TalesoftheWireMonkey Posted August 7, 2016 Posted August 7, 2016 What's the big deal with marriage/co-habitating? Can none of you women have a committed, caring, loving, long-term relationship but live separate lives? Like Barney and Thelma-Lou on Andy Griffith? ( Yes, I know she married someone else later.) I've had several successive girlfriends of late who I was honest and upfront with that I didn't want to get married. After a year or so they went ballistic that I wasn't going to marry them after all. My female co-workers are on to me for not marrying these girls. I understand if you are young and want to build a family yes, get married. I'm old, in my 50's never married. I know I'm hard to please and hard to get along with and expect my way all the time. I wouldn't wish me on anybody. Still I want love, sex and companionship. I had one girl like that, she was aware of herself enough to know she didn't want to live with anyone. We spent many happy times together and were always there for each other's crises and concerns. It lasted five years and we came apart for other reasons. And for the record neither one of us has married or co-habitated yet in the last ten years. I don't know what's so bad about a relationship like that? It doesn't mean I'm not committed or not serious.
basil67 Posted August 7, 2016 Posted August 7, 2016 There's nothing bad about wanting a long term relationship where you live separately. My FIL had a 15 year relationship like this after my MIL died....both were happy in their own homes and having sleepovers on occasion. There's also nothing bad about wanting to co-habit. It's just about finding someone with compatible views
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