bigtim wrote:Chachacha wrote::lol:
I am always amazed when people select the partner of their choice then bitch about him/her till the day they die.
yeah... I think it's 'settling'....
I get amazed at how people can get so angry at their spouse over the dumbest things....
Most people duplicate their parent's relationship. Some of the longest-lived marriages I've seen thrive on a steady diet of criticism. And something I have seen in the longest marriages, 40-50 years or more, good or bad, is the willingness to have the same argument over and over and over again and, yes, those arguments are almost always over the dumbest things. *shakes head and chuckles*
And as far as "settling" - I agree some people settle, but for others, "settling" isn't the problem: it's not thinking; flying on automatic pilot; refusing to pay attention to all the nagging little things you see that don't fit into your picture of the perfect life with the perfect mate; believing that some miraculous change will occur after "I do" - he won't be so short-tempered, she'll stop nagging me about my drinking. One of the most mind-boggling, What What What Whaaaaaaat? moment I've experienced is a show documenting the month before the birth of the first child of two people who were a hairsbreath away from divorce or killing each other, and BOTH of them saying that they'd be so glad when the pregnancy was over and the baby born because that would "take the pressure off".
And, again, the power of the attraction to a person who is like one's parent is primal because that's what laid down the "love" pathways in the brain, so when it's encountered, it activiates the "love" button, lighting all the lights and sounding all the bells and whistles, and the urge to merge overwhelms the capacity for rational thought. Crazily, the opposite is also true, a person who makes you crave love the way a parent made you crave love, can also activate the love button.
It seems the more unbelievable the claim or story, the more people believe it and the more fervently they believe.