Are you wishing away your life, waiting for something better? How to love EVERY day.
The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation ~Thoreau
If you have eyes to see, you’ll see it everywhere. If you listen carefully, you’ll hear it. Most times, logging into Facebook provides an overwhelming dose of it.
Desperation.
It looks a lot like the person who can’t wait for the weekend.
It sounds like the person who walks into the office saying “I hate Monday!!”.
It’s the person who hates their job but needs the money.
Waiting for him to propose marriage? How to deal when you're waiting to get engaged.
A modern woman shouldn't break down over a marriage proposal. But despite all the gender-role changes over the past decades, men asking women for their hand in marriage is a tradition that has remained strong. And for a woman who wants her man to get down on one knee, waiting for that one little question is stressful and nerve-wracking. But can waiting for a proposal really drive you crazy?
I love my man, Chris, more deeply and truly than I have ever loved anyone before. As cliche as that may sound, it is the truth. He makes me smile and laugh no matter how angry I am. Even when it's him that is making my blood boil. How does he do that? He is in my heart. That's how. (Insert obnoxiously long "aw" here.)
I feel drawn to this man like a moth to flame, Iccharus to the sun, or birds to the South in Winter. It is only natural for me to love him. His patience with me knows few limitations. When no one else can bear to be around me due to my mood swings or hormones, he still has my back. If I am upset for a "stupid girl reason" (my term, not his), he doesn't judge me. Rather, he waits patiently for the mood to pass and my fun-loving, goofy little psycho self to come back out to play. His love is pure, like spring water. Cool and refreshing. He is my fountain of youth, because we almost always have fun together.
Chris is the one I want to marry. He knows this. I remind him a little too often, sometimes, but I am having trouble waiting for it to be real. I have been engaged 5 times: Wayne in 1997 (verbal, no ring, broke up before he proposed), Roy in 2000 (broke up shortly after starting wedding planning), Kevin (verbal, ring was bought, decided to be friends before he proposed and we are still very close), Jacob in April of 2004 (married 26 months, divorced bitterly), Sam in November of 2007 (he broke up with me 10 days before the wedding).
So, damaged and in love with love as I am, my patience grows weak....
A five-year marriage with no sex: the true story of a divorced virgin.
How I became a divorced virgin: "I was twenty-nine, single again after a five-year marriage, and a virgin. When I met my now ex-husband Mike, I had just turned 21. We met at small Catholic liberal arts college, and even though I no longer believed in Jesus, the Saints, the Bible, God, really any of that. I was a virgin then, and I was a virgin when we divorced."
To marry or to wait: that is the question. Is there a "right" age to tie the knot?
The facts: According to USA Today, Americans are getting hitched later than ever—the median marriage age is the oldest it's been since the census started tracking the stat in 1890: 25.6 for women and 27.5 for men. Back in the late nineteenth century we were at 26 for men and 22 for women; marriage ages reached a low in the early 60s, when men wed at 22 and women at 20. Since then we've been waiting longer and longer.
