Reply #3952 DB141's post
Thanks .... and first my request that you do give me a bit of leeway for perhaps going into generalities and perhaps a possibly offensive popular stereotyping?
But have you considered that the very fact that your Chinese SO would have even contemplated a life together with you an indication as to her not very traditionally Chinese up-bringing/her rather Western outlook in life. And that as such, she would adopt/adapt to a more Western/Judeo-Christian way of thinking as far as love, marriage and relationships is concerned?
And/or perhaps that she has tailored her way of thinking into YOUR way - being the loyal/loving wife that she is to you?
Just a thought
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I just got done skimming through what I'm sure must be quite a good report - but which I stopped reading in earnest as soon as the OP mentions that his wife was undergoing Chemotherapy.
I don't know......but staring at that report just brought back to me the stark reality of the mongering life for us married guys and a reminder to myself about the whole sort of sordid life we as mongers have taken on when just satisfying our primal needs.
O....M....G....!!!!
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There was a man, who had worked all his life, had saved all of his money, & was a real miser when it came to spending it.
Just before he died, he said to his wife,"When I die, I want you to take all my money and put it in the casket with me. I worked for it, it's mine and I want to take it to the afterlife with me."
And so he got his wife to promise him, with all of her heart, that when he died, she would put all of his money into the casket with him.
Well, he died. He was stretched out in the casket, his wife was sitting there - dressed in black, and her friend was sitting next to her. When they finished the ceremony, and just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said,
"Wait just a moment!"
She had a small metal box with her; she came over with the box and put it into the casket.
Then the undertakers locked the casket down and they rolled it away.
Her friend sitting with her said,
"Girl, surely you were not foolish enough to put all that money in there with your husband?."
The loyal wife replied,
"Listen, I'm an obedient wife and that was my dear husband's last wish; I cannot go back on my word.
I promised him that I would put all his money into the casket with him."
"You mean to tell me you buried all that money in the casket !?!?!?"
"I sure did," said the wife.
"I got it all together, put it into my account, and wrote him a cheque.... If he can cash it, then he can spend it!" | |
