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Originally Posted by GreekGirley
DROLEFILLE - you mention that I only spoke of what the woman would give to the man (in the convo about 'saving' something special for him and ONLY him), but that I didn't make mention that he would have to give her ANYTHING...and seemed bothered by that. Well, I'll offer 2 points:
1. I am not a man, and was speaking from a woman's point of view.
2. When a man marries a women, he offers his name (surname) to her - which states to the whole world that he wants to be known as her husband. I think that's a pretty big deal.
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1) Your username pretty much gave away the fact that you're not a man.
2) You think a man "offering" his last name to a woman is a huge gesture? Is it just me, or does it seem like in this regard, the woman wants to be known as his wife moreso than the man wants to be known as her husband? A man has the same name his whole life, regardless of whether or not he's married (except maybe in some rare cases). A woman goes through the trouble of changing her name, essentially bonding herself to her husband.
For example, if I walked up to two different people - Joe Smith and Nancy Jones - who I knew from high school, but they didn't remember me, and each of them introduced themselves... Joe first.. "Hi, I'm Joe Smith" ... and Nancy said, "Hi, I'm Nancy Brown" ... who do you think I'd be more inclined to ask, "Oh, so you're married?.."
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Originally Posted by KSig RC
SPECIAL THINGS MY SIGNIFICANT OTHER WILL RECEIVE ON OR IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING OUR WEDDING DAY:
1 - Access to my pogs, which have been meticulously kept and curated, and certainly will retain their value well into our 70s.
2 - Sweet, sweet cake directly into her maw then around the facial area, because that is ALWAYS funny, no matter how lame the couple.
3 - 50% of a rapidly-declining 401k.
4 - A lifetime spent staring down a super-annoying estate she'll have to break up and distribute among family she barely likes, because I will assuredly die before her.
5 - A 42% chance of divorce! (STATS ARE STATS)
6 - The admiration of most of her peers, the jealousy of quite a few, and the astonishment of the rest, because how on Earth can she put up with his shit?
7 - Cocktails. Many.
8 - A moderate sexual performance, because my ass will be exhausted, and GOTTA WAKE UP TO OPEN BLENDERS JEEEEEEZ.
9 - Biannual flowers, probably with a pithy card (typed, because handwriting is for children), delivered to her office - once at exorbitant made-up-holiday prices, and again at 70% off for a larger and more attractive bouquet on the more important date anyway.
10 - Condescension when I'm tired and she's acting like an asshole, then a rapid return to normal in the morning, likely with applicable makeup actions.
11 - Partial ownership of one (1) semi-dirty car. Comes with many miles, and an excellent set of golf clubs in the trunk.
12 - A new, warm body on her health insurance, because mine is ludicrously expensive even though I've basically never used it.
13 - 40 years of awesome, with approx. 2 years of trouble mixed in (this will be non-consecutive, but I'm assuming about 5% will be less-than-smooth sailing in some way).
CONGRATS! Good thing we didn't do these things beforehand, GOD marriage wouldn't be special.
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LOL.
I'm going to marry you for your pogs.