By Blue Rose on Thursday, 19 of November , 2009 at 8:57 am
Have you ever felt that there is something missing in your relationship?
You have family that loves you, you have work that provides everything you need to survive, you have friends that can be there for you when you need them, except if they are busy, you have boyfriend girlfriend or husband/wife that adores you, if they adores you.
If they adores you? What does it mean? Yah, you have boyfriend/husband, girlfriend/wife but do you feel that they love you or even have just a little feelings for you not just the word ‘I Like You’.
Yah, you are being praised when you did something really good that he/she likes, but what do you feel when you are being compared to somebody else that has been in his/her life?
Does it feel like a sharp dagger that struck into your chest?
You are happy being with him/her and can be with him/her for the rest of your life, but does he/she feel the same?
You accept him/her as what he/she is, everything that connects in his/her life, but do you feel that you are still being ignored, set aside?
There is a line that maybe adapted in this situation, ‘I was never your partner, I’m just your wife/husband’. Does it applies in your life?
Have you figured out what is missing?
Respect. Acceptance. Love. Feelings.
By Blue Rose on Wednesday, 19 of August , 2009 at 4:27 pm
The secret of a long marriage was simple for Robert and Elizabeth Charlton. Every time he cheated on his wife he would make it up by buying her a gift.
The remarkably forgiving Mrs. Charlton wasn’t satisfied with mere flowers, however.
Instead, she acquired diamond jewelry whenever her wealthy husband strayed – and it seems they both notched up quite a collection in their 26 years together.
While Mr. Charlton enjoyed the opportunities offered to a businessman running two nightclubs and an underwear packing business, his wife is said to have equally cherished the necklaces, earrings, bracelets and rings the errant entrepreneur bought her.
The collection of 43 jewelry items in Mrs. Charlton’s jewelry box was passed on to their only daughter and has now sold for nearly £300,000.
The most expensive item was a necklace made up of 54 diamonds, thought to have been bought from Carrington and Co of Regent Street, which was auctioned for £60,000.
A large pendant in the shape of a diamond and a brooch each went for £53,000 and a chunky diamond solitaire ring sold for £23,000.
A pair of drop earrings went for £22,000 while a gold bangle with nine diamonds fetched £25,000, including the auctioneer’s cut.
According to the family the couple’s arrangement meant their marriage thrived from when they wed in 1948 until Mr. Charlton died, aged 63, in 1974.
Clare Durham, of auctioneers Woolley and Wallis of Salisbury, Wiltshire, said: ‘It would seem that any time Mr. Charlton was naughty and played away he bought his wife a nice bit of jewelry to keep her sweet.
‘She was well aware of what was going on – he cheated on her a lot. It may have been more than 43 times, because the families have kept some of the pieces, or it may have been less.
‘Certainly the best, most expensive pieces were bought when he played away. His daughter was fully aware of what was going on at the time and the family has told us the story – it was no secret to anyone.
It is not clear if Mr. Charlton had been married before but he had an 11-year-old daughter, Marie, when he wed Elizabeth and she took the girl as her own. When Mrs. Charlton died in 2006, aged 90, she left the collection of jewelry to Marie.
The seller has not commented on her decision to sell the heirlooms, but did provide the auctioneers with plenty of her parents’ life history.
Of the jewelry sold by her firm, she said: ‘It is a beautiful collection of fine diamond jewelry. There were 43 items in total and most of it dates back to the late Victorian and early Edwardian period.
‘It would have been antique when it was bought in the 1950s and 1960s. The standout piece is definitely the necklace which is just beautiful.’ (mailonline)
By Blue Rose on Tuesday, 18 of August , 2009 at 7:49 pm
Driving my three-year-old daughter to day care before work, I noticed a family of dead raccoons on the road. I quickly sped past, hoping she wouldn’t spot them. No such luck.
“Mummy, what was that?”
“Some wood must have fallen from a truck,” I fibbed.
“Oh,” she said. “Is that what killed all those raccoons?”
We’d just moved to a new city, and I was working nights in a call center. Parent-teacher interviews were coming up and my daughter, Bethany, who was in primary 2, took it upon herself to explain to her teacher why I couldn’t be there.
“My mummy can’t come tonight,” Bethany said, “because she works nights. She’s a call girl.”
Marking the register of my year II from group, I asked if anyone knew what had happen to a boy who had been absent for some days.
“I think he’s got the flu, sir,” said his friend.
“What do you mean you ‘think’ he’s got the flu?”
“That’s what I thought he said when I saw him in the night club last night.”
A mathematician got an earful from his wife after wandering home at 3 am. “You’re late!” she yelled. “You said you’d be home by 11:45!”
“Actually,” the mathematician replied coolly, “I said I’d be home by a quarter of 12.”
The linguist’s husband caught his wife in the arms of another man. “Susan,” he said, “I’m surprised!”
“No, I’m surprised,” she corrected him. “You’re astonished.”
My sister-in-law, a professional storyteller, was in Europe speaking at various libraries. Later, she called her mother and told her that’s she’d just given a speech for 250 librarians.
“Great,” said her mother. “And how much is that in American money?”
