Kingshakabooboo

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its been covered by every form of electronic media for a week. You may not have clicked on it, but its on your feed- be that your phone, desktop, laptop, or whatever. You might not have read about it, but you heard of it.

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I have to agree with Sidewalk. This post is literally the first thing I have seen about their wedding activities.

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Learn to love to spend time with your wife again. Create an environment where your son wants to bring his child to. And he will.

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This is great advice you gave him.

To the OP. Unfortunately it seems like kids seem to migrate to the wife’s family a little more than the son’s family. So they will likely see them a little more than y’all. That’s ok, it’s not a competition as long as you don’t make it one. Offer to keep them so they can have date nights, cook out every few weeks and invite them over. Always make sure to show up for there activities. It will work out. Sons still need their Dads no matter how old they get.
Not sure if you still have other kids at home but if not, definitely build time for you and your wife. We are still very close to both of our children and see them often. But we are also sure loving being empty nesters and the freedom it allows us to just enjoy each other.

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It was its long over this is a failed state the next 10-15 years will be a living hell

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Long over???? Funny, when I looked around yesterday it still seemed pretty great to me.

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I'm not sure why anyone would be celebrating what basically is a failed state in complete distress.

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Because despite the issue that we are facing, this is still the greatest nation to ever exist in the history of this planet.

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I don’t watch gay porn so I have no clue who this is.

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You apparently don’t watch awesome 80’s movies either.

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Robert Redford has only ever played Robert Redford.

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This can be said for many very popular actors. I think we first have to understand that there are great movie stars and then there are great “actors”. There really aren’t very many that fit both categories at the same time.

Daniel Day Lewis is a tremendous actor but I wouldn’t really consider him a movie star.

Sylvester Stallone was a tremendous movie star but I don’t think anyone would ever say he was a great actor.

Sausage and White Bean Cassoulet

Depends on the vacation. When we go to the Florida Keys we have no itinerary. But we have gone many times and basically know what we want to do. We just let it play out based on how we feel each day and what the weather is doing.

However yesterday I spent 3 hours laying our entire Iceland trip out on a spreadsheet. We are spending 10 days driving around the entire country. There is so much to see that I felt like we needed a plan to with, I’m sure we will end up deviating from it quite a bit but I wanted something to start with.

A few years back we went to Arizona and spent time in Sedona and Red Rock and then up to Page and worked our way around the South rim of Grand Canyon and ultimately ended up in Vegas for a few days. Other than preplanning our hotels for each day and purchasing in advance what shows we wanted in Vegas, we really didn’t have any itinerary.

Jesus Christ it’s no wonder the divorce rate is so high. It’s not as hard as some of you make. I’ve been married for 32 years. There is not one of my friends that would ever say I’m a simp or limp wristed but that’s not to say my wife cowtows to my every command either. There is a middle ground.
I have Facebook. Don’t hardly ever post anything. Mainly use it to keep up with all the pics my children post of my grandkids. But you better believe for every birthday, Mother’s Day or Valentine’s Day, I post something to my wife. It takes a whole two minutes worth of effort on my part and it makes my wife’s day. She gets to be happy reading it and happy some more when her friends comment. When my wife is happy, my life is easier and happier as well. And as others have mentioned. If you buy flowers, send it to her workplace.
I love my wife. She is a terrific woman and I like seeing her happy. Doing little things that seem inconsequential to me and takes very little of my time and effort is a decent trade off.

Currently without any pets but this was our last one. Her name was Katrina after the Hurricane because she was born the day it hit. Best dang dog I’ve ever had. She was an inside dog but always hung out outside while we were at work. She could catch birds out of the air and even chased down a few squirrels. Tied into it with opossums and armadillos on the regular. We lived way out in fairly rural area and our yard had tons of trees. We moved to North Bossier and our neighborhood is directly across Airline Drive from a large open field which is patrolled by a red tailed hawk. Of course I did not know this when we moved in and one day when we were gone to work, the hawk tried to get her and tore her up really bad. When I got home and found her she was still alive and rushed her to the Emergency Vet. She was 13 and the vet said that due to her age and the extent of the damage it was best to put her down. I cried like a baby. Tearing up a little just typing this. I hate she laid there and suffered all day til I found her. I hate that damn bird and still see it flying around from time to time. It had actually claimed a few pups in our neighborhood I later found out.

I rock whatever $10 pair I picked up at the gas station until I lose or break them then I go grab another $10 pair.