Marriage and the Power of Divorce
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ToeMissile
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Just realized my 5th anniversary is in less than a month and I haven't planned shit.
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iannis
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Noodleface
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Our anniversaries are kind of whatever days because we got the kids and shit. Yeah we could get a sitter but we both sort of agreed that they're part of it so we try to do stuff together - and by together really we're doing stuff the kids like. This year we all hung out at the zoo.
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Plan for the long term, keep expectations low. Lotta dudes go balls out on anniversaries early in the marriage and that fucks them over down the road. You take your woman to disneyland for the 5th anniversary, then try to grill some hot dogs for the 15th; she's gunna get it in her head that the magic has died.
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We lived together for so long that our wedding day didn't really feel like that big a deal. We've only been married I think 2.5 years now (or is it 3.5? uh oh) and usually we both forget our anniversary.
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I try to do something nice for our anniversary, and my wife does, too. But more often it's something we plan together, like a weekend somewhere together. Though there are years where we do nothing for the anniversary, but that's typically a mutual decision, too. If I forgot completely, it would almost certainly because something huge was going on. I'm sure I'd catch no shit for it. Similarly if she forgot completely there would likely be a good reason. And even if not, who the fuck cares? We treat it as an excuse to fly to Paris for a long weekend without the kids. If that doesn't work out, we'll catch an opera in Chicago and get a room there for a night or something.
Anniversaries are not a big deal, but they're great excuses to get away and have wild, animal sex in a hotel in a foreign city.
Anniversaries are not a big deal, but they're great excuses to get away and have wild, animal sex in a hotel in a foreign city.
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We don't go crazy, but at least try to get something smallish we know the other has had their eye on and do dinner somewhere nice or that we really enjoy and don't go to often. This will be the first year w/ the baby I'll have to arrange a sitter, not a big deal as her family lives very close. Also, her birthday is a week and a half earlier.
She's a long time LA Kings fan, and we haven't been to a game in a while... think I'll grab tickets for some nice seats.
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Wife has to deliver a wedding cake to the Chattanooga area, and we are taking full advantage of that and taking a autumn drive through the Smokies to Highlands NC, and up to Asheville, and back to home via I 40. Gonna be a fun mini getaway and hopefully we can bury the hatchet over some of this tension that has built up over the last month or two. Either way the fall foliage should be awesome.
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Namon
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Yeah middle Tennessee is complete shit for landscape... it's hard to explain but the vegetation here really is ugly as hell. But even ugly trees lose their leaves, but I live on the edge of a farm with a farmer father in law who works for a hobby and always comes over with his tractor mower and a lawn vacuum in tow. Leaves just disappear one day while I'm at work.