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I guess I am really lucky, my answer is NO. We are best friends, have the same likes and dislikes, heck --- we even work together now, co-owning our own company. We pretty much do everything together, married for 33 years and together for 37, so something must be working o.k. for us  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tomorrow's battle is won during today's practice. | |||
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i gave up on the shade and curtin fight you have to pick your battles and this is one i'll never win it sucks when your sick home in bed without shades to darken the room  "They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin, 1759-- Special Edition - Reverse TT 229ST.Sig Logo'd CTC Grips., Bedair guide rod | |||
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Legalize the Constitution |
I can’t think of any view or opinion that we find ourselves in total opposition. OTOH, I grew up in a mixed marriage; my dad was Republican and my mother was Democrat. Politics was literally the ONLY thing I remember them arguing about—and they did with some frequency. _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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My bride ( of 66 years) is a Democrat while I am a converted Republican. Our daughter follows my line of Republican. Officers lives matter! | |||
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Casuistic Thinker and Daoist |
It really does sound like a light issue as opposed to a privacy issue. She wants to house to be light and airy, you want the house to be a cave. All you have to do is figure out a way to provide light for her without compromising outside visibility for you. Blinds will work if you can find a style you both like...be warned, quality blinds aren't inexpensive. I'd look into frosting the windows before tinting them No, Daoism isn't a religion | |||
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Our decorating tastes are far apart. I've generally defaulted to what she prefers. It really just doesn't matter to me that much. For example, don't care what couches, chairs etc... she wants as long as I have one I like to sit in. Last time we did couches and chairs she bought and returned twice and then finally just went with what I liked (first time in 28 years). She's still not all that happy with it but couldn't find anything she liked better. | |||
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We do have different opinions on things. But funny you mentioned the curtains, blinds, whatever- we live in Mccandless, just below Cranberry PA and most of the neighbors have no shades/blinds and if they do- they leave them open all of the time. Anyone who cares to look can see everything in their house, what they are doing, etc. Not my style, and it violates every recommendation from police and security specialists about making casing easy for thieves. (My wife and I have a big difference of opinion in what things one "needs" like tools, etc. Her feeling is that we have too much stuff... (I don't disagree, but men and women seem to have very different viewpoints as to what is needed). | |||
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| Conveniently located directly above the center of the Earth  |
Venetian blinds. I like to be able to see at least from the knees down, of those outside near the house with the limited view 'downward slant' provides. **************~~~~~~~~~~ "I've been on this rock too long to bother with these liars any more." ~SIGforum advisor~ "When the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change, then change will come."~~sigmonkey | |||
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goodheart |
Not on anything important: politics, religion, guns.... _________________________ “Remember, remember the fifth of November!" | |||
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Same here. I seem to be in the minority, and we do fight/argue as we are both passionate and do not yield easily. She is my best friend and after 32 years we know how to disagree and still agree. On anything of importance, she is my partner. “Forigive your enemy, but remember the bastard’s name.” -Scottish proverb | |||
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| Bad Apple of the AAP  |
My wife hates guns. | |||
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Ever heard of Duettes? Link You can open them from the top down. . . . wife in the decorating business for years. " Duette shades are available in an expansive range of pleat sizes, fabrics, colors, opacities and textures. Innovative operating system design options such as Top-Down/Bottom-Up and Duette Duolite® make these shades a top choice for any window, skylight or even specialty window shapes like arches, sidelights and circles." The Duolite Duette may be interesting to both of you. Link _______________________________ NRA Life Member NRA Certified Range Safety Officer | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
Lots of good replies here, haha! For the record, my wife and I DO get along very well on most things, like how our children should be raised, politics, food choices, entertainment etc. I will have to learn to choose my battles on the things we don’t I suppose. | |||
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I would say my wife’s life mission has been to bring me around to being the man she knows me capable of being; and mine to be dragged kicking and screaming to that aim.  _________________________ “Remember, remember the fifth of November!" | |||
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delicately calloused |
She hates it when I pee outside... You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
Ha, ha! That reminds me of a long ago comic strip with Snuffy Smith. He is being chased by his wife, Loweezy, a large woman swinging a rolling pin, hollering, “I’m gonna make a better man out of you whether you like it or not!” Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
Many women think they are sole arbiters of decorating decisions. On your particular concern, go outside when gauzy curtains are on the windows. You can't see much through them at any distance. Probably less than you think. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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I like how she thinks! | |||
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| Official forum SIG Pro enthusiast  |
Yes, she hates motorcycles, which happen to be one of my favorite things on the planet. Almost was a dealbreaker but love won. I don’t think she will ever understand it but she tolerates my addiction.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance | |||
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