"This is the best, it's my life, this is my best friend. It's almost like knowing its weak spots are strong spots. I don't like to get sentimental about these things, but when you spend 30 years of your life with the same instrument, it's like a walking memory bank of your life there in your arms." — Rory Gallagher
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Once considered taboo due to the mere suggestion that a couple was having premarital sex, cohabitation before marriage is now the norm. “If nursery rhymes are clues to how couples live their lives, ‘first comes love, then comes marriage’ is sorely outdated,” Allie Volpe writes for Vox. Read more about this cultural trend and dive into the question of whether living together before marriage is good for the relationship. https://flip.it/o.Npuz
#Culture #Love #Marriage #Relationships
OK, I know this is silly. But last night I really wanted to talk to you about the aurora...
[NEW BLOG] #relationships #communication #ThisIsNotActuallyAboutTheAurora
https://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/aurora/
Chance encounters. #grickledoodle #relationships #witch #frog #horror #magic #cartoon #art #drawing #funny
As I ponder the year in review, it occurs to me that I have only had four marriage proposals*, whereas I had hoped for a stronger showing.
*This is 100% true. I have no need to fabricate these things.
But there are still two weeks left in the year to turn this around!
I am therefore announcing that from now until the end of 2025, I am open to non-binding offers of marriage. (This isn't Jane Austen, I won't sue for breach of contract if you rescind your offer in the future.)
If you would like to help me get my numbers up by year's end, you are welcome to propose!
When #SHTF, I'm sure you will need #community, #solidarity and stable #relationships at a local level a little more than you'll need a 2y supply of freeze-dried meals.
Though it can't hurt to download #books and #information now that you once believed would be treasured as heritage of humankind – and never be burned, or rewritten to suit the needs of fanatics with fragile egos.
Start here:
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Hello youths, it is your queer auntie Abadidea back with the advice
I was alerted to a 19yo autistic person who heard "autistic people tend to form their first successful long-term relationship around 30" and concluded that there is then no point to even trying until they're 30. I don't know where this statistic came from or how accurate it is, but that's a bit beside the point, because:
Very few people get into a successful long-term relationship on their very first try. The usual way of things is that two well-meaning young people fall in love and then something goes painfully, messily wrong four months in and they both LEARN something about how to conduct themselves and how to deal with others. Repeat two or three more times until two people who have developed some emotional maturity fall in love. It may take autistic people a little longer on average to iron out the kinks, but they'll get there!
If you decide "I won't even try until I'm 30 because the math says that's when it works out," what's going to happen is that you're going to be 30 with the emotional maturity of a wildly unbalanced 18yo and all the other 30yos are going to be like... yeah, not touching that with a 10-foot pole.
Successful relationships come from practice, not from waiting for the Maturity Fairy to bless you!