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jerwynn

Lifer
Dec 7, 2011
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"Normal", as I've thankfully been told, is only a setting on a clothes dryer! And different strokes for different folks of course!
Sitting on a beach and becoming one with the waves, the sky, the sea, the hot chicks in bikinis - oh wait, not that one, ummm, back on the beach is the closest thing I've come to zen enlightenment. I sat on a gorgeous beach once for the entire day and into the night... I could not pull myself away... after the sunny day, the full moon rose from ocean... one of coolest, greatest things I've ever seen!!
I also absolutely LOVE the mountains, forests, deep woods, etc and have spent weeks poking around those with considerable glee when I was younger.
"Both/And" for me!

 

indianafrank

Part of the Furniture Now
Oct 15, 2014
950
5
pagan
Its not about the water, its about doing something she likes with her, suck it up and go with her,
pagan
Hope yo didnt take my words wrong,
Nope, not a problem. I didn't see that movie The Breakup. I'm not much for Jennifer Anniston type movies. And honestly, my wife asked me to go to the movies to watch that one with her. Wanna know what my answer was? :D

 
He DID go on a cruise with her a while back, so he has compromised a few times. I think that was when you hit someone with a folding chair and tossed them overboard that asked you to get your pipe out of the non-smoking area or something along those lines, ha ha.

I always love your posts Frank. Keep 'em coming.

 

carver

Part of the Furniture Now
Mar 29, 2015
625
3
Belgium
Lot of people are replying to this thread with a statement on their own preference.
Is this post

"sea or moutain, what's your kick?"
or
"what do women want?"
?

 

blueeyedogre

Lifer
Oct 17, 2013
1,555
50
Still water is boring but I could sit with a pipe and watch the ocean roll or a brook babble for hours. In fact I'll be spending the first week of November sitting in Mexico doing just that.

 

mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
41,210
60,611
Between members of a couple, differences can be poison or differences can be good. Figure out how to make the differences good, you get a much happier life. Maybe your wife really can go to the shore with girlfriends and or family and bask and splash to her hearts content, while you do the high country. Or some other accommodation that suits you both. It's less of a big deal than either of you think. Both let go of it as an issue and go with it as an opportunity, if you'll pardon my happy talk.
I love the the coast. I grew up around Lake Michigan and various lakes and rivers, and I was in the Navy and both in port and at sea. I still enjoy going to the shore/beach/rivers/etc. Unfortunately, after three rounds of Mohs surgery for basil cell spots, I have to be pretty careful about midday or any other prolonged sun exposure. So I like the water but I can't spend so much time there, at least not in the summer.

 

cossackjack

Lifer
Oct 31, 2014
1,052
648
Evergreen, Colorado
SWMBO & I are like hand-in-glove, perhaps a fingerless glove, disagreeing about hot humid climates (e.g. Tropics), Lima beans, Brussel sprouts, & pipe smoking.

I compromise for her happiness, & she tolerates my pipe smoking (outdoors only), barely.

She knows that I am not normal in many ways, but neither is she. None of us are, we are all misfit toys. We prefer it that way.
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indianafrank

Part of the Furniture Now
Oct 15, 2014
950
5
cosmic
He DID go on a cruise with her a while back, so he has compromised a few times. I think that was when you hit someone with a folding chair and tossed them overboard that asked you to get your pipe out of the non-smoking area or something along those lines,
Well actually, we were sitting in a no smoking area on deck. The two Spanish speaking women next to me were puffing cigs like freight trains. After half an hour, I politely asked them to stop smoking as the sign read. I pointer to it. They got up, walked away, and ten minutes later, security told my wife and I that I should not have said anything to the ladies, but instead go to security. The two women brought up the race issue, I got pissed, and told security that in no way did I ever say anything about their race. Anyway, wife and I had to move. Apparently they thought I was the trouble maker. All I was doing, because I DO, was asking someone to obey the non smoking rules.

 

hextor

Part of the Furniture Now
Sep 20, 2015
642
6
I have done multitude of tasks, that I don't like, one is the darn reality t.v shows, women are strange creatures, she knows that I hate watching these shows, but she loves my to be there, even though I am suffering inside and my brains are turning into mush just by watching the damned show, I love to read and to be outside, but if i give her that moment of happiness, then the rest of the day it will be like heaven to me.

 

gphenry

Starting to Get Obsessed
Jul 5, 2014
145
4
I have no desire to ever be considered normal.
That said, happy wife, happy life. Sit by the pool, or go to the lake. Bring your pipe and smoke it as you would on your porch.
If she doesn't like that, accuse her of being normal.

 
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