Apr 14, 2005
71,310
Enjoy their company = wanting to have them around and being able to live with them and see them every day. Of course it won't be every single day you feel like that, but I mean not feeling the need to send them home in the morning after they spend the night.

I said wife initially, but marriage and kids is secondary. Firstly I would just like good companionship, while also filtering for motherly/wifely qualities.

And that's what's really hard to find, someone who's presence doesn't irk me. I know that's a me problem lol
That right there makes no sense to me :p personally i see it very differently. As a man, there is no cure to solitude. I am not here to look for enjoyment and fulfilment in familial relationships. I am here to serve and protect, just like the popo :lol: deviating from that mission makes life hollow and meaningless. It's all about having a sense of duty. And with some luck the girl you end up picking is not some ungrateful hoowa, and she repays your sacrifice with loyalty and care. And if she don't, well fuck her. Onto the next one. Easy come, easy go.
 

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Quetzalcoatl

It ain't hard to tell
Aug 22, 2007
67,101
If you do it right, the person you meet will change you. For the better for the most part. And by changing you, the rigid, prioritized list you went in with just got torn up. Or at least altered.

People who seek a romantic partner with rigid lists are bound for disappointment because they treat it like a job interview and are disappointed that they hooked up with an employee. A relationship focused only on you without external growth is confining -- and more of a vanity project than anything.

The real magic is in finding someone who makes you different, who changes what you thought you wanted out of a partner and life. They would not be the sort of person you would have anticipated with your prior checklist, and you wouldn't know that until you first met them and they changed you over time.

That right there makes no sense to me :p personally i see it very differently. As a man, there is no cure to solitude. I am not here to look for enjoyment and fulfilment in familial relationships. I am here to serve and protect, just like the popo :lol: deviating from that mission makes life hollow and meaningless. It's all about having a sense of duty. And with some luck the girl you end up picking is not some ungrateful hoowa, and she repays your sacrifice with loyalty and care. And if she don't, well fuck her. Onto the next one. Easy come, easy go.
I appreciate both messages and agree fully. I guess I've become entitled with my expectations :D
 

Martin

Senior Member
Dec 31, 2000
56,925
What do you mean by enjoy your time?

The main purpose of marriage is actually not about you. A healthy home and well adapted and behaved kids is what builds and maintains civilizations. And that takes work. Even biology supports this idea. Mating mechanics filter our the gene pool.

A certain degree of compatibility is needed(you determine that soon enough) and you need rust to be comfortable around each other. But I disagree that the purpose of marriage is enjoying each other's company.
Wow, you sound a lot more level headed than last time I was here.
 

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