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Originally posted by Buttercup:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by BFred07:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Buttercup:
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My post was meant to be sort of bait (and I have a feeling you knew that). You should know that this "liberal" (I disagree with that label) is all about being an independent woman. I was just having a little fun with what ferrellj said in his post. I don't have a problem with strip clubs, gambling or prostitution because all are personal decisions that harm no one else.
Now, I admit I was having a little fun but there is some truth to dating/marriage-are-really-just-forms-of-prostitution, and you know it.
And I'm curious about something, Fred. You've been married 4 times and said the current wife is the "perfect woman". Didn't you think the other 3 were perfect at one time too?
No, I never thought the other ones were the "perfect woman". The first one I can mark up as teenage stupidity as we ran off and got married while we were in high school. The other two I thought at one point or the other had their awesome traits but it didn't take me long to just not like them very much. My current wife has it all, she's the only one of the herd that might actually be smarter than me, she's independent and hangs around because she wants to not because she "needs" me, she's witty, funny, interesting, a good cook, and the list could go on all day but added to all that she's pretty and to top it all off she's my best friend so yes she's the perfect woman even from a logical standpoint.
As for the whole thing about dating and marriage being a form of prostitution I am sure for SOME people there might be SOME truth to it. I know that it didn't take long to figure out that #'s 1 and 2 just wanted someone to take care of them, #2 was just a straight out gold digger. I didn't stay married to number 3 long enough to know but I doubt it was the case there. My current wife has no need for anyone to take care of her. When we met she was a fairly successful single lady with one child. I would say that for her and her child to have moved in together with me and my 3 kids was in any way someone's idea of being taken care of then they would need to have their head examined.
Now darnit, I've gotten off topic from the drug thing so i'll throw this in for good measure. #2 was on more prescription drugs than I can count (I didn't know this until after we were married and I went to get a one a day vitamin from my usually bare medicine cabinet and found all the shelves stuffed full, should have annulled that one) She was way over-prescribed, she went to some quack Dr over in the medical mall in Muscle Shoals and that Dr had given her prescriptions for Xanax (90 per month), lorcet, methadone, seroquel, lexapro,some muscle relaxer that I cannot remember the name of, and a few other drugs for mental health. Personally I think that if it is not criminal for a Dr to prescribe so much crap that it should be and this Dr should be locked away as I understand he is popular with people looking for pain killers and such. Anyway, she was on what I guess you would call a "good spell" while we were dating and I had no clue about the drug abuse or that she was crazy and have to wonder that if she would not have been on so many drugs would her mental issues have even existed. She had been diagnosed with several different things. The only ones I can remember are bi-polar disorder and paranoid personality disorder but there was a whole list of other things followed by the word "disorder". After a suicide attempt (not her first, there was another before we met). She was off of all the drugs for a couple of months and seemed to be doing a lot better but after a couple months her Dr starting giving her the prescriptions again, even xanax which was what she used for the suicide attempt. On the first day of taking the meds again she regressed back into her crazy ways and I filed for divorce a few weeks later.
My point is that Dr's who over-prescribe these type meds so much should be held accountable. I realize that Dr's are like everyone else and sometimes make honest mistakes and I do not think if their mistake costs someone life or limb that they should loose everything but at the same time the Dr's who send their patients away with goodie bags filled with scripts for pain killers, xanax, etc should be punished severely as they are no better than a street corner drug dealer.