh age 18 = 250,000 or 13,888 per year
Wife:
Engagement ring $10,000
Wedding $ 5,000
Honeymoon
aniversary ring $5,000
Tennis bracelet $6,000 );

$divorce += $alimony;

$wife = $divorce;

[FrayAdjacent911]

Well... they have said... if it flies, floats or f***s, RENT IT.

[tc-sacto]

Amen

[kach22i]

Originally posted by tc-sacto
Mustang Ranch

I know it was only an example, but they tore down the place after they went out of business.

[lendaddy]

Originally posted by FrayAdjacent911
Well... they have said... if it flies, floats or f***s, RENT IT.

If you can't find the situation I ouitlined.....the by ALL means you are absolutely correct!

This was actually my point in the first place.

[tc-sacto]

Yea,
I forgot about them closing the Mustang Ranch. I should have said the Bunny Ranch in Carson City. But the Idea still holds :0)

[notfarnow]

Originally posted by Moses
... my wife loves me and wants me to be happy.

My wife loves me and wants me to paint the kitchen.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

So stop posting and hop to it! You might get some when you finish.

[notfarnow]

Originally posted by BlueSkyJaunte
So stop posting and hop to it! You might get some when you finish.

HA! That's exactly what she said!

You meant supper, right?

[CamB]

This conversation made me think of the (relatively recent) legalisation of prostitution here in NZ. One of the biggest, err, Gentlemen's Clubs (there was even a reality TV show about the strip club in it) is called the Whitehouse. It even has a presidential seal.

[FrayAdjacent911]

Cam, would that be of the 'whitehouse.com' fame?

Many a yankee got suckered by that domain name.... The site for the actual White House is 'whitehouse.gov'...

[CamB]

Different I assume. Mostly because I am not especially keen to type it into my browser at work to check.