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Subject: [Leica] MARRIAGE / Reorganizing my equipment collection
From: ken at iisaka.com (Ken Iisaka)
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 14:19:44 -0700
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Thank you Ted.

Ken Iisaka

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:34 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

> As much as this hurts I have to put my 2 pennies worth of opinion on
> long-time marriage! Given I just experienced 63 years of a very lovingly
> interesting and satisfying married life before my dear Irene passed on. :-(
>
> If in the beginning you marry a good woman or good man understanding it's
> not going to be a bed of roses and there maybe in that bed of roses a few
> "pricks" along the way. That you are prepared to have the odd straining
> moments of communication, both heated and as lovingly as it can possibly
> be. To admit, you as the male are prepared to accept you "ARE WRONG AND SHE
> IS RIGHT!" And vise versa! It's a two way street always! Give and take, get
> over it and move on together still enjoying the wonderful feeling of her or
> he cuddled by your side anytime .
>
> If you are properly matched? Obviously understood right from the first
> time you find her cuddled by your side in the warmth of the night. There
> isn't any reason for a pennies worth of thought about divorce. I see
> divorcing when children have been conceived as one of the most cruel things
> parents can bestowe on their off spring. Having not done that, I'm sure
> there are other opinions.
>
> By the same token today's society is a wrangle of perceived "entitlement
> beyond common sense" where "NO" is the only so called correcting answer to
> everything. "No you can't do that, this and every stupid asinine reason to
> turn the society into some quagmire of stupid ill-conceived rules, laws and
> regulations."
>
> But if you have the right woman or male by your side in the beginning,
> none of the garbage-pit regulations conceived by moronic politicians and
> government bureaucrats will deter you one iota from a beautiful long and
> enjoyable life with the mate you've loved beyond your wildest dreams and
> thoughts when you first said "I Do!"
>
> I find the "bitterness shown here" by some extremely unfortunate for the
> so called "Victim!" But one must ask ..... "What happened to the "two way
> street of give and take?" Stubbornness of stupidity by both doesn't solve
> anything.
>
> The "Whores of Hollywood" and societies of today's lust for all the crap
> stuff promoted in crappy celebrity magazines that cater to the witless
> fools who see the events of Hollywood as... "They do, so I do!"  It is this
> kind of crap the completely innocent women and men in the first place, see
> divorce is the only answer. Then do it and the next thing you know they've
> grab another foolish male or female ready to wed. They do it as quickly and
> as fast "as a Saturday night whore changing her undies!" And all they've
> done is move them selves into another quagmire that ends again in divorce.
>
> I'm sorry but I don't by all this bull-shit about divorce being the be-all
> answer to solving marital problems. Sure there are going to be the
> exception simply because if the wrong mate was picked because she or he was
> a "WOW FACTOR IN THE SACK!" That only helps on cold winter nights, but
> that's only a part of a successful marriage.
>
> I need not go on any longer as I know my married life was great, sure we
> had some wild old verbal battles. Everybody does at sometime or other and
> anyone saying they never had a squabble is probably lying. That's all part
> of Mother Natures Communications in working things out. After all it is a
> two way street of give and take.
>
> Unfortunately nobody was around with a Leica to photograph some of our
> "discussions?" ;-) Oscar martial for the cover of LIFE magazine! ;-)
>
> Bottom-line? We loved each other, enjoyed our great times together, had 4
> great and wonderful successful children. And now 10 Grand children who are
> also cracker jack kids and the oldest two will own their own business
> operations one of these days as they're already laying out plans and how.
> 20 & 21!
>
> All a hell of a lot brighter than their grandfather when it comes to the
> "Art of running a business." OH yeah and both have wonderful sharp ladies
> by their sides.
>
> So there you go eh! I just wish it were 63 years and counting! :-( I miss
> her dearly. :-(
>
> cheers,
> ted
>
>
>
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Ken Iisaka
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