Yeah, I yelled at the screen when that ad came on too. It startled DH, who was playing Farmville And what's the the Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher movie???? This whole "let's share the most intimate thing God designed for married couples all over the place with no commitment" stuff makes me gag. Really? People REALLY think it's that simple....or that it should be???? If you're going to sleep with anything that moves, and then you marry someone who will sleep with anything that moves......well, ya get what ya get and ya don't fuss a bit.

ROFL!

How about "Hall Pass"?

I have no place to "put" this rant, but here it goes, hope you forgive when it's just too ... normal or obvious.

This is about how ill advice can actually make people in dispair feel inferior and make them discouraged by "naturally smart" people (this came from a discussion when a person claimed that some things, like normal marriage, is not learned, but it has to come naturally). There is a heated discussion about exposure in one of our local forums and it is just unbelievable how BS's are intimidated with arguments like:
- when you expose, people look at you as you are some kind of lunatic (people in dispair respond to that with solemn yes, I don't want any more stress in my life and I must be lunatic to even consider exposure!)
- when you expose, you will never get your WS back, in fact - people will start thinking "no wonder s/he is having an affair, the WS is such a b* (you are right - it is actually my fault my WS is having an affair, I didn't give him enough sex; or you are right - telling everybody the truth will be too much and my WS will never want me back - how can I be such a heartless b*. There is definitely other ways to end the affair, I have just not googled enough)
- when you tell your children, they will be traumatised for life and you are responsible (you are right - children must not know, I will die in shame and I don't want their life to be disturbed in any way, they love their father/mother, I'm not going to be the one who takes them apart)
- WE don't expose, this is for some other culture, but not us, think about it (you are right, what was I thinking...).
In short, your partner's affair will look bad on you and if you expose it will look double bad on you! In short, don't dare to act against anything your WS does right now, otherwise you will be a bad person (and who's gonna believe you anyway!) - and here runs a BS. I look at those posts in this local forum and think what on earth must be done to ENCOURAGE people. Unfortunately, we don't have any specifically marriagebuilders forums, but from time to time people armed with MB advice give their advice there. Us included. But the dominating part is still people who say that such programs are for stupid and "what happened to the world where everything came naturally". Anyway, this is just my rant. Makes me ... emm... discouraged.

Niitse, they used to say the same things here! You guys talk about exposure like its nothing, but when I was new here, people would get beat up for recommending the "lovebuster" of exposure. On my first post on Marriage Builders back in 2001 a wayward wife chastised me for wanting to put a keylogger on my H's computer.

To be fair Melody...when you joined it was still the 60's and the free love movement was still going strong.

Peace,

Mr. Wondering

This is the dawning of the age of Aquanet

Uh-oh...this isn't going to be pretty...

See the news story below ...Melody Lane is the one seated in the middle with a laptop in her lap posting away on MarriageBuilders.com (Al Gore had JUST invented the internet). The photographer was lucky enough to steal her attention away from her posting duties long enough to snap this historic picture. [please note: Mrs. W was BORN that fateful Aquanet summer]

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1969: The dawning of the "Age of Aguarius," when people were letting their hair down. Not these ladies, though. Many cans of Aqua Net and Alberto VO-5 were sacrificed for these hair creations at the 1969 Miss USA pageant. Melody Lane, the newly crowned Miss USA sits on her throne surrounded by her court, which includes one of our all time favorite first runners-up, Miss Vermont, Marital Bliss. No hurricane could have struck Miami Beach that these lovely ladies couldn't withstand. Not a hair out of place. Love it.

Enough Aquanet to stop a bullet, baby!!

Wow, its like watching Zeus and Apollo duke it out...

Can I rant about Aquanet.....Its ruined the ozone. Mel is responsible for global warming...

It's nice to see another side of some of our members. There IS a place for humor now and then among our ranks. With hair like that I guess you HAVE to have a sense of humor though.....

Maybe I am wrong, but I thought they don't believe in global warming in TX?

say what?? We also believe in Sasquatch and Santa Claus!!

Mel is neither Zeus nor Apollo.....She's.....

Haira!