Will you marry me?

[ExLimey]

So the women I work with have decided that I need to be married to a friend who lives 2500 miles away. I think it has something to do with the fact that they want me to be as miserable as their husbands and that because I'm single and unattached I might possibly infect the herd with my "I can do anything I want, anytime I want" attitude.

This all started out of a conversation about how men don't have to do as much Xmas shopping as women. I was cornered and under interogation gave up a list of people I have to shop for. On said list was a female friend and automatically it's assumed:

1. I've banged her
2. We both love each other
3. If I asked she'd agree to marry me and move 2500 miles leaving her family and life behind.

I was then instructed to waste no time in asking her to marry me. Not the conversation we ended up having. When "the girls" get all wound up like this I take great pleasure in stirring the pot.

So I'm telling them that we've been "talking" back and forth in e-mails. One of them asks me if I asked her to marry me in an e-mail!? I'm thinking how tacky would that be?

Oh well, there's no real point to this other than to start a thread not related to Christmas.

Feel free to comment, or not. I'm going to go back to lurking.

That is all.

 

[RudeNastyAssBitch]

It Has Christmas Elements Though!

Merry Merry, Lurker Of The Europe Place!

 

[ExLimey]

Re: It Has Christmas Elements Though!

Merry Merry, Lurker Of The Europe Place!

formerly of the Europe Place!

Happy Christmas to you too.

 

[Guest]

 

[ExLimey]

For some reason they seem to think that after being nitpicked all day at work I want to come home to that too!

This is my sanctuary, the only place I can get any peace and quiet. Why would I want to ruin that?

 

[modest mouse]

XLimey,

I say don't worry about the chicks at work. They seem incapable of letting things be ina state of their own, too eager to define rather than enjoy. Buy for whom you want and dont worry about why.

Tell 'em you thought men and women could be freinds and enjoy each other but maybe thats only with women who are capable of exchanges without it needing to be romantic or with an end game. Make them feel bad, it always works.

Other than that... Best wishes in the New Year.

 

[ExLimey]

Tell 'em you thought men and women could be freinds and enjoy each other but maybe thats only with women who are capable of exchanges without it needing to be romantic or with an end game. Make them feel bad, it always works.

Other than that... Best wishes in the New Year.

I suppose I could do that. BUT I get much more perverse pleasure out of them getting all riled up like a bunch of farm-yard chickens.

This is someone I've known for close to 10 years (maybe more) and it's never been anything more than a friendship. Both our families give us crap about each other. We just laugh it off.

Happy Christmas and New Years to you too.

 

[LukkyKnight]

Feel free to comment, or not. I'm going to go back to lurking.

That is all.

No, not even if you buy me a big ol diamond ring.

 

[PacificBlue]

Well...

after listening to the "chicks" talk at my place of employment, I've decided being single isn't so bad. Living in sin is looking better and better all the time. I may go to hell for saying that.

What I've noticed about marriage is 1. The marriages that seem to work well are the ones where the people in them accept each other for who they are. 2. The marriages that are unhappy the majority of the time are the ones who keep wanting that other person to be exactly like them.

 

[Nora]

ExLimey, I think they deserve to have their feathers ruffled. Of course, I'm bitchy enough that I'd tell 'em, "No way! I heard your husband talking about married life and I want NO part of that!"

*smiles sweetly*


PS: If you ever do decide to marry someone who lives far away, stick to your guns and don't propose via email. I've never heard of anything so tacky in all my life.

 

[ExLimey]

The one who asked about the e-mail is so desperate to marry her boyfriend that she jokingly said she'd be okay with popping the question via e-mail. At the rate she's going it'll be a long time if ever that she hears those words.

 

[Nora]

Ask her if she'd be willing to get a .jpg engagment ring and her wedding night via cyber.

 

[ExLimey]

He's a jerk, granted not as big of one as any of her exs, but we all offered to pitch in and buy her a ring if she kicks him to the curb. We have a pool going of how much longer she will be with him before she wakes up and smells the coffee. I think the shortest guess is 3 more years.

 

[Saint Peter]

<Return To Sender>

 

[Nora]

He's a jerk, granted not as big of one as any of her exs, but we all offered to pitch in and buy her a ring if she kicks him to the curb. We have a pool going of how much longer she will be with him before she wakes up and smells the coffee. I think the shortest guess is 3 more years.

Good Lord. See, I just don't have a lot of sympathy for the terminally stupid.

 

[ExLimey]

I admit I'm pretty dumbfounded by the whole situation myself. She's a very smart and very attractive woman but she subjects herself to his crap. It really amazes me that she can't see the reality of the situation.

 

[Nora]

Maybe she just digs the abuse?

 

[ExLimey]

She doesn't see the neglect as abuse. She's just not a priority to him, not even #2 or 3 on the list. But because he doesn't beat her or verbally abuse her, she thinks he's God. It's really difficult to bite my tongue all the time. I've gotten a few good digs in and so do the rest of our co-workers. I think deep down she realizes but she'd much rather be in a relationship than completely single.

Oh well, I really must be getting some sleep. My dog will be up early tomorrow (later today) to open his gifts from Santa.

Night.

 

[Nora]

g'night sweetheart. I hope you and your dog have a wonderfully Merry Christmas together tomorrow. I'll think of you while I"m watching the "Three Wise Men" marathon on USA.

 

[PacificBlue]

It sounds like the "single girl syndrome". I'm not really sure that there is a cure. A lot of my girlfriends had it and all are married now. Not one of them is truly happy in her situation but all thought it was what was required of them and felt out of place in the world without a husband.

 

[freshrope_69]

don't do it....

being single is better an a "marriage" that there is no sucking, no making love and just mean spirited attitudes and expectations....

So, please tell your "friends" that you have a mind of your own and that a "marriage" to please them isn't in your plans...

from someone who recently rediscovered that being single is a blessing and I am my own BOSS....

from your friendly neighborhood clitlicker....

freshrope_69