Is there something special about first marriages? Like that first person will always be a bigger deal than any spouse after? — TiredThinker
first marriages — TiredThinker
Is there something special about first marriages? — TiredThinker
The more people you sleep with and love the more numb you become and the less you truly value someone — MAYAEL
The human being gets used to whatever it's doing and tries to autopilot everything and reach a state of equilibrium again this is why the first time to do anything seems like the best time and anytime after that is bittersweet — MAYAEL
This remark is reported to have been said by Samuel Johnson in James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791. The occasion was Johnson's hearing of a man who had remarried soon after the death of a wife to whom he had been unhappily married. — TiredThinker
Based on this it almost sounds like the first marriage didn't last long enough to have mattered? — TiredThinker
Xanthippe drove her old man out into the agora everyday looking for youths to corrupt. Fortunately, my wanton exes have postponed that 'first marriage' till my next life.Why buy when you can rent?
Why rent when you can borrow?
Why bother when you can live as well without?
Sorry. Some phrases allude me. I read into them too much.
Just making a little joke, didn't mean for it to get so involved!. But definitely appreciated learning that it was Samuel Johnson's witty remark. Now I don't feel so bad having made such a lame joke :-)
— TiredThinker
Is there something special about first marriages? Like that first person will always be a bigger deal than any spouse after? — TiredThinker
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