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Fri 10/14/11 11:16 PM
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Fri 10/14/11 11:13 PM
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Fri 10/14/11 11:12 PM
Best Wishes to you and your father pacific star and YES to the blood donors. I too was a recipiant of blood tranfusion..actually kept me alive until my body straightened itself out...so much much love to the donors.

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Fri 10/14/11 11:07 PM
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Fri 10/14/11 11:05 PM
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Fri 10/14/11 11:04 PM


Sadly no!!! They are both gone....Passed on and missed so very much...We are not supposed to outlive them!!!! they are in my thoughts every day....


((((Booneydoggy61))))

was just thinking the same think..Pacific...
:heart: {{{Boonedoggy}} and {{{greeneyes}}}:heart:

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Fri 10/14/11 10:57 PM
yep...my kids and my grands...but aside from that...nope ohwell

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Fri 10/14/11 10:55 PM
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Fri 10/14/11 12:10 AM
waving Welcome Something..nice write...like Up2 says...I am feeling the flow.

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Fri 10/14/11 12:02 AM



I think the younger generation is more open and accepting of people who dont fit the traditional roles.

thank you Penny...I think you are right. the younger generation truly is more tolerant and accepting than even my generation was about alot of things, including non-traditional unions/families...it is uplifting to see/witness.

What I am wondering is, do you, for example, have a son, nephew, etc or know a young man who is just naturally, comfortably and efficiently playing the traditional femimine nurturing roles...not because he is 'stuck home with the kids'...or who doesn't say things such as.."I have to babysit cause their mother has to work"?
My son is 18 adores his niece and nephew. Hehas helped care for them many times whether it be changing a diaper playing with them or even occasionally getting up with them a night. . . Simply because he loves them and enjoys spending time with them. Not because he is required to. . . and they love their Uncle Bubba :)

:thumbsup: I love that.:heart: He'll make a great daddy someday...if that is what he chooses...being a great uncle is just as important.

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Thu 10/13/11 11:57 PM
Yes please I say..without thinking much about it...and realize I am smiling that 'I feel so good and sexy at this moment'smile.


Okay folks you gotta join in..making rara and I (thank you rara) do all the work.rant it's just a silly little romance story...what happens next? use your imagination...get silly with us.

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Thu 10/13/11 11:27 PM

Are you comparing social evolution or plain evolution? Men and women change the same with normal evolution. Social evolution is different.

figured someone would call me out on that :tongue: ...so, to save any further discussion on that..let's say social for now...I may come back to that though....what do you think?

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Thu 10/13/11 11:23 PM

I think the younger generation is more open and accepting of people who dont fit the traditional roles.

thank you Penny...I think you are right. the younger generation truly is more tolerant and accepting than even my generation was about alot of things, including non-traditional unions/families...it is uplifting to see/witness.

What I am wondering is, do you, for example, have a son, nephew, etc or know a young man who is just naturally, comfortably and efficiently playing the traditional femimine nurturing roles...not because he is 'stuck home with the kids'...or who doesn't say things such as.."I have to babysit cause their mother has to work"?

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Thu 10/13/11 11:00 PM

i think as times have changed, many women have had to take on the "man's role" so to speak, even if its not the role they wanted to play. many single mothers out there who have to be the bread winner, father, mother, etc... all on their own. one thing i have noticed more recently (past few years) is there are more and more men who are becoming single parents (which kudos to them!!!) and they are also finding themselves taking on the "feminine" role as having to fill in for the mother part in their lives. idk... im rambling here... just thinking outloud... :)

Thank you Madam. It's a good point. The role reversal is often based on necessity more than by choice. I know all too well the necessity of playing both roles...and I'm here to tell ya...I was/am one hell of a mom in a more modern sense of the word but overall I made a really lousy father....it is most unfortunate he could not play his role...even in the most traditional sense of the word.

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Thu 10/13/11 10:35 PM
It has always been a theory of mine, based on observation, that while women have grown in leaps and bounds over the last 50 years or so; grown, evolved out of the constraints of traditional women's roles, men have had a more difficult time adjusting.

Makes sense to me to conclude that the more 'bread winner' type roles woman have been taking on were an easier, more natural feeling advancement, then say the more 'domestic' roles men have then had to take on in order for the family unit to thrive fully...in order for there to be the all important balance.

I have also observed that with the younger generation that balance may be returning. Not because women have gone back to those roles...as really we never left them but because men are finding these roles to be as natural and empowering as a heavy duty power tool.

Do you agree? As a whole, are/were the traditional masculine roles easier for women to advance into then it has been for men to evolve into the traditionally feminine roles? Do you notice the difference in the younger generation?

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Wed 10/12/11 08:00 PM
waving Hello and welcome newly single mom. I am happy for you that you found this site...I have only recently found it and kinda wish I had found it when I was a newly single mom with 4 at home and no life outside of our activities together. Enjoy!

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Wed 10/12/11 07:33 PM
Can your right hand whisper softly in your ear all the good things you want to hear?

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Tue 10/11/11 10:50 PM
laugh lex, jeannebeanne, tngxl65 thank you so much for the giggles...I really needed that.
humor is me sometimes mostly but man I want too must be funny.:tongue:

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Sun 10/09/11 07:52 PM
aww Lex...thanks. But, you know i got kids, right? laugh flowerforyou just kidding of course. That is pretty sweet. Hope she notices your notice. You should gives us a hint maybe we can help.:wink:

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Sun 10/09/11 11:27 AM
There are some aspects of my life..where the course plotted by decisions made in the past leaves a less than desired trajectory, course corrections are in process...overall, as a person..I am relatively content with how things are going..I've continued to grow and learn through-out the years whilst developing and maintaining humility and compassion for others and hope to continue to do so.