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Theladyisaminx
Over 90 days ago
Straight Female, 62
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Quote by lyns
Staying at home and raising a family be it by either a man or a woman is definately not to be considered an under acheivement....
Its often a thankless task that is overlooked by many yet is a vital one.....
My hat goes off to anyone who has done/is doing it..

I second all of that Steve.
There should be far more parents staying at home doing a parents role.
In my parents day virtually all women stayed at home and looked after the kids.
Nowadays to many " latch key kids " around, coming and going as they please. We have one of those ferel toads living right next door to me. Father out all day and most weekend evenings, leaving the 13 year old to fend for himself. He has god knows how many of his mates round causing havoc.
For what it is worth I feel it was a sad day when both sets of parents went out to work, and then left their kids either " home alone " or let them fend for themselves until they came back home.
Any parent that deems to want to stay at home should be helped out big time via benefits of sorts, and should be encouraged to stay at home at least until the child reaches secondary school age.
Isn't that what income support and tax credits are for?
You only recieve them if you below a certain level of earnings with one working.
Quote by Mistress_39
Having been through a number of difficult times in my life including the death of a child through cancer, a painful divorce, various other traumas and now, currently, my delicious other half having to face yet another operation on his leg..........I feel that life is here to be reckoned with!
It hasnt made me grouchy. It hasnt made me pesimistic. It has taught me that some things just are not worth fretting about, some things are just not important in the grand scheme of things.
Do hard times make life easier to enjoy?
I certainly dont think they make things easier but I sure as hell think they make you appreciate the good things and not take life for granted.
I enjoy my life. I feel I owe it to my son who never had a chance to live his past his 5 1/2 years.

I love you attidute! :thumbup:
I am of the same thoughts of yourself for my daughter.
Quote by Resonance
"I wanted a faith for my children to have the chance to choose for themselves?"
Minxy, that is entirely contradictory. You're children didn't choose for themselves. You chose for them.
You seem to be saying, I went to a faith school and it was great because I didn't have to show any faith in the faith of the school. Which begs the question, why have it in the first place?
The laudable qualities you mentioned of community, manners and appreciation of others can be fostered and nurtured within children without over-reliance on ANY religious book.
The entire rationale of faith schools is that they are based upon a single faith that is accepted as their choice. It may not be "shoved down your throat" in terms of being fanatically adhered to, however the entire pretext of the school is that it is based on faith, so it will provide an education in line with that faith, which makes it mutually exclusive and entirely non-indicative of the multi-cultural society we are supposed to be educating children to take part in.
As I said in another thread, religion has a lot to offer and I fully support educating children about all kinds of religion and belief systems so that in time they can make their own choices as to what to believe in, when they are of an age to make that decision for themselves.
I don't think it is right that adults can arbitrarily decide what religion a child shall follow based on their own beliefs, or worse still, because "it's a good school".
Religion should be part of a free and open education, not education part of (and dependent upon) religion.

Res I know what you are saying and can see your point, I would like to just say their school taught all faiths, which was something I was unable to give the basic understanding of for my children.
I knew the school covered these areas they had a balanced view and Philosophy was taught too. Which helped in teaching them to always question and keep an open mind.
I was pretty pleased that two out of three children of mine at aged 11 said if they had to choose a religion it would be Buddhism a lot of child have no idea what faiths are out there and the meaning and the harm they can cause too.
When I asked why they said it is more about understanding and accepting your inner self and a way of life.
So I believed to send them to the school I did was best for my children, I don’t believe in any religion but I still think its best to know a little about all than to be completely ignorant about them all. After all they are here and not likely to go away.
So we thought better for understanding a little than to learnt it off the street so to speak.
Quote by Ste_n_Kez

I just had a thought are women different sizes internally?
I dont have a clue
But we must have different shapes and sizes lol
so what do men prefer? wink

When I was younger I used to worry about size, not length as I am a couple of inches above the national average but girth. With age and experience I have become much more confident of the manhood I have been given. It for me is how to use it rather than size, and I do spend a lot of time chatting with Kez about our love making and listening to her reaction to anything I try that’s new.
I have to say that as for female internal size; yes they are different in depth and width. My ex was loose and when fucking I found I had to work my ass like Beyoncé to touch the sides but she was a bit shallow in depth so I would hurt her occasionally.
well there you go it could be us women that are the problem lol
As not every glove fits every hand, so best try a few on first for a snug fit :rascal:
Quote by CuddlySimon
I don't like hard times I need more money to do things

Money does make for hard times is just one aspect and it's hard, money can be reagained, there are other things to we lose that can never be regained no amount of trying or hard work would achieve it, some things are lost forever.
Quote by st3v3
Even more f*cking unbelievable - were the new servers and software on sale or return? - Or phone Lidl's and ask them if they would give you your money back SH

Are you still having problems?
I have had problems with chat rooms for a couple of weeks unable to use them as chat keeps freezing, as a paid up member that is so frustrating, so I have had to use my quota in the forums. wink
I hope it sorts itself out soon, as I am not one to complain but it is driving me bonkers.
Quote by fabio
okay... now I feel like a bit of a freak...
I have never measured mine... and have no intention of starting now...
but it does get frustrating, as more and more importance seems to be placed on it, especially in the ads...
I am honest with people and tell them... what I get a lot of time is "well.... guess then!!"

I agree Fabio it spoils the fun knowing, I would rather unwrap and discover myself it to me is part of the mystery.
But I was asking why guys thought it was a problem, so could it be others expections makes others Self-consciousness.
I think men have always compared theirs against others, you know a quick sneaky look in the mens loos maybe.
In showers after a game of something.
Might be where a few of the doubts creep in.
I am sure some guys walk out with a frown while others walk out with a snug look on their faces, not that I know redface Just guessing here.
But come on guys there are a lot of woman around where it doesn't matter.
Stand tall and be proud of what nature gave you wink
I would be from the cat family.
I could stalk my mating partner. Leap into action, eat, then sleep all day.
Sheer bliss
BTW Flower what do 18 year olds know?
From an older, wiser, more mature woman you are creepy :P
Why are there no dirty old women. No I did not say you are old Sassy. Is it because all men are so lecherous.
There are!
We just go about it quietly wink
I was commenting on a 18 year old lad I know the other day saying he was just a lovely lad and someone over heard me and said do you fancy him.
I said if I was 20 years younger he would turn my head in his direction.
The problem was I was sitting about 30 yards away from the lad and the guy that ask me shouted out to the poor lad. So about 30 people heard I would have him if I was younger. I don't know why blushed the most, me or him. lol
I felt like a lecherous old woman. redface
I just read a post in the reunion thread that made me feel sad.
“I am happily married and have been since I was 21”
“I have had 5 children”
“I now do a job that any idiot could do simply because I couldn't afford the childcare if I had a 'real' 
“I don't feel overly proud of my achievements,.”
Sorry fluff I hope you don’t mind me quoting you here, but it reminded me of me with slight alterations
Married 22 years
3 children
Always worked odd jobs to fit in around the children
The last bit “I don't feel overly proud of my achievements” I have to ask why do we sometimes feel that staying at home raising children is seen as not achieving?
I for one will have to say I feel I have achieved what I set out to do and I believe you have too, that was to raise our children the way we have and be proud of the way we have done it, I guess life for you has been tough as in mine in finacial terms, but I don’t regret the way I choose to do it.
But it is funny as I get a feeling that you feel the way I do, we get to an age and feel some of society looks at us differently and the fact we are in our middle years have nothing to offer back to society that we have wasted all those years.
But hopefully we have given society people of the future to be proud of.
I went to a primary C of E faith school plus a comprehensive, I personally prefer the faith school, why because they instilled a good feeling of community, manners and appreciation of others.
O yeah and the vicar came once a week and held assembly.
Some people seem to think all faith schools brainwash and shove religion down your throat, not all do.
I dont go to church but keep an open view, I choose to send my children to a faith school, I was honest before hand and told the school I was non practicing.
I wanted a faith for my children to have the chance to choose for themsleves as I had, none of my children are showing signs of following but loved their school and really enjoyed the Philosophy classes. wink
I dont see it as hypocrisy, but as not denying my children to choose for themselves.
Quote by little gem
No.
Having had hard times, I think I much preferred things when I knew not what hard times were... at all.
I liked being in my little bubble of eternal sunshine happiness with multicoloured sprinkles and sauce. It makes me think that everything was OK with the world, my little world and those around me.
Having a hard time can make you jaded and negative which can make life seem a chore rather than a blessing, with every day being a new hurdle to lollop over haphazardly.
It would definately depend on personal experiences and someone's personality as to whether they take the optimistic, pesimistic or neutral view point.

I do agree with you, on personal expierances and personality to a degree, but some things we go through we have not other expierance of that situation to draw from, it is something new something we have to learn to go through as we have not choice.
I think we can only take a view point after getting through what we have and looking back. It could take time to realise that the expierance has changed us and just knowing we have survived it where prior if thought about we never throught we would cope.
Surely there are possitives to draw from just knowing you have survived.
Quote by CuddlySimon
I think what makes guys act like that is as said the + part smile I mean if you just about have 6" saying 6+ is fine is like saying anything above the amount of money you have is fine, or rather sounds like it. (4+ would be better if insisting size isn't important)
Also there's all those profiles where they always say after VWE people or even WE, fine to put that but just makes me walk on by, I don't wanna waste my time.

I should have left the + alone wink
What I meant is from around 6in as that is about the size I know a lot of women seem happy.
I just had a thought are women different sizes internally?
I dont have a clue
But we must have different shapes and sizes lol
so what do men prefer? wink
Quote by flower411
I have a penis wave
You girls are just jealous that you haven`t got one lol

I have things you don't have! sillyhwoar: wink
I just read a thread that starting me thinking.
Sorry guys I just have to ask is the size of your manhood important to you?
I have spoken to a few guys in the past and unless you are carring a higher than average size some I have felt were almost apologising for what they have.
Is that important to guys?
As most women will tell you it is the rhythm, how you use it and size doesn’t matter. Ok I might have to admit a couple of inches might be a bit different but 6inches plus is enough for a lot of women.
So if the women don't find it an issues, why would you need bigger, and having bigger what are you hoping to gain?
So why do guys have a fascination about size?
I personally think a lot do, or it could be they like to see woman with a bigger one so it could be, if only they are thinking.
Quote by flower411
Jelking does work and make your cock biiger 3inches on mine

Does it give you a personality too ?? dunno
Why is that what you use too? :P
No !! I was hoping to get one lol
There was I thinking you had the side effects just not the extra 3 inches lol
I have an idea that he might be responding to another thread but hasen't yet mastered the forums dunno
The one that springs to mind is what age were you when you started swinging.
Quote by flower411
Jelking does work and make your cock biiger 3inches on mine

Does it give you a personality too ?? dunno
Why is that what you use too? :P
rolleyes Thamks for letting us know!
Just watch is doesn't drop off when you are 40! innocent
Btw are you on commission? wink
Welcome to the forums :welcome:
Strange things are happening in here today, the posts in threads are all going out of order, some the op post is half way down the page, making some strange comments as an opening post, I have quoted someone thats post now is after mine, I am confused enough without these things happening.
Who can we appoint blame to?
Who stopped turning the cogs on sh.
I think its Bilko I can blame him as time he reads this I will be tucked up in bed fast asleep. :P
Quote by Dirtygirly
.. I wasn't thinking about a swinging relationship. What you do within the rules you set as a couple, together is a totally different thing to cheating, i.e. fucking someone else without your partner's knowledge.
You're allowed to find me as odd as you like Minxy... that's okay. wink
But I'd have to share a whole load more than I'm willing to in order to explain properly how I see it so I'll bow out with my black and white views on this occasion.
Interesting topic though. :thumbup:

Are we not all odd in our own peculiar way? wink
Take Flower for instant!
I say no more :P
Quote by Dirtygirly
.. I wasn't thinking about a swinging relationship. What you do within the rules you set as a couple, together is a totally different thing to cheating, i.e. fucking someone else without your partner's knowledge.
You're allowed to find me as odd as you like Minxy... that's okay. wink
But I'd have to share a whole load more than I'm willing to in order to explain properly how I see it so I'll bow out with my black and white views on this occasion.
Interesting topic though. :thumbup:

Are we not all odd in our own peculiar way? wink
Take Flower for instant!
I say no more :P
Quote by Dirtygirly

But a gratuitous fuck or two .....nothing to forgive, lots of people do it.

So basically you think it's okay to cheat just because lots of people do it? dunno
If that's what works for you, then that's none of my business. I'd much prefer to know if someone is cheating so I could make an informed choice as to whether I got involved though. I have been involved on the other side of it, it's something that I would make a choice on for each the individual scenario.
My black and whiteness comes from the fact that I have never and would never cheat on my partner. Double standards perhaps since I have been the "other woman" before.
I just don't understand it. Again, not a judgement but rather me looking for an explanation as to why you think that?
:mrgreen:
I spose I could just as easily ask why you felt it was OK to be the other woman !! :shock:
I can`t see this type of thing in black and white because there are so many shades of grey...as you have made very clear in your statement about being the other woman.
Totally. I'm not giving you shit for your opinion though, I just wanted to know why you thought the way you thought. lol It certainly wasn't an attack. Cause I'd be a pot calling you a kettle! wink
I have been with people who are cheating on their partners in the past. It's informed choice. If I know what I'm getting into before I get into it then I know what it is. Their relationship is not my concern. My own would be.
I've also been the other woman without knowing it. That hurt more than I could ever begin to tell you.
I wouldn't cheat on my partner, as I've said, perhaps it is double standards, perhaps I'm a contradiction in terms. It's just not something I have done or would do. That part, for me, is black and white.
It is a little odd that you see it as Black and white Topic.
You would leave a relationship if you found out that your partner had just sex with another woman, but you have stated that you have been the other woman knowingly
But you would be angry is you had sex with someone that you never knew to have a partner.
I honestly would feel worse knowing they did if I had the same view as you as in I wouldn’t forgive my partner if he done the same as the guy you are doing the same with.
It seems a little that as long as everyone is honest with you that is what counts.
As I have forgiven my hubby I do see things in a different light as in I would take a view on the person and make an informed choice, I have even said to some people I wouldn’t and they would gain more talking to their partners than meeting me.
As what I have found is some guys I have spoken to think they want to do this but know they don’t in a way too, but when talking some answers come to them that perhaps they never saw.
So to me there can never be just black and white, that would only apply if we don’t have to be accountable for our own actions or decisions too
Quote by Dirtygirly

But a gratuitous fuck or two .....nothing to forgive, lots of people do it.

So basically you think it's okay to cheat just because lots of people do it? dunno
If that's what works for you, then that's none of my business. I'd much prefer to know if someone is cheating so I could make an informed choice as to whether I got involved though. I have been involved on the other side of it, it's something that I would make a choice on for each the individual scenario.
My black and whiteness comes from the fact that I have never and would never cheat on my partner. Double standards perhaps since I have been the "other woman" before.
I just don't understand it. Again, not a judgement but rather me looking for an explanation as to why you think that?
:mrgreen:
I spose I could just as easily ask why you felt it was OK to be the other woman !! :shock:
I can`t see this type of thing in black and white because there are so many shades of grey...as you have made very clear in your statement about being the other woman.
Totally. I'm not giving you shit for your opinion though, I just wanted to know why you thought the way you thought. lol It certainly wasn't an attack. Cause I'd be a pot calling you a kettle! wink
I have been with people who are cheating on their partners in the past. It's informed choice. If I know what I'm getting into before I get into it then I know what it is. Their relationship is not my concern. My own would be.
I've also been the other woman without knowing it. That hurt more than I could ever begin to tell you.
I wouldn't cheat on my partner, as I've said, perhaps it is double standards, perhaps I'm a contradiction in terms. It's just not something I have done or would do. That part, for me, is black and white.
It is a little odd that you see it as Black and white Topic.
You would leave a relationship if you found out that your partner had just sex with another woman, but you have stated that you have been the other woman knowingly
But you would be angry is you had sex with someone that you never knew to have a partner.
I honestly would feel worse knowing they did, if I had the same view as you, as in I wouldn’t forgive my partner if he done the same as the guy you were doing the same with.
It seems a little that as long as everyone is honest with you that is what counts.
As I have forgiven my hubby I do see things in a different light as in I would take a view on the person and make an informed choice, I have even said to some people I wouldn’t and they would gain more talking to their partners than meeting me.
As what I have found is some guys I have spoken to think they want to do this but know they don’t in a way too, but when talking some answers come to them that perhaps they never saw.
So to me there can never be just black and white, that would only apply if we don’t have to be accountable for our own actions or decisions too.
I believe I have gained more knowledge and understanding about myself in life through the hardest times within my life, times when life is on an even level are great as you feel contented, but then something unseen comes along that has to be tackled these are the times I find myself questioning, working out ways to overcome them to be able to move on, what I have also found within life is good always seems to come out of a bad situation often you don’t see that, but then looking back can often see how life’s journey has changed you to who you are today.
During the hard times I would feel if only life was always happy and simple, that I never had to cry or feel unset wishing things that had happened never needed to happen.
But then would we have the tools to deal with life that these situations arm us with to survive?
There are a couple of threads about cheating here, It is so confusing like anything in life on what ones expectations and limitations are within a relationship.
I have been a victim of finding out my hubby had a casual sex encounter years ago with someone he worked with at that time. I felt hurt, let down and betrayed when I first found out, but then I questioned not only my hubby but myself as to how this came about.
There were many factors at that time to have lead him that way, new family, financial stains, me changing into motherhood, ok it doesn’t make what happened right, but it gave me a greater insight to the workings of a male mind, as what my hubby said to me, is that he believes many men to have felt some time the way he felt.
At the time I thought do I forgive or leave, I choose to forgive and stay, as we had formed a life together at that stage been together 12 years had our first child and felt it was just sex, I believe 18 years on I made the right choice and realise all people are not perfect myself included and to trust anyone 100% is a little naïve.
There was a lot we gained from what happened, it opened up communication and a better understanding of each other.
There are some people that would judge and say it is a selfish act, but I also feel it is a selfish act to always appoint blame to one party, as like any relationship in life with anybody it takes two peoples to make any relation work to please each other, if on a friendship, family or married sense it makes no difference.
If I see what he done as so wrong as in having casual sex, I would also have to question why I am now enjoying it.
I know we are both involved now.
But if you take away me not knowing at the time, there is no differance I think between the two.
I think what drives anybody here is what drives us to be here, so who are we to judge?
Quote by niceguysdoexist
I find I look at profiles several times ......just because I'm an old fart and I forget which ones I have looked at sad

Hello you old fart! wave
From a younger one.
Quote by st3v3
If enough people were interested in a feature like that we could put it on the list, I'll make a note to add it to the next survey we do.

You might then have to take away the wording on enticing new members that states they have full use of the site, to you can only look at a profiles if the person lets you.
I really am struggle to see why someone looking at a profile no matter how many times feel uncomfortable.
Unless they were stalking in rooms or abusive in any way, then there are ways to report them.
If giving people the option to block people from viewing their profile, to be could be abused just for the sake of it.
Then limiting the amount of the site that is accessible.
With my feelings I never feel guilty shame or disgust for what I have done as I would not do anything at that moment in time that I would feel uncomfortable about after, I wonder more about how it has been perceived by whom is there, I would like to think we all enjoyed whatever it was that happened and nobody had those feelings after but just felt they enjoyed what has just happened too.
If I felt they had any negative feelings after, then I would feel unsure of how I felt myself about it.
One thing I have had difficulty in doing in the past is admitting there are things I enjoy doing as again I think I should feel guilty or ashamed in admitting to them.
I have got better at just accepting what I like and enjoy many different things and accept I am a naughty Minx for liking them so I don’t feel ashamed. embarassed or disgusted with myself.
But I do like a time together after and not a guy that says where is the door. wink
That is a hard question to explain in a couple of paragraphs but have done my best in trying to answer it. :P