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Are most people in a relationship happy? |
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My parents have been together for almost forty years now. My dad has retired and my mum could easily afford to as well but she's planning on working part-time for as long as she is able to because she knows otherwise she'd probably end up killing him. She's a member of a few groups, like a rambling club, that get her out of the house so I guess one of the key things for a long-term relationship is not to lose sight of being your own person and spending time apart pursuing your own interests and hobbies. I think lockdown is going a bit better than she expected, though. |
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Great thread. Probably not a helpful contribution, but this is massively down to individual experience. I find it hard to generalise across people. |
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I've always seemed to effortlessly end up in new relationships, not to brag or anything, but I just seem to have something that makes it easy to slip into a new partnership relatively quickly. I've not stayed single for longer than about six months over the last decade. But with that said, I've yet to experience the complete all encompassing love some people seem to. With the exception of perhaps my first girlfriend, who I adored, betrayed me, and probably ultimately is responsible for the fact I haven't felt anything nearly as strong since. But that's a different conversation. |
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Wherever you go, there you are. Happy people generally have happy relationships; miserable people generally have miserable relationships. A lot of people think that a relationship will save them from themselves, but it doesn't work like that. However much time you spend with your partner, you've got to live with yourself 24/7. |
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No. I picked the wrong girl and bitterly regret it. |
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I once got flak for buying chocolate for a lady (and her family) while on a business trip, the crime was that I'd gotten milk chocolate when she 'only ate' dark. I think a lot of lads would appease here, I used to do that all the time to keep the peace. This time though, I told her to stop being a bitch and appreciate at least that I got a gift while on a short business trip. |
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charity.png These stories sound like you would have been better off buying no gift at all. I'm not sure I like the moral here. The best I can come up with is that these people were always ungrateful of the energy put into making them happy and these events just highlighted their flaws. |
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Yeah this kind of person is the epitome of ‘if you are bored than you are boring’. And online dating seems full of them. And they always tell you they are bored. The most recent one I half assumed they were some sort of scammer their conversation was so basic and lacking of input. |
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Why are you lads acting like only lasses don't have hobbies? Granted there are many women who think trying different flavours of gin is a personality trait but I know plenty of lads who have little interests beyond consuming media. |
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1584176551195.jpg A person i once knew used to say "when you get to my age, men are like parking spaces. The good ones are taken and all that's left are disabled". A nasty sentiment, but one that probably has some truth to it. |
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I hate to make it sound elitist but it ultimately comes down to dating above or below your intelligence bracket a lot of the time. We say it's dull lasses who don't have hobbies, but really they do- They just seem trivial or trite to us. Like putting sticks in jars. And likewise, as some of you have mentioned, lads who probably have a unique thought approximately once a week, but could probably reel off the entire premiership league table on the spot if you asked them. |
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>you may feel there's social stigma involved in a failed relationship |
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I think starting working class and ending up making decent money is the way to go. I know the value of money, live comfortably without being too aspirational, and still give off the vibe that you should probably pick someone else to mug when I'm walking down the street. |
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Tarquin is a stereotypically upper class name, to boot. |
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I just caught myself going through the Facebook profile of someone who I was acquainted with as a teenlad. I found myself judging them for not "growing up" in the past 15 years, which was based squarely on what he was wearing, his hairstyle and the expressions he was pulling. |
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Ugh, stop talking about exes lads, I haven't been able to stop thinking about what a cock hungry slag my ex was when I wasn't arguing the toss with her over where the TV remote lives. Totally different quality to my current bird, who is by all accounts much more suited to me in terms of personality, and overall just has tons more depth as a person... But she just doesn't have the sexual je ne sais quoi, you know? |
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My friend has had a massive bust-up with her husband because going on maternity leave means she's not been able to cover her half of the mortgage and bills. He's expecting her to pay this back, with interest, when she returns to work and he won't accept a deduction from this for the amount saved in nursery fees because "I'm not paying for you to look after our child." |
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I've always found it a bit weird when couples in long-term relationships don't share their finances and instead pay into a joint account 50:50 for bills and keep everything else for themselves. |
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I guess this thread is as good as any. My girlfriend has told me quite a few horror stories about her mum, mainly about her being emotionally abusive and violent when she was growing up, but they have a reasonably close relationship now; I suspect this is because my girlfriend has always wanted love and validation from her parents and her mum doesn't really have anyone else anyone else to talk to. However, she's mentioned a few times that I never make any effort to talk to her mum. Whilst this is true I'm not rude or uncivil towards her; I've just never found the words to tell my girlfriend that I've no interest in pretending to be friends with the woman who used to regularly slap her around and who told her to shut up and never mention it again when she plucked up the courage to tell her she was being sexually abused. What would you lads do in this scenario? |
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How do you manage finances when you're in a relationship? I thought we were on the same page, but my girlfriend got a job around Easter after being a stay at home mum for years and I've no idea where all of our money is going now. We managed alright beforehand, but there's been a few months since she started working where I've been worried we won't have enough to make ends meet. There's currently about £18 in the bank account to last until she gets paid tomorrow. October is a bad month because that's when the car insurance and my MOT/service are due, but I don't know how much weight I put into that because you can probably look at our accounts most months and there'll be items you can chalk up as exceptional one-offs. I know inflation has shot up but I don't see how an extra £1,200 a month can be lost to lifestyle creep, yet here we are. |
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What is your relationship like with your in-laws? I don't really have to deal with her dad because they have a strained relationship (>>/job/5948) but I find her mum infuriating, to the point that she's by far the worst aspect of my relationship with her daughter. |
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I know social media should be taken with a pinch of salt, but in the space of about a week a couple of women I know have made gushing anniversary posts when every single time I meet them they're complaining about their partners and have come extremely close to breaking up with them on several occasions. Maybe it's only the people in shitty relationships who feel the need to make posts like that. |
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Do most men actually want kids or do they have them primarily because their partners do? |
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It turns out a couple I know who are always posting Instagram-style pictures together with their kids all over social media, making out like they're a super happy family living the perfect life, are divorcing. Funny that. |
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