hisannabelle
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Joined: 12/3/2006 From: Tallahassee, FL, USA Status: offline
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Bliss1: Imagine talking about JFK after seeing the movie (or Apollo 13) and saying "I remember this, I was where ever" and they come back "I wasn't even born yet". I don't know know about the other baby boomer ladies here - but really leaves me feeling ancient. Oh, sweetheart, you have no idea: "What do you mean, you didn't watch movies at home growing up? Didn't you have a VCR?" "Well you could have watched it on cable..." And the absolute chiller, on looking through my record (BLACK VINYL RECORD) collection: "Hey, Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?" --sigh. E. rofl. we've actually never had that problem - at least, he's never expressed that that's an issue for him. the shared sense of time/culture issue hasn't ever really been an issue in our relationship, although occasionally things that bug him and don't bug me, or things that bug me and don't bug him, are definitely age-related. (p.s. we had a vcr when i was growing up, and i can cook better than he does so i sure as hell know how to make a can of soup without a microwave, hehehe.) as far as the "i want someone to grow old with" thing, yes, i mean, i expect that we will be together for a long time. i hope until, you know, death do us part and all that. but considering the fact that he's healthy for his age and i'm not particularly healthy for mine, i don't have so many issues with the whole when-i'm-40-he'll-be-75 thing. at least, that to me hasn't ever seemed like a reason to give up a good thing. then again, i really wasn't looking for anyone when we got together, so all those things seemed sort of superfluous. now, it's not necessarily the "love conquers all" idea, but that there's no age-related issue in our relationship so compelling to make us want to seek partners closer to our own ages (we don't want kids, so losing him when we have young ums is not an issue, we would like to grow old together but if one of us passed the other one would eventually be okay, etc.). i think it's interesting to see how these issues have played out in other people's relationships, though :)
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