23 Years Later...
Dec. 1st, 2008 12:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouse...I'm still with the same woman.
Today is the 23rd anniversary of my relationship with Shawn. We count from our first date (a Christmas shopping trip to Target), because, in the true way of my people, I moved in shortly after that.
I can see why the Christian far right is so worried about allowing people like Shawn and I to marry. Given the track record for most marriages (50% success rate), we'd make 'em look bad. Yeah, they'd better defend their marriage against people like us. We're WAY better at it. We would totally OWN marriage.
So, how's by you?
Today is the 23rd anniversary of my relationship with Shawn. We count from our first date (a Christmas shopping trip to Target), because, in the true way of my people, I moved in shortly after that.
I can see why the Christian far right is so worried about allowing people like Shawn and I to marry. Given the track record for most marriages (50% success rate), we'd make 'em look bad. Yeah, they'd better defend their marriage against people like us. We're WAY better at it. We would totally OWN marriage.
So, how's by you?
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Date: 2008-12-01 06:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-01 06:50 pm (UTC)We're at 24+ years together, with 14 of them "legal". No matter what the papers may or may not say, the best part is finding the right person and gettting to share the rest of your life with them. So, yeah, Go You Two!
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Date: 2008-12-01 07:08 pm (UTC)(And I know all about the "true way," heheh - mine moved in 2-3 wks after the first date and we're at 21 yrs & counting).
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Date: 2008-12-01 07:33 pm (UTC)J and I moved in together very shortly after our supposed "little convention fling." (We have known each other casually for a couple of years before.) That was 29 years ago.
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Date: 2008-12-01 07:59 pm (UTC)But go you, and go Shawn, and may there be many more happy years out there for you to share.
Yay!!
Date: 2008-12-01 08:18 pm (UTC)I don't want to be nosy but, if you feel like sharing a little: Who woo'd who? :-) Or was it mutual?
Tambyrd and I have only been together six years. The initial attraction was mutual but I was definitely the one actively wooing, lol, since she is so shy. It was only fair . . .I was the English major and knew where to find all the good love poems. :-D
Re: Yay!!
Date: 2008-12-02 04:52 pm (UTC)To be fair, the time we count as "together," is a bit complicated.... and too private to really explain here, but we decided some time ago that those years we were living together should all count (even if, at times, we were dating other people... complicated.)
Re: Yay!!
Date: 2008-12-02 07:34 pm (UTC)I'm glad your wooing turned out so well.
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Date: 2008-12-01 08:48 pm (UTC)Congratulations!
Date: 2008-12-01 09:39 pm (UTC)Rock on,
The Plaid Adder
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Date: 2008-12-01 11:02 pm (UTC)This will be my argument next time gay marriage comes up.
Furthermore: Happy Anniversary :D
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Date: 2008-12-01 11:06 pm (UTC)so you were about 18 when you guys got together?
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Date: 2008-12-02 04:53 pm (UTC)Yes, yes, indeed. My entire adult life has been spent with Shawn. (See above re:complications, however.)
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Date: 2008-12-01 11:27 pm (UTC)Anniversary!
Date: 2008-12-01 11:48 pm (UTC)Maybe if we taught the Xtian right to bring UHauls on THEIR second dates,they'd get the picture.
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