Just read a thread about somebody falling in love with their best friend, and IB and Mach were talking about how they still love their husbands after so long together. That put a huge smile on me, I am really in awe of all you people who are happily married or have had your somebody special for a very long time. You all give me hope, and I am a little bit envious of your luck. Love you all!

Teacher said:

I wonder if luck has anything got to do with it...

I think love is hard work.

Natisse said:

OOOOH!

The most beautiful person of The Org comes out!

Self-confessed and all!

Hehehe.

But serious. It is very hard to take to a new love of either of your parents. Especially as a small child you are just going to do what feels natural. Being bitcy is one of them.

HamsterHuey said:

we've talked about it before on several occaisons growing up but I still feel embarrassed, truthfully...I acknowledge I was very young tho and didn't understand what was happening around me

next story!...

Natisse said:

all step kids do this I think, can you blame them really?

I've been together with my husband 10 years (married for 6). I am very much still in love with him. I can't believe he picked me, and he says the same about me.

* thinks for a long moment *

i dont just still love TR ... i love him more every day

i adore him ..admire him and respect him

our life together has been wonderfully blessed ...yes

we choose to work at staying happy together because its important to us

it was and is our intention to spend our lives together , growing, learning and supporting each others dreams and desires

we grant ecah other the freedoms and space all people need to themselves at times, without resentment or feeling offended

our time spent together is far better because of the things we do for one another AND the things we do for ourselves

perhaps i am lucky
perhaps i am blessed

i see it like this

i work hard

the payoff is profound

AsianBomb777 said:

I have never been in an open relationship.

Well, I am happily married, although the wife is in my bad books right now, as you know Teacher.

But overall, I am very happy in my relationship. It only took 3 days for me to ask my (now) wife to spend her life with me, and it's now more than 3 and a half years later. I went with a feeling and so far everything has shown me I was right. You could say we're lucky, but to be honest, I don't believe in luck (all so called 'luck' can be explained rather easily) and I don't believe in fate. We just met each other and fell in love.

Mach said:

You, myself and joker are like minds.

Let's all be smug together.

Fauxie said:

Or better yet, let's all pat each other on the back, get drunk, and end up in a clusterfuck that ruins all our relationships.

Fauxie said:

Fauxie said:

You fantasize alot, dont you?

HamsterHuey said:

No, actually.


I'm a 'doing' person.

Fauxie said:

i dont get drunk ... but i'll watch you 2

and my relationship will be just fine

even when i take the video

Mach said:

Your husband would be cool with that?

Somehow you non-fantasizing people have perverted this beautiful thread!

You just smashed Teacher's dreams!

HamsterHuey said:

I agree. Let's all get smashed and fantasize about about perverted people and beautiful teachers.

Fauxie said:

i think so ... but i'll ask him

HamsterHuey said:

Thanks for that oh-so-wrong insight into my mind

I just realised that it HAS TO BE luck involved, since some of the people who are in long terms relationship take it so lightly.

Teacher said:

Let's just say I accept the idea of 'luck'. I don't think it is down to that. It's just down to who you meet and when. That's not luck, it's just the way things go. A life may at times seem long, but at others short. It's certainly short in so far as finding love. When you consider how many people we meet in our lives it's not a great number when u're talking about meeting a person you love absolutely and want to spend your life with. Finding that 'true love' can look like a bit of a long shot. Still, I wouldn't call this luck. It's hardly lucky that I came to Thailand when I did and happened to meet my soulmate. I decided to come here and she was here, we met, fell in love, and that's just what happened. I'm certainly happy about this turn of events, but I understand it's just the way it goes. I don't think there's a parallel universe where other roads are taken. There is only what there is, and ever would it have been, the pudding proof being in the fact that it happened. It's hard to conceive of an idea like 'luck' in that sense.

Hang on, this isn't helping is it?

Oh well, have this:

Happily gay "marriage" 10 years and going strong!!!!

LEGALIZE IT!!!!!

CynthiasSocks said:

Not about the marriage thing, just the gay bit. Want to appear cool and open-minded.

CynthiasSocks said:

Holland!
Holland!

Then again, we almost legalize anything.

Teacher said:

Maybe that is the key, Teach.

HamsterHuey said:

i was thinking something close to the same Huey

lightheartedness is Key to a happy marriage ( for some )