Marriage and the Power of Divorce

And yeah, my wife had all of my passwords to everything. I changed the important stuff after the divorce, but didn't bother with little shit (she's using my Netflix for example).

It's actually funny because she called me the other day to say "Ohh hey, did you change your Amazon password? I was trying to order something and it was on Prime so I tried to use your account to get free shipping but couldn't get in. Can I have that?"

And I said "Ehhh, sorry, all my accounts that have credit card info and things I'm keeping to myself. Also, I don't want you seeing all the embarrassing things I order, I don't want to have to explain why I ordered 6 sexily posed mannequins for example. *har har*, but I don't mind ordering something for you if you send me a link."

She said "No, it's ok, shipping was only like $2 anyway, I'll just pay it."

So, guessing thats the last time I deal with that.

And I know I pretty much never give updates on that at all, but the Ex and I are still doing phenomenally. The only time we ever talk is when we need to for the kids, but we always end up just hanging out for 20-30 minutes and bullshitting about our lives afterwords. I got her a $50 "Thank you" gift card to Starbucks for Christmas, and just said "Thanks for making this a really easy first year, etc etc." just some platitudes. There's always going to be little things that pop up here and there, but mostly, super super smooth.

Ill have to follow this thread now. My wedding's next october. Booyah

I said the same thing when my cousin had his engagement party in July of 2013... for a wedding date of October 2015. Him and his fiancee have a lot of nerve having an engagement party and essentially asking for gifts for a wedding date over two years away. A lot can happen in two years.

I proposed April 2012 and was married September 2013. We were stationed cross-country at that point and it felt like a good time period for the engagement; she did 95 percent of the wedding planning from GA for a wedding in Seattle, while I was in CA.

If it's just a backyard wedding with a few friends/family then obviously its not that difficult to plan, but for us it was a pretty nice ordeal (expensive venue/catering, family flying in from all over...) etc etc.

Yeah, thats insane. You get a gift at the wedding. On the day. Fuck you.

I had a 5 year dating relationship and dumped her cause she got fat.

Man I miss her...

I think my engagement was about a year. I proposed on memorial day weekend and we got married the weekend after memorial day the next year. Though we didn't have an engagement party or anything. I didn't know those existed. The driving force behind my longer engagement is I wanted to propose to her but I also didn't want a rushed wedding nor did I want a winter wedding. So circling back to May made the most sense.

We didn't do an engagement party/shower either, namely because we weren't greedy fucks

We had an engagement party with a strict "no gifts" policy. It was a celebration for our friends to come and celebrate the engagement with us. Just an excuse to have people over for a fun time.

I feel all these extra parties is somewhat deprecated these days since so many people live together prior to getting married or living on their own. If we needed plates, dishes and/or pots and pans we'd own them by now because we need them to live. We had to basically make shit up for our registry we didn't even want very much since my mom's side of the family didn't want to just give cash.

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Next October?

What is with people now and these two year engagements? Did you book the super dome for the wedding and that was the soonest opening? What is the reason for waiting that long?

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What 2 years engagement?? Its just under 10 months from now. Beside, having her *entire* family in France, shit requires extra planning for the trip etc. That and we plan to pay for everything. We dont wanna be that coupple counting on whoever comes giving us the right ''donation'' to come out even of the wedding cost. Our peeps arent rolling in gold and we dont wanna ask for any help. So it also requires some mula stacking. SHiiiiiii dont question me on engagement brah!

edit, we been together 5 years. 10 months is a joke.

Snap, this mean i can play on the wording and tell her its in 2016.

Oh she be mad.

If you remain alive, please report back and tell us how that conversation went.

I'd say anything past the middle of the week is suspect. If it's Thursday and you say "Want to go to dinner next Monday?" my response would be "This coming Monday, or the following one?"

Basically, I wouldn't assume anything, I would want clarification. Now if you say "Next Monday.." on a Sunday? Don't expect me at whatever is less than 24 hours away, thats not next anything, that's tomorrow.

"Next" always implies a gap of 1. "This" implies the upcoming.


I've got a friend that will say "Sunday Next" and "Sunday This". Which is antiquated, but I think actually a more clear way to express exactly which one you're talking about. Your wife is counting by the week instead of by the day. That's valid, but confusing. Better to count by the day.