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My, my aren't we defensive. I'll bet you're one of those people who brings your own set of utensils to family holiday dinners. Ya know....just in case your brother-in-law's wife or whoever didn't clean their's enough and accidentally poisons you. And about that comment in bold, hey you said it not me. By the way, your 3rd paragraph made no sense.

Wasn't that the second sentence of your post? You missed my whole point which focused in on the idea that if the relationship's real and good enough, there wouldn't be an "IF" If that were to happen to me, I can only blame my poor judge of character, no so much regret that I didn't put up a safety net below. nuff said. Sorry, don't mean to be rude. I know that people aren't perfect and too often get involved emotionally in things that blind them from reality, but it's our job to ultimately learn from them and not make the same mistakes again. However, the lesson learned shouldn't be how to defend yourself against other people but rather how to pick the right people that you wouldn't need to defend yourself. You can live your life always keeping a skeptic eye out for your own well being, but that's exhausting and in some cases, disrespectful. I'm very glad to hear. I'm sure y'all are great for each other Of course it does. Financing is dealing with funds management and deciding how to make it flow, and decisions make a person. It's not who you are that defines you but what you do, so ultimately, what you decide to do in life reflects exactly who you are and what others mean to you when relevant.

My cultural background plays a big role when I say that I don't find that an appealing option. Finance is without a doubt one of the major things couple's have to address in order to make their relationship work. To me, if you can't trust each other with money, you ain't really trusting each other. Sure, it's nice to take precaution just in case things don't turn out right, but if that "just in case" is significant enough that you'd actually go ahead to make preparations for it, what does that really say about you and the relationship? It says there are plenty of egg shells being walked on. It says you sleep with a metaphoric knife under your pillow even in your own house. It says there's no real trust. When I end up with someone one day, I want it to be like the family I already have. There's no he, she, you or I in my family when it comes to money and the relationship we have warrants no precaution. If my future spouse keeps personal private funds somewhere, that'll be as if he/she tells me they're keeping some money for themselves just in case we don't work out, or that they've already decided on who they're gonna end up with next just in case I die or that they've got copies of divorce documents ready in the house just in case we wanna split....and that would sure as hell make me feel uncomfortable.

122 69 are gay 7 are named David 1 is pregnant.

You're gay.

Or.... That's kinda funny, in a ridiculous way.

How many people responded? Cuz there could be 1 gay guy outta 1,000,000 but if he was one of only 10 responses, that gives you 10%.

Happy birthday man

So that people would slowly start to shrink, lose weight, their skins darken, hair disappear and dancing lookin' a lot funner than when you walked in.

drankin' and drovin' then. (no one brought you a drink?)

Bad Hos, for drinking and driving.

It won't take that long. I give it til 25, or a year or two after he gets out of his last schooling. This doesn't apply to everyone, but most kids look toward, at least in some part, extrinsic reasons to keeping in shape and looking good, and for those who are snobbish they either wouldn't do this at all or the extrinsic aspects would weigh in more. Things like being able to impress the crowd, hooking up with co-eds or just the thrill of being young and kept at physical prime are pretty common thoughts. You take the guy out of that environment, you take away some of his motivation when he's got no-one to impress, esp if he's got a LTR heading into engagement and if he played intramural sports, where's he gonna find something like that as easily outta school?. A 25 year old would halfass what he did at 20, and again, I know this doesn't apply to everyone.

I'm not sure if it's mentioned that a large part of appearance is manageable. I'd like an average looking person who at least makes attempts to takes care of himself a bit more than a hottie who's a slob because it speaks something about his attitude right off the bat, and when I look at people, the very first thing I notice is attitude.

Mercedes from Glee? She my gurlllll! Oh yea, I think I did see a set of cattle brands one time that had "Gucci" and "Prada" shapes....they didn't seem more expensive than other brand irons though Huh?.....is that a trick question?

A lotta little things changed my life in significant ways that I never woulda though when it was happening and a lotta things will continue to change my life in ways I can't plan. As far as something I can now do consciously to change my life....I don't know and proly nothin' big because I'm not currently facing as big of a opportunity as you are. I still have my goals, but I can't guarantee that my plans will lead to those goals in a linear manner so while big decisions and impact life in big ways, they're not always significant if they simply induced change but not positive change, but I guess the dilemma is in not knowing how the future will turn out. Good luck on deciding what you wanna do. All the best

Oh snaaaap you is 28!! Happy birthday gurrl!!!!

If 2000 is the beginning, then 2009 would be the end. Including 2010 in there would make it 11 years.

Of course it doesn't. But it's interesting to see who thinks what, which I guess you don't. Haha, I think I have more nostalgia for the '90s than '00s. No comparison.

Wikipedia explained it as ambiguous depending on context and personal interpretation.

A funny thought popped in my head the other day so I asked a friend of mine and my parents back home. They all thought differently. What about you? Do you count 2010 as the end of the 2001-2010 decade or did you count the decade as 2000-2009 and 2010 as a new beginning? I count 1-10.

Thanks for the link. And yea, I wouldn't have be able to do that at 14 either. Hell, I wouldn't be able to do that now. Man, 14 seemed like so long ago. That was the middle school-to-high school transition, and the last thing on my mind was outting myself.

I'm neither of the two, thanks. = )

It matters. And I don't mean that in a only-hot-people-matter kinda way, but it does, and in almost every area of your life, to some degree, and it's at the point where it's almost irrelevant how much it matters to me because I'm subject to the general perspective of society, and to society, it matters. You could argue that's the problem, but I don't think it is so much a problem as just a phenomenon. Nobody would 'choose' to be unattractive. If I'm right, good looking people statistically hold better, and higher positioned jobs, have more friends and hold their chins up a little higher. People have a natural prejudice that right from the start, or even in general, makes you have more interest in a good looker person than an average looking or unattractive one. It does't hold true across the board and at some point, people's personalities shine them through, but in our world, I don't think people know each other well enough for that personality attraction to really take a firm stand to overcome the 'good-looks' prejudice. Relationship wise, for me, good looks are cool and fun to look at, and attracts me, but personality keeps me interested. My experiences have always been that I get pretty interested in a good looking guy at first as a friend, potential date or what not, but if that person is boring or has a shitty personality, I lose interest in their looks and slowly they aren't even good looking anymore. So bottom line is that you'll have a much easier time being seen with good looks but unless you have something substantial to back it up, people will look elsewhere.

I've always wondered how many people are having sex right now. Too bad they didn't have that stat.

Dirtier than before but still clean by my standards.... ...that is until I finally use it to wipe up....you know ...then it becomes dirty.