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<blockquote data-quote="Chrysoula" data-source="post: 313333" data-attributes="member: 5662">*cough cough* I can't stop myself. I feel compelled to point out that people's lives can suck /despite/ making the 'right' choices. Mistakes don't make a sucky life. Bad luck might. Outlook and wisdom can HELP a sucky life be more tolerable, but nobody here has, as far as I can tell, given us much idea of what their outlook and approach is, and that good outlook doesn't actually change the fact that, plainly speaking, some lives are pretty unpleasant to live.&quot;Isn't the point of a gf that it's a temporary thing?&quot; All I can do is stare at that blankly, think of the friends I have who dated for /ten years/, including buying a house together, before getting married, and, um, hrm, at least two friends with mothers who lived with their boyfriends for twenty years, including most of said friends' childhoods...&quot;Isn't the point of a gf that it's a temporary thing?&quot;(Shhh! You don't TELL them that! You'll be drummed out of the secret society! We want them to think it's permanent! How else can we...)&quot;In our modern world, we have this thing we like to call 'getting to know somebody before getting engaged'. It's kind of archaic and definitely tedious, but we like it.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chrysoula, post: 313333, member: 5662"] *cough cough* I can't stop myself. I feel compelled to point out that people's lives can suck /despite/ making the 'right' choices. Mistakes don't make a sucky life. Bad luck might. Outlook and wisdom can HELP a sucky life be more tolerable, but nobody here has, as far as I can tell, given us much idea of what their outlook and approach is, and that good outlook doesn't actually change the fact that, plainly speaking, some lives are pretty unpleasant to live. [B][/B] "Isn't the point of a gf that it's a temporary thing?" All I can do is stare at that blankly, think of the friends I have who dated for /ten years/, including buying a house together, before getting married, and, um, hrm, at least two friends with mothers who lived with their boyfriends for twenty years, including most of said friends' childhoods... "Isn't the point of a gf that it's a temporary thing?" (Shhh! You don't TELL them that! You'll be drummed out of the secret society! We want them to think it's permanent! How else can we...) "In our modern world, we have this thing we like to call 'getting to know somebody before getting engaged'. It's kind of archaic and definitely tedious, but we like it." [/QUOTE]

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