She Who Must Be Obeyed

[Joe Baker]

I have no class this afternoon. (0:

Shux, Lisa, most of us have no class all the time.
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Joe Baker, who hasn't had any class for well over 20 years!

[FarahShazam]

Names removed to protect the innocent...

Man: Do you want to get <child>, now? (we just had beer and I want to relax at home)
Woman: No, I wasn't in any hurry to leave, (I want you to go with me to get <child> in 30minutes)

And here we see he root of the problem. The implication for the first statement was (likely) incorrect.

I'd agree with you, however, because I know my marriage and my (wonderful) husband, I have to say you are wrong. There was much more spoken dialogue that what I actually typed out. I just typed out the most important (and humerous) information.

[MartyNeilan]

Many women feel that way at 25-30, then later regret not having started a family.

That is why, even with money tight and both of us fulltime students, my wife and I had our second child last summer. She was in her early 30's, her clock was ticking, and if we waited until we both graduated, got good jobs, stayed at them long enough to take leave, bought a house, paid off our student loans, etc etc. she would either be too old to have children or be in the high risk zone for a problem pregnancy.
When and if we have a third is another story.

[Joe Baker]

I remember when my brother was in police academy (the training, not the movie ) and he came over to tell my parents that his wife was in a family way. He fully expected my Dad to be critical of their timing, since they couldn't really afford to have a baby. My Dad's answer: "If everyone waited 'til they could afford it to have babies, the human race would have died out long ago. Congratulations, son!"

We couldn't afford our third one. But (thanks and glory to God) he'll turn 16 in a few weeks, having never lacked for anything. It's amazing how you can find a way when you have to!
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Joe Baker, who "can't afford" to send his daughter to college, either, but is confident of finding a way.

[tubatooter1940]

After playing 20 years in bars,I found that most all my fellow musician's marriages resulted in divorce or the wife leveraging her player husband out of music.I remember the guys allowing the wife to fast dance only while we were playing-never a slow dance.None of these things worked.My wife never gave me cause to be worried and I never forbade her to to do any kind of dance.She was always my biggest fan and my most erudite critic.I also never gave her cause to worry and did my best to listen and address her concerns.We were lucky in that we agreed on the big issues and fought like hell over little details.We had kids and troubles but we never lost faith in each other.She'll probably wait until I'm
too old and too ugly to get any other woman and then file for divorce.
Until then,I'm feeling lucky but taking nothing for granted.
Dennis Gray