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Knightwriter34

Joined: 9/21/2006

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Does attraction to things cause attraction to the wrong people? Posted: 7/24/2007 1:07:39 PM
Like everything else there's the good & bad of everything. There's good guys with bikes, and there's bad guys with bikes. There's good people with money, and there's bad people with money. There's good people on POF, and there's bad people on POF. Which reminded me of the story. The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing A WOLF found great difficulty in getting at the sheep owing to the vigilance of the shepherd and his dogs. But one day it found the skin of a sheep that had been flayed and thrown aside, so it put it on over its own pelt and strolled down among the sheep. The Lamb that belonged to the sheep, whose skin the Wolf was wearing, began to follow the Wolf in the Sheep’s clothing; so, leading the Lamb a little apart, he soon made a meal off her, and for some time he succeeded in deceiving the sheep, and enjoying hearty meals.

Knightwriter34

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What's so bad about nice? Posted: 7/24/2007 12:25:55 PM
Being nice does have it's rewards! When I was doing Reserve drills in 1998, I took a bus to get to the unit the one weekend. I got off the bus, grabbed my duffle bag with my stuff, and thought I'll hike to the unit. I was in my BDUs and hiking along with my bag on my back, when a car stopped and asked me where I was heading. I told him over by the VA hospital to the reserve unit. He asked me if I wanted a ride, that I'm still QUITE far away from the unit. I said sure and he gave me a ride, which I'm glad he did, or I'd be hiking from the bus station to the unit the following day still. Thanksgiving day 2001, I was bored and headed home when I felt uncomfortable being at my ex-girlfriend's mom's house for dinner (her mom had invited me). So I drove home. On the way home, I decided to cruise around Erie PA, since my day was shot. As I headeded down into Erie, I saw a woman carrying a duffle bag on her back, heading from the interstate on ramp down toward the bus station. I thought to myself if she's still hiking when I come back up through, I'll stop and see if she wants a ride. Sure enough, she was by the bus station when I got back up into the area. So I stopped to offer her a ride. I remembered the ride I got from the guy to get me to the Reserve unit, and thought I could pass the favor along. She was very cautious at first (understandable with the way things are these days), she said she was calling for a ride. I sat and waited to make sure she had one. She was the only person outside the bus station at about 4 in the afternoon. She walked back up to the caravan and asked me if the offer of a ride was still available. I told her yes. She was still very cautious to begin with, but I gave her a ride to where she was going. Come to find out she was heading 300 miles east, but I was bored and figured the least I could do is get her home safely on a holiday. Half way to her destination, she had opened up enough and we were talking like friends that haven't seen each other in years. When I got to the T&A center where she was meeting her mom that was going to pick her up, we had coffee and I waited to make sure her mom was going to be there. Her mom showed up and the woman introduced me to her mom, she gave me a hug and thanked me for doing what I did. I helped carry her dufflebag out to her mom's car and watched them leave. I went back in, had another cup of coffee, then got started on the 300 some mile trip back to Erie PA and back on track to heading home. I could have been rude and left her at the bus station and maybe stranded there for the night, but being that "nice comes natural" to me, I got a woman home to her family on a family type holiday. Yes Virginia, there still are NICE people!

Knightwriter34

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Have you ever learned something from a movie? Posted: 7/22/2007 11:57:50 AM
Every town has an Elm street!

Knightwriter34

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Are you honestly ready for a relationship? Posted: 7/21/2007 9:17:27 AM
I'm not sure what message you are trying to send with this: <div class="quote">When it comes to affairs of the heart, there is no logic. All of the analyzing and planning goes out the window! Or it should... when it doesn't, it only makes things complicated and difficult when it doesn't need to be. There is nothing complicated or difficult about love... only with the people it encompasses. Wait, I figured it out now. There is nothing complicated or difficult about love... except for the people that make it complicated and difficult. Hmmmm......almost like SOME people think too much about finding the right one. That looks so familiar, like I saw the same thing somewhere! Oh yeah, a few posts back. Back on topic........I'm STILL ready for a relationship. Maybe not a relationship with Jackie, but I'm not here to try to please Jackie or enter a relationship with her!

Knightwriter34

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Are you honestly ready for a relationship? Posted: 7/20/2007 2:34:12 PM
Not turning this thread into a religious thread, but the whole "waiting for the right one to come along" made me think of this story. There came a big flood, and the water around Bhola's house was rising steadily.. Bhola was standing on the porch, watching water rising all around him, when a man in a boat came along and called to Bhola, "Get in the boat and I'll get you out of here. Bhola replied, "No thanks, God will save me." Bhola went into the house, and the water was starting to pour in. So, he went up to the second floor. As he looked out, another man in a boat came along, and he called to Bhola, "Get in the boat and I'll get you out of here." Again, Bhola replied, "No thanks. God will save me." The water kept rising. So, Bhola got out onto the roof. A helicopter flew over, and the pilot called down to Bhola, "I'll drop you a rope,grab onto it, and I'll get you out of here." Again Bhola replied, "No thanks. God will save me." The water rose and rose, and soon nearly covered the whole house. Bhola fell in, and drowned. When he arrived in Heaven, he saw God, and asked Him, "Why didn't you save me from that terrible flood? Did I not show you my faith?" With a loving but irritated tone God replied, "What more would you have me do? I sent people in two boats and a helicopter?" I'm sure it's possible to think yourself out of a date, relationship, whatever. Almost like they say some people can drink themself sober. Some people put too much thinking into finding the "right one" that they pass up others that could be the "right one" but because they don't fit into what someone is thinking IS the right one, they will never know and grow old waiting for their "right one"!

Knightwriter34

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What makes cheating right? Posted: 7/20/2007 9:43:54 AM
The subject title still sounds like the country tune! Wait that's Billy Currington's song..........Must be doing something right! Never mind!

Knightwriter34

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Are you honestly ready for a relationship? Posted: 7/20/2007 8:38:11 AM
The walls I build are made from LEGOS.

Knightwriter34

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Great Lakes Medieval Faire Posted: 7/18/2007 9:25:01 AM
Celtic Celebration this weekend at the Faire.

Knightwriter34

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What makes cheating right? Posted: 7/18/2007 9:21:30 AM
Hanging on to someone until someothing better comes along Who's cheating who....and who's being true? Wait that's already a country song. If that's the way the person I'm with would feel about being with me, I'LL DO until something better comes along, then I wouldn't even want you to have me from Hello. Dating is starting to look like car buying. This car will do, until the new 2008's come out and you fall in love with the new one and want it, resulting in the car that still has lots of miles left on it getting traded in 2 years after getting it. It's not fair to the people that get cheated, because they were playing fair and honest, yet they are left thinking it was something about them or something they did. With reading a lot of the forums, I'm seeing a lot of ME ME ME ME ME, and I wonder, what are the ones thinking all about "ME" doing for the other person?

Knightwriter34

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Great Lakes Medieval Faire Posted: 7/18/2007 8:58:10 AM
I'll be there this weekend!

Knightwriter34

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Ring on left ring finger Posted: 7/16/2007 11:59:05 AM
Without knowing the full story, or details of the reason she's the soon-to-be ex-wife, it looks like the same conditions after a fully engulfed house fire is put out, which keeps firemen there. Looks to me like there's some smoldering embers still! My response would be, "This is not your home. Your not moving back in here. I'll have the divorce papers filed by the end of the week." I'm done with her. I could be wrong, but if you are DONE with her, then why do something that was always done WITH her? The smoldering embers are still there if you do the "take her temperature" the way you always did, and she seems disappointed after that! I've read about it and seen it. What makes college any different than work? She was married, maybe she doesn't want to explain what's wrong or fend off the 100 college guys when they see the bare ring finger. Why do widowed people wear their wedding band after their mate passes on? Some to remember, some because it's been comfortable for however many years, and some because they don't want to forget I'm sure.

Knightwriter34

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Are you honestly ready for a relationship? Posted: 7/14/2007 10:43:00 PM
I'm not nitpicking here, but a simple question. if not, I'll keep looking to HOPE that he IS the one you've been waiting for, why worry from the get go about the "if not"? If it were me, and I saw that, I would wonder about how much effort on HER part that she's putting into seeing if things work, if she's already commenting about IF NOT's! Best of luck to you and the wonderful guy!

Knightwriter34

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Are you honestly ready for a relationship? Posted: 7/14/2007 10:09:25 PM
After coming home to an empty house 1,095 days straight writing my name on the calendar so I can say I've been on a date recently Yeah I'd say I'm honestly ready for a relationship. Hence being on a dating site and trying to find someone to start one with.

Knightwriter34

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What is the perfect woman ? Posted: 7/14/2007 11:12:38 AM
The perfect woman to me would be IMperfect! Just as long as she doesn't look like she went bobbing for roofing nails in the bin at the hardware store, with 100 piercings all over.

Knightwriter34

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Success Stories Posted: 7/14/2007 11:04:49 AM
I read some of the many success stories, as a way to recharge my hopes of having the same thing happen to me some day, whether it be from on here or somewhere else. I've had my hope knocked down a few times, ready to hang up the rod & reel, but then I flip through a couple of pages of success stories and I'm ready to get up, dust myself off, and do it again. I WILL be a success story on here some day if I find my fish on here.

Knightwriter34

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Free Local Drama Classes Posted: 7/13/2007 11:42:36 PM
Onward to some lighter hearted threads.

Knightwriter34

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Free Local Drama Classes Posted: 7/13/2007 11:41:31 PM
I apologize for my mistake about Athens county ( I have no problem apologizing for when I'm wrong). I would come down to check out an event, but I'm currently still under construction. So until this last appointment is OVER, I must wait. I still feel like the kid that has to wait before he can go back outside and play with his friends. I sound like a veteran fisherman with saying this, but I miss the days of the forums when they were FUN. EVERYBODY could participate and enjoy them, and not just a select few.

Knightwriter34

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Free Local Drama Classes Posted: 7/13/2007 8:10:22 PM
you want drama you should live in athens county. No clue who you are personally mudflap, but in 6 days you can't tell me that wasn't a sarcastic jab at someone we both know, yet you comment 6 days after that comment about suppose to be adults! I only know the person from chatting with her. I've been bored and flipped through some of the pictures from some of the events. They look like a lot of people having fun. I set here thinking some day of making a trip down just to meet some of the people and see how much fun an event is personally. THEN A day or so later decide to flip through the Ohio forums to see what's going on and it looks like Jerry Springer's back in Ohio. JERRY!!!!!!JERRY!!!!!!!JERRY!!!!!!! I agree all the drama should be left for the television networks like TNT and Law & Order. But 4 pages of it isn't letting it go is it? I also agree and hopefully this thread gets canned or let it die with old age down in page 50 of the Ohio forums. Back to fishing

Knightwriter34

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Dating and comfort levels Posted: 7/13/2007 1:49:48 PM
i dont think either party should have to "do " anything for the other to be comfortable I was poking fun at this comment. Just like anything. Set down at the computer and it should just happen that it turns on and does what you wish it to do to make you feel comfortable using the computer, not happening without DOING something yourself to make it happen. Get hungry and want a meal, without DOING something yourself to make it happen, the meal isn't going to cook itself. So if I want to be comfortable with the person I'm with, I'm going to DO what is neccessary to make sure THEY are comfortable with being comfortable with me, and not expect it to just happen.

Knightwriter34

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Free Local Drama Classes Posted: 7/13/2007 1:03:38 PM
If this thread, and the high school thread, and the private or public thread, or certain other threads are results of going to events and meeting other fish, then I'm STILL glad I haven't travelled to Columbus or wherever the events are located to attend at least ONE. I'm not slamming the organizers of the events, my hat's off to them for hosting them. From the looks of things they DEFINITELY have their work cut out for them. I haven't met any one posting to this thread in person. If everybody is being as honest on here as they would be in person, I question whether I would WANT to meet some in person. If this is what socializing in Ohio is like, then I'm better off staying home and minding my own. Less Chaos, drama (dang tried real hard not to add "drama" to the thread), he said she said he said that she said that another one said the he said that she said that he said. A round for everybody......on me.......non-alcaholic for those that don't play well with others when mixing alcahol in. Mine is pepsi on the rocks!

Knightwriter34

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Dating and comfort levels Posted: 7/13/2007 12:07:49 PM
I agree with you and see your point. After a long day of work and she comes home tired and aching: "Would you be a dear and rub my feet, they really hurt" HE!! NO, do it your own self. I know my couch is comfy, since I know that's where I'd be sleeping tonight. While either party ISN'T doing anything to make the other feel comfortable, that helps spawn the He/She doesn't do this or this for me, and back to the drawing board! Sort of like the whole do unto others theory. I guess you wouldn't want the partner to feel comfortable with you doing things for them to feel comfortable then? I KNEW I was doing something wrong.

Knightwriter34

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Dating and comfort levels Posted: 7/13/2007 11:35:15 AM
It's always awkwards in the beginning! What to say without saying too little or too much? What to do without doing too little or too much? If worrying about how soon do you think it's a problem, then that's opening the door for expectations of problems. There is no right answer to that question. As for what kind of things do you do to help the other person feel comfortable, isn't that part of being in a relationship, being thoughtful of the person you are with? To be able to know that the other person is comfortable with you for whatever reasons? It's also a 2 way street here. People want and expect to be able to be comfortable with the other person, but what are they doing for the other person to make them feel comfortable and want to be comfortable with YOU! Borrowing from JFK (with my own addition) Ask not what your partner can do for you, but what you can do for your partner!

Knightwriter34

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Have you ever learned something from a movie? Posted: 7/13/2007 11:20:13 AM
Should you decide to defuse a bomb, don't worry which wire to cut. You will always choose the right one. Mel Gibson didn't cut the right wire in Lethal Weapon 3 I think it was.

Knightwriter34

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Meeting mom on the 1st date! Posted: 7/12/2007 10:30:35 PM
And yes, I'm definitly scared of comitting to something that might not be right - I've got a young Daughter that I keep in mind, I'm really really worried about not finding a good match Another example of someone wanting one thing, expecting the worst, and getting the 2 mixed up and scaring away what could be a possible CATCH of all catches. Then the child sees mom getting scared of taking a chance and learns from mom, that being scared of taking a chance is right. Being scared of chancing things is going to scare off a "good match". That's what dating is "taking chances" So the guy is happy and tells his mom, she might have asked him how things are with the love life. Would you rather him tell his mom something bad about you instead? If I was dating someone and they mentioned me to their mom, dad, or both, I'd feel pretty good about it that she's happy enough with me she's told her parents. I'd even meet the parents if asked.

Knightwriter34

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Are people these days 'too picky'... Posted: 7/12/2007 5:15:57 PM
Picky people Kind of like someone playing the lottery, some day their selection of numbers MIGHT hit, but how long are they going to keep trying for just that same selection of numbers before they change the numbers a bit and try something different? The selected numbers may hit today, tomorrow, 10 years from now or they not hit in this person's life time. Was it worth it to the person to stick to picky and playing the same numbers that didn't hit in this life time? 10 years from now, if anyone is still looking for that ONE person, will their choices today be the same as they are 10 years from now, when they are still looking for the right match or are they going to change a bit, since for whatever reason the preferences in someone physically just isn't working out? I'm going to leave my options open still and the picture of my perfect match is still a blank picture, since I still have no clue who she will be until AFTER we meet and things work out, and one thing leads to another and after a while when we're still seeing each other, the picture will become clearer as to who my perfect match is.

Knightwriter34

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When the words just come..... Posted: 7/12/2007 4:34:56 PM
Fresh off the press just wrote it. SO, the first rough draft of it. Ghost of dating past The day we met I will never forget It’s now a part of history I was interested in you And everything that you do And you were interested in me We started out with a clean slate On our first date That’s where our past begins I don’t want to be compared To other guys that have cared I don’t want to be a Ghost of dating past A ghost of dating past can be Anyone that you seen Before we met on that first date So I don’t want to be judged Or our history smudged By a ghost from dating past When you think about me You will clearly see I’m not that other guy I won’t leave you with questioning Or wondering The biggest question is why I will be honest with you And I’d be there for you But let the ghost of dating past Die

Knightwriter34

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Questions for the Ladies Posted: 7/11/2007 9:33:48 AM
Writes that on the calendar. Jackie made me laugh! See there truely is a first time for everything. Thanks Jackie. Along with... maybe her husband or boyfriend came home from his business trip! That would be my luck!

Knightwriter34

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Questions for the Ladies Posted: 7/11/2007 9:20:17 AM
It just reminds me of those Cingular commercials with the dropped calls. If communication is going smooth back and forth, and you both lose track of time from talking for hours on end at a time and it's still trouble free chat, then BAM the chat gets dropped on about the 3rd or 4th day with no real cause or reason for it to get dropped, that's what I'm talking about.

Knightwriter34

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Questions for the Ladies Posted: 7/11/2007 8:45:32 AM
What I mean by perceived as GOOD, is chatting 3 or 4 days in a row, a couple of the days chatting up a storm from about noon or 1 in the afternoon, to about 3 or 4 AM. Lots of laughing, talking, having fun with conversations, and then just BAM the chat drops off the face of the earth and then complete silence. The conversations consisting of the stuff that brings about the saying "Time flies when you're having fun".

Knightwriter34

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Is Passion and Desire at its greatest at the start of a relationship or does it grow? Posted: 7/11/2007 8:16:09 AM
That's what makes it nice, being able to agree to disagree (without getting strung up for it) With the same fireworks display mentioned, that's why you don't rush up to a firework that you saw the wick burn or start, but didn't go BANG. It may not be a dud, but just a delayed BANG that you will have wished you would have waited for before giving up on it. It may blow up in your face when you least expect it.

Knightwriter34

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Have you ever learned something from a movie? Posted: 7/11/2007 3:53:10 AM
about 80% and 20% or something. Might be 20% bored and 80% or something. It's still fun reading through vintage threads.

Knightwriter34

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Do you? Do they? Posted: 7/11/2007 3:48:52 AM
treat the other person with courtesy and respect? ...listen to what they have to say, REALLY listen? ...let them know you care about their thoughts and feelings? ...tell them what they mean to you? ...open yourself up emotionally without holding back? ...make them feel special and important? ...care enough to notice when something is wrong and ask about it? ...discuss issues instead of assuming the other person can read your mind and know what is wrong? Isn't that what makes a person a thoughtful person whether a relationship or friendship? I do all the above with anybody I know. With the certain someone within a relationship, sure it would be done differently, but YEP it's still the same YES answers to all of the above.

Knightwriter34

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What happened to optimism Posted: 7/11/2007 3:33:45 AM
If history repeats itself, hopefully optimism makes a comeback along with common courtesy, and some of the other stuff that could REALLY be helpful in modern day living and dating sites.

Knightwriter34

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Have you ever learned something from a movie? Posted: 7/11/2007 3:25:09 AM
I still use a lot of movie parts as references. Quite a few movies have made me think about things or think differently about things.

Knightwriter34

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To all the new fishes out there.. .what would you tell them? Posted: 7/11/2007 3:22:51 AM
Be careful where you swim, someone peed in the pond.

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How can you tell someone is in love? Posted: 7/11/2007 3:15:53 AM
When they are 76 and 70, and still attempt to slow dance (easy at that age) to a song of their time they first met and have danced the same dance during every one of their 20, 30, 40 (however many years together) anniversary.

Knightwriter34

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Is Passion and Desire at its greatest at the start of a relationship or does it grow? Posted: 7/11/2007 3:07:34 AM
Like a 4th of July fireworks display, you wouldn't send off the grand finale at the very start of the show would you, nobody would wait around to see what the grand finale is like, because it's already been set off! or Reading the ending of a book at the beginning, or watching the ending of a movie without watching the whole movie. It will end before it even starts. Something may happen a year or so into a relationship that puts a whole new spotlight or refreshes the reasons why you like him/her in the first place. I'll take my chances and hope to find someone that wants to build a relationship. I do recall being told by a few to take my time and don't rush into things. If someone is expecting the BIG BANG the chemistry to hit at the very beginning, before the first hellos are swapped, isn't that rushing into things?

Knightwriter34

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Success stories...... Posted: 7/11/2007 2:51:52 AM
LONG LIVE SOME POSITIVE THREADS!

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Questions for the Ladies Posted: 7/11/2007 2:43:33 AM
Digging through the vintage Ohio threads, I figured I'd revive this one with a NEW question for the Ladies. Why, when talking with someone on here, and it carries over into yahoo or msn messenger, and the conversation is going full steam ahead GOOD, freeze up and drop the conversation like a bad habit and go silent with the person, and leave them hang and wonder what the heck just happened? This has happened twice already and it's making me wonder about the whole online thing. I see profiles with "value honesty" and don't want head games, yet they have no problem delivering them, isn't that a bit rude and unfair to the person that gets left hanging?

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so, why are you still single? Posted: 7/10/2007 12:24:55 PM
I refuse to turn dating into rocket science, I guess that would be why I'm still single.

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Singles with children... Posted: 7/10/2007 8:04:46 AM
Nothing wrong with that! Never 'settle'. I'm forever grateful that she never settled for less than the best either She never settled for less than the best, BUT she DID " settle " She settled, because she found herself the good guy, liked what she had, and felt the need to call off the dogs on the search for THE ONE. How did she know he was the best? She didn't until she gave him the chance to prove it to her. She also gave the never been married and clueless when it came to children in him "a chance" and didn't narrow the window of opportunity based on if he had kids or not.

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Singles with children... Posted: 7/8/2007 11:30:29 PM
Some people seem to have the bar of their standards set high enough an elephant could do the limbo rock under it and not touch the bar. Close the doors of opportunity and narrow the possibilities of finding someone, by narrowing the field of possible mates to those with kids. If a single guy can't accept you AND the daughter as the whole package, then he's not worth fretting over. There's guys out there that would date a single parent with no problems. A single GUY parent at one point had no kids to begin with, so what makes him so different now that he has a kid or 2? Other than the fact he has a kid or 2? Somewhere along the way he learned to raise the kid. A guy that dates a single parent and puts the parent between a rock and a hard place, when given the choice of more time with him or the kid isn't worth the time period. I'm a single guy with no kids, yes some day in this life time I would like to have kids, whether my own or someone else's, it doesn't really matter. Because either or, I would accept the kid or kids as part of the WHOLE picture!

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Singles with children... Posted: 7/8/2007 3:47:37 AM
Brad Paisley: He Didn't Have To Be When a single mom goes out on a date with somebody new It always winds up being more like a job interview My mama used to wonder if she'd ever meet someone That wouldn't find out about me and then turn around and run I met the man I call my dad when I was 5 years old He took my mom out to the movies and for once I got to go A few months later I remember lying there in bed I overheard him pop the question and I prayed that she'd say yes And then, all of a sudden oh it seemed so strange to me How we went from somethin's missin to a family Looking back all I can say about all the things he did for me Is I hope I'm at least half the dad He didn't have to be I met the girl that's now my wife about 3 years ago We have the perfect marrriage but we wanted somethin more Now here I stand surrounded by my family and friends Crowded round the nursery window and they bring the baby in And now all of a sudden oh it seems so strange to me How we've gone from somethin's missin to a family Looking through the glass I think about the man that's standin next to me And I hope I'm at least half the dad He didn't have to be cuz he didnt' have to be you know, he didn't have to be Awesome song for such an occasion as this. If you don't give the single person with no kids a chance, how do you know for sure he/she won't make a great parental substitute for the missing parent? 2 of the 3 (short lived) relationships I've been in were with single mothers. Myself, I may not have kids of my own, but I've been told by quite a few I'd make a great dad some day. Maybe change the selection of guys that you date a little so that maybe you find one that DOES understand the parental responsibilities, instead of deciding that most single men with no kids(which turns into ALL men sooner or later) don't understand the role of being a parent.

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Do You Like Flowers On A First Date? Posted: 7/7/2007 10:09:56 AM
I've given girls flowers for as long as I can remember. I remember as a kid whenever I would go to play down the road from where I lived, I would raid my mom's flower bed and bring my neighborhood sweetheart a couple of flowers. We were 1st graders back then. Times have changed, and so have the ways of dating. On a first meet, I hold off on giving flowers until I find out what kind she likes through idle chit chat. Then if there's a date that happens, THEN I break out with flowers. I'll continue to give flowers to someone on a first date, 2nd or 3rd for that matter, or whenever the timing is just right to add that little touch to the moment and get the AWWWWWW thank you response.

Knightwriter34

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Great Lakes Renaissance Faire Posted: 7/5/2007 3:57:02 PM
Is anyone else going to the Great Lakes Medieval Fair?

Knightwriter34

Joined: 9/21/2006

Msg: 17 (view)

Great Lakes Renaissance Faire Posted: 7/3/2007 1:16:38 PM
The Great Lakes Medieval Fair opens this weekend. I might make it to opening day (7th)

Knightwriter34

Joined: 9/21/2006

Msg: 214 (view)

Clues that he's an online player .. Posted: 7/3/2007 7:57:21 AM
I used to wear my class ring on my ring finger on the left hand. NEVER been married, but I wore a ring on THE finger. Send up the red flags! Lives two hours away, you offer to make the trip every once in awhile to lessen his burden and get a no. Hiding something definitely. The first person I met from on here lived far enough away, but in order for HER to come visit ME in my area, she wanted me to help her with a tank of gas. I thought OK why not. Then to for her to come again, she wanted help AGAIN with gas. That's when the NO came flying out. Oh wait this is Clues that HE's an online player. Sorry misunderstood and just shared a SHE moment. If more people put as much energy and thought into finding a date on here as they do worrying about he's an online player, she's an online player, the prospects of finding a date would increase a bit.

Knightwriter34

Joined: 9/21/2006

Msg: 54 (view)

If you don't know I'm not telling you. Posted: 7/1/2007 2:27:20 AM
If it's so blatantly obvious, then the answer should be blatantly available! Being that myself as a guy wouldn't do something to upset anyone intentionally, I'd leave you pouting and throwing tantrums, and when you feel better afterwards, THEN come and talk to me. BLATANTLY

Knightwriter34

Joined: 9/21/2006

Msg: 49 (view)

If you don't know I'm not telling you. Posted: 6/30/2007 8:41:08 PM
That I will agree with.

Knightwriter34

Joined: 9/21/2006

Msg: 11 (view)

let's remember Posted: 6/30/2007 8:19:03 PM
Like the shirt I'm waiting on. If you can read this thank a teacher If it's in English thank a veteran

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