Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The Joys of Marriage (Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2025 12:34:33 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: References: <237cf371-700e-be30-7ec8-df825e179db2@example.net> <8ea4721d-c8e7-600d-4eab-8a5f473a8a79@example.net> <131fa0ed-dc3c-5873-81a5-61213a109b57@example.net> <5b065b27-7b96-fa22-2f35-a1fda1bf0edb@example.net> <8e145c9c-37d7-062f-d073-2f47530b9e4c@example.net> <8a6a2d8b-914b-9b2e-a67f-3087d10d6d98@example.net> <677900fb-433d-39cf-4887-b04fe4aad245@example.net> <0a8b4f0e-0d36-3d02-8e9d-9f51d9c39d6a@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="1799598"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:63624 On Fri, 3 Jan 2025, Lars Poulsen wrote: > On 2025-01-02, rbowman wrote: >>> Brilliant! And you are now happily living together I assume? ;) > >> I get along well with my ex on the phone. She's about 2000 miles away and >> it's better that way. It may say something about our personalities that >> neither of us remarried. > >> A few years after his wife died my brother remarried. I think that was >> something he needed. > > I am on my third wife. > The first one was a nuclear physicist divorced single mother. I was 22, > she was 30. We had a lot of sex. In the end, after 7 years, she decided > I was too stable and boring, kicked me outand went back to the abusive > bigamist that had cased her divorce years earlier. > > The second one was a very good match. She had spent three years in the > USSR, and married the artist (MFA icon painter from Moscow University) > son of an orthodox priest. When I met her, she was maniging the ERP > system group at the tech company where we both worked. After our > daughter was born, she first demoted herself to tech support for > Engineer disktops in order to go part time, then became RE coordinator > for our (UU) church, and then became a cancer nurse. She divorced me > because she wanted to become a Buddhist num, got an MA in Divinity > (Buddhist hospice chaplain target) and got accepted into the Thich Nhat > Hanh order of Interbeing. She spent a few years managing an 11 bed > hospice house in Iowa, before retiring. We are still good friends, and > my new wife likes her a lot. > > My current wife was a surgical nurse, but retired shortly after we > married. There are times when I think our best shot at staying married > is to live separately, but she would rather kill either me or herself > than agree to that. > Wow! You are quite a player Lars! =D