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Originally Posted by mem11363
Ultimately you throw away the checklist and ask yourself if you are relaxed and happy with your partner. If you look forward to spending today, this coming weekend and the rest of your life together. Do they love you the way you want to be loved. No one has ever loved me the way my wife loves me. No one. Not even close.
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Always_Searching, great thread I'm glad you stumbled upon mine so I could find it.
I tend to agree with Mem. My story is one of polar opposites. My wife who is now my ex and I were polar opposites. She a college proffesor, published writer, studied Egyptian history as a hobby, Honor Roll and gifted classes in High School etc. To be honest, not the type of girl I was looking for. Me, the typical dirt under the fingernails grease monkey with a crude mouth and a pick-up truck. A date on a whim turned into 13 years! In that time, she learned to change her own oil, shoot a gun, and ride a motorcycle. Me I learned about higher learning and found myself holding my own amongst Deans, and professors even though the only time I ever stepped foot inside a university was to take her to lunch! All the while hiding those dirty fingernails and busted knuckles.
Point is, had we not come together, in our own lists of standards, we would have never even been a blip on each others screen. For the purpose of the thread I would say in the beginning we both changed our standards. In fact, while we could all draw or imagine our perfect mate, nobody among us really knows what that is until we find them, we know what we should want, what we think we want, but romantic love has no logic, you find it where you find it, and don't typically recognize it until it smacks you between the eyes. Thats why most of the greatest love stories of all time start with polar opposites and chance encounters.
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