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Mark, of course you are being HEARD. We just don't know what to say to you sometimes and how to respond. Besides, it's like when I would sing karaoke after a friend of mine, who should have been paid to sing,"How can I follow THAT?"
You were given Props on another thread along with JL and Gloveoil and the rest of us apparently are just "noise". sob, cry, wail, okay I'm over it.
Your posts take a lot of time to absorb. Maybe some people are just slower than others and they will "get it" next week/month or year. HEHEHEHE
Your posts are amazing and I LOVE the addition to any thread. There are A LOT of people who are great posters on here, some just don't use so many words to get their point across. You're one cool dude, if I may say.
A: "I think you should ____ and definitely ___ and maybe even ___ because this article <Insert link here> describes what you need to do clearly and even gives you the reasons WHY it is what you should do."
Q: "Yeah, I read that. I understand what you are saying exactly. Thanks so much for that link, it is a great help. So, now what do you think I should do."
A: "I still think you should do ____ and ____ and probably ___ as well."
Q: "Yeah, you are probably right. But in my situation what would be the right thing to do?"
A: "Follow the Plan outlined in SAA or in this thread here <link>."
Q: Yeah but what about MY situation?"
A: "I thought we addressed that already. Here let me repeat this for you in case you missed it [quote previous post] [Quote additional supporting information] [quote another previous explanation]"
Q: "Got it. Thanks!"
Q: You know, I was thinking about this ___ and ___ and even the ___ everyone says I should do, but I don't think it fits or applies or actually addresses my problem very well, so instead I'm gonna do %^&^&%"
Q: "Well, my H/W is moving out this weekend to live with AP. Anybody know what I should do?"
I know you like Newhart Mark, just put this in all your replies. (stolen from redeem-mes thread)
Me 56 Former BS Widowed 5-17-09 --married 25 years. 4 children DS-35 previous marriage--18-22 DGrandSons 6 and 4 Me former BS DD-29 with DGDs 5 and 1yr DSs 26 and 23 Teilhard de Chardin..“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” ...Sounds about right to me.
A: "I think you should ____ and definitely ___ and maybe even ___ because this article <Insert link here> describes what you need to do clearly and even gives you the reasons WHY it is what you should do."
Q: "Yeah, I read that. I understand what you are saying exactly. Thanks so much for that link, it is a great help. So, now what do you think I should do."
A: "I still think you should do ____ and ____ and probably ___ as well."
Q: "Yeah, you are probably right. But in my situation what would be the right thing to do?"
A: "Follow the Plan outlined in SAA or in this thread here <link>."
Q: Yeah but what about MY situation?"
A: "I thought we addressed that already. Here let me repeat this for you in case you missed it [quote previous post] [Quote additional supporting information] [quote another previous explanation]"
Q: "Got it. Thanks!"
Q: You know, I was thinking about this ___ and ___ and even the ___ everyone says I should do, but I don't think it fits or applies or actually addresses my problem very well, so instead I'm gonna do %^&^&%"
Q: "Well, my H/W is moving out this weekend to live with AP. Anybody know what I should do?"
A:
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Thanks! You made my day by capturing this so well.
Me:BW, FWH 1DD 1DS Status: Chronicled in Dr. Suess's "The Zax"
QA: "I thought we addressed that already. Here let me repeat this for you in case you missed it [quote previous post] [Quote additional supporting information] [quote another previous explanation]"
Mark, Mark, Mark! Its so much more fun to come here and post about specific conflicts for years and years [or until divorced, whichever comes first] than actually follow the program. Do you know nothing!?
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.." Theodore Roosevelt
I know you like Newhart Mark, just put this in all your replies. (stolen from redeem-mes thread)
That is hilarious!!
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.." Theodore Roosevelt
Your threads, your responses, your comments are all well thought out and helpful. You are a valuable source and I read and re read your stuff all the time.
I love that they are long and wordy cause I love to read and get all the goodies out.
Please do not ever change. PLEASE!
Now, if I could ever learn how to post smilies from other places I could join in the emoticon game.
BW-me-56 FWH-GreenMile-62 Married 1982 2 wonderful grown sons
D Day #1 4/1985 D Day #2 10/03/08 D Days continued for a while.
I also LOVE when I go to the states and I ask for ketchup for my fries, I always get looks. Don't worry, I get looks here too because I put ketchup on my Poutine. I think I have a problem. Is there a ketchup Anonymous meeting anywhere? HAHAHAHAHAHA
Ketchup chips sounds gross to me but you get looks for putting ketchup on your fries here in the US? Down here in the good old heartland (yes HEARTland, suck it up the rest of y'all) you get looks if you don't put ketchup on your fries, eggs or just about anything else. I don't like the stuff myself but if I did I would draw the line at ketchup on tacos although I have certainly seen it.
I had to look up Poutine, never heard of it. Hmmm, you put ketchup on stuff with cheese and brown gravy? You and our former president Ronald Reagan would have been pals because he considered ketcup sandwiches nutritious enough for schools to serve, ya know. Ketchup is a vegetable?????
BW-me-56 FWH-GreenMile-62 Married 1982 2 wonderful grown sons
D Day #1 4/1985 D Day #2 10/03/08 D Days continued for a while.
I cannot eat french fries without ketchup, but never even heard of putting it on potato chips....My DS would prolly love that though...He puts ketchup on pretty much everything from veggies to steak...I go through so much ketchup in my house, just from DS...Now Heinz put out a new ketchup without the high fructose corn syrup..It is delicious and healthier for DS esp since he consumes so much of it.
BW me-41 WH -39 DS - 9 married 12 Yrs together(?) 18 yrs when A discovered DDay aug 2007 found MB dec 2007 Moved out april 2008 still seeing OW Plan B
Now Heinz put out a new ketchup without the high fructose corn syrup..
This is so funny ~ I am kind of a health nut so as soon as I saw "ketchup", I was thinking this too. I was so happy when I found out they had this version We have tried to eliminate hf corn syrup from our home...
Your threads, your responses, your comments are all well thought out and helpful. You are a valuable source and I read and re read your stuff all the time.
I love that they are long and wordy cause I love to read and get all the goodies out.
Please do not ever change. PLEASE!
Now, if I could ever learn how to post smilies from other places I could join in the emoticon game.
Come on now, we gotta get u in the smiley games here. I LOVE FUNNY SMILIES!!!! If you google free smileys or free emoticons you will get tons of websites....heres one I use, but I have tons of them.... smileys Just copy and past the HTML code...Now start smiling!
BW me-41 WH -39 DS - 9 married 12 Yrs together(?) 18 yrs when A discovered DDay aug 2007 found MB dec 2007 Moved out april 2008 still seeing OW Plan B
I cannot eat french fries without ketchup, but never even heard of putting it on potato chips....My DS would prolly love that though...He puts ketchup on pretty much everything from veggies to steak...I go through so much ketchup in my house, just from DS...Now Heinz put out a new ketchup without the high fructose corn syrup..It is delicious and healthier for DS esp since he consumes so much of it.
I saw that, no HFCS is a wonderful thing! GM eats it some. I have to confess that I was making myself a vegetarian Indian recipe that called for tomato paste and I did not have any. I subbed ketchup and it worked really well!
BW-me-56 FWH-GreenMile-62 Married 1982 2 wonderful grown sons
D Day #1 4/1985 D Day #2 10/03/08 D Days continued for a while.
okay I'm over it. 
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and it worked really well!