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06-15-2009, 06:12 PM
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Re: Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage
How can you be so sure, PO? Do you have a source? 
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06-15-2009, 06:15 PM
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Re: Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage
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How can you be so sure, PO? Do you have a source? |
That's the thing!!! The sources don't make sense. My husband and I have been married for 22 years, this August. We haven't changed since we were 16 years old.
I keep reading about the flipping out hot flashes and all the downhill stuff - it just doesn't make sense! I'm sitting here waiting to fall apart, though.  The statistics are against me. 
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06-15-2009, 06:23 PM
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Re: Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage
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That's the thing? The sources don't make sense. My husband and I have been married for 22 years, this August. We haven't changed since we were 16 years old.
I keep reading about the flipping out hot flashes and all the downhill stuff - it just doesn't make sense! I'm sitting here waiting to fall apart, though. The statistics are against me. |
Wellllll...I doubt if Mark Gungor just pulled that figure out of thin air. He seems like a pretty intelligent guy who has done his research. I'm sure there are exceptions to every statistic, though.
I've read other books that stated men have their sexual peak in their late teens, early 20's, and women have theirs around their 30's. I didn't personally do the research--that's just what I've read.
Regardless, I think the point is understanding that men and women are generally different, and have different sexual needs and peaks. Ergo, to have a healthy marriage, you have to understand how your spouse differs from you.
Sounds like everything's working great for you and your husband, so no need to worry about it!!!! 
I have a friend who is already going through menopause in her 20's. She and her husband took the advice of her doctor, and had a baby sooner than they had planned, because she may not be able to conceive much longer. So obviously there are people who "fall apart" earlier--and some a lot earlier--than others.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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06-15-2009, 06:31 PM
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Re: Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage
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Wellllll...I doubt if Mark Gungor just pulled that figure out of thin air. He seems like a pretty intelligent guy who has done his research. I'm sure there are exceptions to every statistic, though.
I've read other books that stated men have their sexual peak in their late teens, early 20's, and women have theirs around their 30's. I didn't personally do the research--that's just what I've read.
Regardless, I think the point is understanding that men and women are generally different, and have different sexual needs and peaks. Ergo, to have a healthy marriage, you have to understand how your spouse differs from you.
Sounds like everything's working great for you and your husband, so no need to worry about it!!!!
I have a friend who is already going through menopause in her 20's. She and her husband took the advice of her doctor, and had a baby sooner than they had planned, because she may not be able to conceive much longer. So obviously there are people who "fall apart" earlier--and some a lot earlier--than others.
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All that stuff is just depressing. I don't want that in my life. I'd run out in front of a bus or something. 
I think some people just want to have problems and so they do.
What was that stupid book my mother was reading when I was growing up? Oh, I'm Okay, You're Okay
Just live and forget about it! That's my motto!
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06-15-2009, 07:07 PM
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Re: Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage
Funny!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuMZ73mT5zM
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06-15-2009, 08:19 PM
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Re: Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage
Yes! I love the Nothing Box illustration.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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06-15-2009, 08:22 PM
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Re: Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage
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ILG,
I'm listening to "Men's Sex Drive" and he is saying that a man's sexual drive peaks at 18 and goes down from there. I'm sorry, but that is just not true.
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Did you see his chart? Ya gotta see the chart!!!!!
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06-15-2009, 08:27 PM
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Re: Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage
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Did you see his chart? Ya gotta see the chart!!!!!
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I didn't see the chart! Do you have a video link?
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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06-15-2009, 08:32 PM
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Re: Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage
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I didn't see the chart! Do you have a video link?
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I'm not sure what video it's in anymore but he starts drawing showing a man at 18
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And then shows his sex drive drop off with a line that you expect to look like this:
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But instead looks like this *--------
It's hilarious because although he says it drops off, on the chart if it drops at all, you'd need a magnifying glass to see it! LOL!!
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06-15-2009, 08:34 PM
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Re: Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage
OOOOHhhhhhh!!!! LOL!!!!! Cute!
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"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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