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Hmmm. Sounds good. Will you be the babysitter then?
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Sure, I'll be in Birmingham from early February till sometime in March. I'll have quite a bit of free time with the wife getting herself ready to give birth. Suits you then?
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook "There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." Ali ibn Abi Talib "Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?"
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I'm a father and my job is to protect my children and make sure that they are not taken advantage of by anyone for as long as I can. Again, if you'd turned up to take my daughter out you'd have left with a flea in your ear. And I'm not being purtanical (I was a bit of a neanderthal/tearaway as a youth) I'm being a parent. Let's hear you change your tune when your teenage daughter brings home a man in his late twenties. See how you feel about it then!
I then apologise unreservedly. I realise I shouldn't have taken your opinion as a personal insult. I agree that I would very likely turn out a complete hypocrite should it be MY daughter. However, I was genuine and true in my affection for this person, and I have not been proved wrong as to my intentions. I think I was quite immature for my age at the time and she was very mature, so we met emotionally in the middle. Time has proven me right of course, so my little list of how to remain a couple has the benefit of experience. Parenting is hard, I have a 17 year old son who has a girlfriend, and my views on HIS behavior would be very different if it was my 17 year old daughter. I wish you well with your children.
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So, my wife found out that a friend's workmate lost her husband to an internet affair. So, she's in a funny mood, talking about cheating, looking through my emails ( I do have a female friend who I write to most days, buy she's married and nothing like that is remotely on the cards ), etc. Women...
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
Christian Graus wrote:
a funny mood
that's one of the funny meanings of 'funny', right?
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
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So, my wife found out that a friend's workmate lost her husband to an internet affair. So, she's in a funny mood, talking about cheating, looking through my emails ( I do have a female friend who I write to most days, buy she's married and nothing like that is remotely on the cards ), etc. Women...
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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I then apologise unreservedly. I realise I shouldn't have taken your opinion as a personal insult. I agree that I would very likely turn out a complete hypocrite should it be MY daughter. However, I was genuine and true in my affection for this person, and I have not been proved wrong as to my intentions. I think I was quite immature for my age at the time and she was very mature, so we met emotionally in the middle. Time has proven me right of course, so my little list of how to remain a couple has the benefit of experience. Parenting is hard, I have a 17 year old son who has a girlfriend, and my views on HIS behavior would be very different if it was my 17 year old daughter. I wish you well with your children.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
I wish you well with your children.
Thank you: and you with yours. Parenting is the hardest, most complex and most rewarding job I've ever had. Can't wait for them to leave home... :-)
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Different continent! Here in UK sex and marriage are legal at 16. (to be fair, Michelle was only 3 weeks from her 18th Birthday when I met her). If you really want to worry ages of consent in other European countries vary from 18 to 12! (14 in France, 15 in Germany, but 12 in Holland, that I think is not only too young, but borderline savage). Those who think I was manipulating a young girl for the worst of motives should be ashamed of themselves for thinking such things, I just fell in love!
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Dalek Dave wrote:
14 in France, 15 in Germany, but 12 in Holland
don't know if it is true but here in belgium the law as I know it (could have changed already don't know) is that as long as the agedifferance is no greater than 5 years and the youngest is older then 16 (I think) it is legal, ofcourse once the youngest is 18 the agedifferance doesn't matter anymore. Anyway it's been a while since I checked this so it could have changed again. But I am surprised at the ages in surrounding country's, didn't know this and agree with you're statemend that 12 is way to young
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Dalek Dave wrote:
I wish you well with your children.
Thank you: and you with yours. Parenting is the hardest, most complex and most rewarding job I've ever had. Can't wait for them to leave home... :-)
digital man wrote:
Parenting is the hardest, most complex and most rewarding job I've ever had. Can't wait for them to leave home...
:-D I understand that completely, but you will miss them, Thomas, my son, is off to uni come next September, I will be glad to get the peace but miss the fun and games of him and his friends.
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Sure, I'll be in Birmingham from early February till sometime in March. I'll have quite a bit of free time with the wife getting herself ready to give birth. Suits you then?
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook "There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." Ali ibn Abi Talib "Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?"
Sounds good to me.:-D
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Sounds good to me.:-D
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Awesome! As is, I'm hoping to have some sort of get together while I'm there. I'd like to meet many of the guys that are here in the forum.
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook "There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." Ali ibn Abi Talib "Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?"
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So, my wife found out that a friend's workmate lost her husband to an internet affair. So, she's in a funny mood, talking about cheating, looking through my emails ( I do have a female friend who I write to most days, buy she's married and nothing like that is remotely on the cards ), etc. Women...
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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Lol, yesterday my wife found long blond hairs on my sweater... . . . . . My colleague was outside smoking and I lent her my jacket... Luckily my wife and I have a good understanding. (yes it's the truth, really ;p)
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yesterday my wife found long blond hairs on my sweater...
That reminds me of the Far Side cartoon of the female chimp grooming the male, and saying "So, another blond hair - conducting a little "research" with that Jane Goodall tramp?"...
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That's all that matters then. Everything else is just communication. :)
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The key word here: 'just' :rolleyes:. I think the basic problem is men use TCP, and women use UDP. Or maybe vice versa.
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A woman is only a woman but a good cigar is a smoke... :-) (Mr Kipling: not the cakey one).
And sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. - Sigmund Freud
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Last weekend, my wife and I bumped into an old girlfriend of mine, along with her husband. She's the same age as me, but looks to be in her mid twenties. I introduced her to the family and she made a fuss of the kids. When we were walking away, Jennifer said to me "I didn't know she was that pretty". She's only just started to speak to me civilly:sigh:. I haven't seen this girl in 20 years, we've both married other people and we broke up because there was no real spark there. What does my wife think I'm going to do now? Break up from a happy marriage and attempt to split another couple? She wants to remember that I chose her and chose to spend the rest of my life with her - not somebody else.
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Pete O`Hanlon wrote:
I haven't seen this girl in 20 years, we've both married other people and we broke up because there was no real spark there. What does my wife think I'm going to do now? Break up from a happy marriage and attempt to split another couple? She wants to remember that I chose her and chose to spend the rest of my life with her - not somebody else.
Don't tell us about it; tell your wife. Maybe there's something else that's making her feel insecure, and this is the way it's coming out. It sounds like she'd like some reassurance.
Software Zen:
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The key word here: 'just' :rolleyes:. I think the basic problem is men use TCP, and women use UDP. Or maybe vice versa.
Software Zen:
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A woman is only a woman but a good cigar is a smoke... :-) (Mr Kipling: not the cakey one).
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Pete O`Hanlon wrote:
I haven't seen this girl in 20 years, we've both married other people and we broke up because there was no real spark there. What does my wife think I'm going to do now? Break up from a happy marriage and attempt to split another couple? She wants to remember that I chose her and chose to spend the rest of my life with her - not somebody else.
Don't tell us about it; tell your wife. Maybe there's something else that's making her feel insecure, and this is the way it's coming out. It sounds like she'd like some reassurance.
Software Zen:
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Don't tell us about it; tell your wife
Already been there, done that. She knows how I feel about her.
Gary Wheeler wrote:
It sounds like she'd like some reassurance.
Yup - also been there and done that. To be honest, its more to do with us being at that "certain age" where you wonder if you've peaked and achieved everything that you are likely to. Added to this, is the fact that people refer to her as Catherine's mum or Hannah's mum and I fully understand why she feels a bit down - it's no fun when your whole identity seems to be based on others. Anyway - she knows how I feel about her, together 20 happy years and I don't regret a day of it (well, except for my second stag do but that's a completely different story involving consuming insane amounts of alcohol).
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So, my wife found out that a friend's workmate lost her husband to an internet affair. So, she's in a funny mood, talking about cheating, looking through my emails ( I do have a female friend who I write to most days, buy she's married and nothing like that is remotely on the cards ), etc. Women...
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
Wow. That's a bit heavy. Does she know that you know that she's looking through your mails? The post below is right on the money with the attention thing. The tricky bit is to spoil her a little to reassure her that you're still crazy about her and that nothing is going on, without making it look like you're covering up for somethiing... it's a frickin' tightrope!! Best of luck with it, these woman things are tricky. They should come with an instruction manual...
All the dude ever wanted... was his rug back.
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Gary Wheeler wrote:
Don't tell us about it; tell your wife
Already been there, done that. She knows how I feel about her.
Gary Wheeler wrote:
It sounds like she'd like some reassurance.
Yup - also been there and done that. To be honest, its more to do with us being at that "certain age" where you wonder if you've peaked and achieved everything that you are likely to. Added to this, is the fact that people refer to her as Catherine's mum or Hannah's mum and I fully understand why she feels a bit down - it's no fun when your whole identity seems to be based on others. Anyway - she knows how I feel about her, together 20 happy years and I don't regret a day of it (well, except for my second stag do but that's a completely different story involving consuming insane amounts of alcohol).
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Glad to hear it. It's amazing how many guys get to this age (e.g. middle) and don't realize some of the fundamentals.
Pete O`Hanlon wrote:
people refer to her as Catherine's mum or Hannah's mum and I fully understand why she feels a bit down
I hear that one. When my daughter was in Catholic school, I volunteered a lot and got used to being "Celeste's dad". I didn't mind, but I do have a name of my own. The best comment on this was from our parish priest one time: He was in 'civilian' clothes (no Roman collar), talking to some of us. Someone kept calling him 'Father'. He finally popped up and said "Calling me by my first name isn't a sin, you know. I kind of like it, myself." :-D
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Different continent! Here in UK sex and marriage are legal at 16. (to be fair, Michelle was only 3 weeks from her 18th Birthday when I met her). If you really want to worry ages of consent in other European countries vary from 18 to 12! (14 in France, 15 in Germany, but 12 in Holland, that I think is not only too young, but borderline savage). Those who think I was manipulating a young girl for the worst of motives should be ashamed of themselves for thinking such things, I just fell in love!
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Dalek Dave wrote:
but 12 in Holland
As far as I know the age of consent in Netherlands is 16 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Europe[^]
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