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| Thu, 07-03-2008 - 7:34pm |
On a little different idea of marriage... how long were/ are your parents together for?
| Thu, 07-03-2008 - 7:34pm |
On a little different idea of marriage... how long were/ are your parents together for?
My parents were married 48 yrs in May.....I used to look to look at my parents marriage as how
~Karen˙·٠•●♥Ƹ̵̡Ӝ
Great question Alison!
My parents were married about 20 years...
While they had both a good and a bad marriage.. I still have great respect for both of my parents, and they did at one time have a wonderful relationship. I know that everything that happened to them has had a great impact on me and my relationships.
Ok, major info I"m sharing here.. and I think I'm doing it just because I don't really know any of you all. I kind of hold this info back for a while when I meet someone new.
Anyway my parents had a great marriage, my father was the life of the party... very magnetic personality and everyone loved him. My Mom was the perfect stay at home mom who worshiped him and was really there for all of us. Dad had a great job as an engineer, and we lived a very good life. So anyway, out of the blue my father flipped out and was diagnosed manic depressive. He lost his job, went through a string of jobs, and a string of episodes for the next 8 years. Mom stuck by him through it all... even though I know she was really having a hard time taking care of everything. Dad would spend a lot of money when he was manic. So our xmas savings would be spent, our college funds were gone.. we were left with really nothing.
So, Dad finally had his last episode when I was 14 and it was a bad one. He ended up killing himself. My mother is my hero from all of this though. She stood by him, stepped up and supported the three of us on her minimum wage job. She put her life back together, lost tons of weight. She ended up looking like Linda Evans she was so beautiful! I even had guys in high school that had a crush on my mom. Well, she ended up getting remarried to a very stable older man.. I think thats what she needed.. just that perfect stability. She waits on him hand and foot.. and it makes her happy. While thats not my thing... I know it makes her happy.
and by then, it was too late."
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how long were/ are your parents together for?
how long were/ are your parents together for?
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