What's Love Got To Do With It?

[psychic_serpent]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tim Regan" 
<tim_regan82 at h...> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter Cindy wrote: 
> > First, I started to wonder if I have the longest 
> > marriage of anyone on OTC 

Oh, hardly.  I'm sure I've heard of people saying they've been 
married longer.  On September 3, my husband and I just celebrated 
our fifteenth anniversary, and I'm fairly certain we're not the 
longest marriage here.
 
> There are lots of people on the list, so I bet we get some really 
> long marriages showing up. Anyway to chip in with mine, I married 
> Kate on the 21st of December 1990, so it's nearly 13 years ago for 
> us too. But we started walking out together some time before that, 
> 18th of March 1983, when I was just 17 and Kate was 18. When I see 
> 17 year olds now, I cannot believe that they would be capable of 
> making such a momentous decision as `choosing' the love of their 
> life.  

We've only got you beat by about a month!  Last February, we 
celebrated the 20th anniversary of our first date, which was on 
February 12, 1983, during our freshman year at Temple University.  
We were a tad older than you were, however, as we were both about to 
turn 19 in early April.  But you have a point--other 19 year olds I 
see in relationships don't ever strike me as having the potential to 
last for very long.  In fact, I feel like I'm always hearing about 
acquaintances who are about that age switching partners with 
regularity, and I even have a niece in her late twenties who married 
at 21 and is now divorced, a nephew only five years younger than me 
who is divorced, and another nephew who was going to marry the 
mother of his daughter, was living with her for some time instead, 
and then they broke up.  They share custody of their little girl 
now.  He's not a kid, either, but just turned 25 (okay, at this age 
I kind of consider 25 to be a kid <g>).
 
On another note, I'm about to face something I didn't expect to for 
some time.  Tomorrow my son is going on his first date.  He'll be 
eleven later this month and the girl is already eleven.  They're 
being chaperoned by the girl's mother.  (The mom has to drive her 
daughter into the city from the suburbs for the date anyway; my son 
met her at summer camp and they've been talking on the phone a lot 
since camp ended.) They were going to see "Second Hand Lions" until 
it was pulled from the theatre where it was playing.  Then the plan 
was changed to a trip to a museum; now my son is asking whether they 
can see "School of Rock" with Jack Black, which is PG-13.  (I didn't 
want to say yes to this at first, as we've carefully monitored the 
very few PG-13 films he's seen, but I'm starting to warm to it after 
seeing some good reviews that also explain the reason for the 
rating.)

Ack.  How did this get here so soon?  He was just a little baby a 
second ago.  And yet--I remembered the other night that I had my 
first date when I was 12, with a boy who was 11.  We went to see The 
Bad News Bears 'chaperoned' by my sister and her boyfriend (they 
were a bit 'preoccupied').  My daughter just turned nine; so far the 
only boy of which she's taken notice is Daniel Radcliffe <g>, so I 
don't think she'll be dating as soon as her brother.  But still--I'm 
reeling a bit with this.

Does anyone have a good reason why an 11 year old shouldn't see the 
Jack Black film?  (I understand the story is about 11 year olds.)  
Or should I recommend the treacly film about the dogs from space 
(erk!) instead?

--Barb

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