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bri2327bri2327 Posts: 3,178 ✭✭
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So, I took the plunge and got married this past saturday...7-7-07 ( I better NEVER forget our aniversary with that date !)

Wedding went off just perfect, it couldnt have been a better day.

I went back to work monday and have until we leave for the honeymoon next thursday.

Id love to hear any advice from happily married board members, as I am sure there are many. These days any help to make things last long and happy cant be a bad thing !
"The other teams could make trouble for us if they win."
-- Yogi Berra

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  • yawie99yawie99 Posts: 2,575 ✭✭✭
    Keep your bank accounts separate.

    And congrats!
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  • bri2327bri2327 Posts: 3,178 ✭✭
    LOL good advice.

    I just wish youd have given it to me before we opened a joint account earlier today !
    "The other teams could make trouble for us if they win."
    -- Yogi Berra

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  • RogermnjRogermnj Posts: 1,809 ✭✭
    Congrats!!! Always wear rubbers when you stray.. GL
  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 31,508 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Id love to hear any advice from happily married board members, as I am sure there are many. These days any help to make things last long and happy cant be a bad thing ! >>




    LOL Im a happily divorced boardmember! My advice is very simple Brian..

    1-FORGET ABOUT OTHER WOMEN
    2-TALK TALK TALK
    3-LIMIT the time you spend playing sports, going out with the guys, going to the gym, computer, fantasy sports, card collecting
    4-TALK TALK TALK
    5-Remember WHY YOU LIKE HER!
    6-TALK TALK TALK
    7-BE BEST FRIENDS
    8-Get along with her parents
    9-Did I already mention Talk?
    10-Have fun TOGETHER!


    Good luck and best wishes!
  • bri2327bri2327 Posts: 3,178 ✭✭
    Good advice Perk !


    Can any of us really forget other women though ? I prefer to think I can look but not touch !

    As for her parents, I get along with them absolutely perfectly. So well that 3 days before the wedding they actually told me to run and that I could hide at their home and they wouldnt tell her ! I of course said it would be no use and that she would find me image

    I dont go to the gym, my sports are limited to golf once in a while which she never minds, and my card collecting probably wont ever get in the way. She grew up being dragged to card shows by her father, and he spent more in each of those trips than I will spend in 3 lifetimes. I should definately be safe there too !
    "The other teams could make trouble for us if they win."
    -- Yogi Berra

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  • WeekendHackerWeekendHacker Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭
    Everybody knows that we are all born with two ears and one mouth, maybe that's why we should all listen twice as much as we talk.
  • nightcrawlernightcrawler Posts: 5,110 ✭✭
    Congrats, way to go Bri guy image
  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭
    Bri! Congrats man!
    Glad to hear it all went off well! I'll be chatting to you real soon...
    Barry
  • GuruGuru Posts: 3,127
    Awesome man! Congrats! Just remember, like sports, you're a team. Don't let anyone or anything come between you and your team. From now on, it's you and her (and the kids if you have em). The health and heartbeat of your team is the most important aspect of your life now.

    Chris
  • julen23julen23 Posts: 4,558 ✭✭
    hide your porn in the barney dvds.

    put her cycle on your blackberry.

    congrats!

    julen
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    RIP GURU
  • kmnortonkmnorton Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭
    Brian,

    Congrats and, for the record, look at the last entry on page 7 of the Interview for Board Members thread.

    Kurt
    IWTDMBII
  • lostdart58lostdart58 Posts: 2,938 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Id love to hear any advice from happily married board members, as I am sure there are many. These days any help to make things last long and happy cant be a bad thing ! >>




    Advise? Yeah, don't hang out in message boards on the internet four days after your wedding................image
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  • ThulnanthThulnanth Posts: 502


    << <i>put her cycle on your blackberry >>



    LOL - my wife teases me that I know her cycle better than she does image

    Take it easy,
    Jared
    "You consider me the young apprentice,
    Caught between the Scylla and Charibdes,
    Hypnotized by you if I should linger,
    Staring at the ring around your finger" - Sting

    Ray Thiel (1964-2007) - the man who showed me more wonderful games & gaming sessions than I ever dreamed possible... you ran out of hit points too young, my friend.
  • BarfvaderBarfvader Posts: 2,859 ✭✭✭✭
    Congrats Brian.image

    Advice? Hmmm!!!

    Well always remember that she's right and your wrong. And that if anything goes wrong it's your fault. And when talking always pay attention and look in her eyes and not at her chest. image



    Jeff

    Jeff

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  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
    Congrats!! Though I hope the pre-nup that she signed stated that she could not get her hands on your collection??image
  • Brian48Brian48 Posts: 2,624 ✭✭✭
    When buying stuff, it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission.
  • onlyanumberonlyanumber Posts: 2,433
    hone up on your peripheral vision skills. Never get caught looking.

    She ever asks you if she looks fat in an outfit, for God's sake, don't ever tell her yes. For that matter, never ever buy a scale.

    Never answer her if she asks you if you think her sister/friend/actress on tv is hot? And if you do always tell her no.

    Congrats bri!
    Next MONTH? So he's saying that if he wins, the best-case scenario is that he'll be paying for it two weeks after the auction ends?

    Forget blocking him; find out where he lives and go punch him in the nuts. --WalterSobchak 9/12/12



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  • jdip9jdip9 Posts: 1,894 ✭✭✭
    congrats....I'm taking the plunge in 3 months myself.

    Is anyone else like me, who when they were graduating college, figured they'd be married with a kid or two by age 30...and then 30 came and went and neither happened?...no compliants about my life path though...in fact, if I could do it all over again, I'm not sure I'd change anything.
  • onlyanumberonlyanumber Posts: 2,433


    << <i>congrats....I'm taking the plunge in 3 months myself.

    Is anyone else like me, who when they were graduating college, figured they'd be married with a kid or two by age 30...and then 30 came and went and neither happened?...no compliants about my life path though...in fact, if I could do it all over again, I'm not sure I'd change anything. >>



    Same here man. Didn't get married until I was 30, 1st kid at 31, 2nd one on the way now.
    Next MONTH? So he's saying that if he wins, the best-case scenario is that he'll be paying for it two weeks after the auction ends?

    Forget blocking him; find out where he lives and go punch him in the nuts. --WalterSobchak 9/12/12



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    Looking for Al Hrabosky and any OPC Dave Campbells (the ESPN guy)
  • ElemenopeoElemenopeo Posts: 2,577 ✭✭

    Congrats!
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Yep congrats, no advice though. You are on your own.


    Steve
    Good for you.
  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭


    << <i>congrats....I'm taking the plunge in 3 months myself.

    Is anyone else like me, who when they were graduating college, figured they'd be married with a kid or two by age 30...and then 30 came and went and neither happened?...no compliants about my life path though...in fact, if I could do it all over again, I'm not sure I'd change anything. >>




    Was married when I was 23, wife was 21, had our first kid 1.5 years later. I want them out of the house sooner than later. Both my wife came from families where our parents were older when we were born. We wanted to have our kids when we were younger.
  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭
    Congrats Brian. Your wife, she is the pizza girl correct? If I remember correctly her family owns a pizza parlor.

    Anyway, thats great to hear. Tonya and I have been married 9 years and it sounds like a dumb cliche but it really does get better everyday.

    Good luck!

    matt

    ps Im gonna have to eat a pizza later image

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  • drewsefdrewsef Posts: 1,894 ✭✭


    << <i>hide your porn in the barney dvds. >>



    don't think I could marry a woman I had to hide that from image
  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
    Congrats!

    Being a single guy, I can't give you any marital advice image

    Best of luck and congrats again image
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • alnavmanalnavman Posts: 4,129 ✭✭✭
    Get on your mother in law's good side...never know when you'll need her support....helps to have her on your side....father in law usually comes around a lot easier.....especially if he indulges in similar vices....beer, baseball, football, wings on Friday...I think you get it......also washing the dishes once in awhile, a load of clothes washed here and there (this sometimes work in your favor when you don't do them the way she would) and most of all GOOD LUCK!!!!!!


    al. (almost 18 years for me and so far she's letting me stay around, although she almost sh!t when I told her I was going to retire on October 3rd!!)
  • jdip9jdip9 Posts: 1,894 ✭✭✭
    Was married when I was 23, wife was 21, had our first kid 1.5 years later. I want them out of the house sooner than later.

    I assume you are talking about your kids, and not your wife and first-born! image
  • alnavmanalnavman Posts: 4,129 ✭✭✭
    lol, I work with a number of retired military and when some of them retired from the military everything went, kids, dog, wife, everything!!
  • cwazzycwazzy Posts: 3,257 ✭
    Congrats. I've been married for 4 years now. They have been 2 of the best years of my life. I have two words of advice for you that will get you through almost any situation: "Yes, Dear."

    Chris
    Chris
    My small collection
    Want List:
    '61 Topps Roy Campanella in PSA 5-7
    Cardinal T206 cards
    Adam Wainwright GU Jersey
  • TheVonTheVon Posts: 2,725 ✭
    7 years and still learning, but the one thing I try to do every day is to make her laugh. A good laugh soothes a lot of irritations.
  • colebearcolebear Posts: 886 ✭✭
    Congrats Brian, The laughing suggestion is a good one. I am not married, but have been with my girl for a while and communication is a must, ABOUT EVERYTHING. Seperate checking accounts was a good idea also!!
  • bri2327bri2327 Posts: 3,178 ✭✭
    Great stuff guys, thanks for all the nice responses and congratulations image
    "The other teams could make trouble for us if they win."
    -- Yogi Berra

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  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,771 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congrats, bri, and best wishes for a happy & healthy future! image


    Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
  • nearmintnearmint Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭
    Congratulations, Bri!

    - Pick your battles carefully
    - Don't buy her a softball bat and cleats for your first anniversary

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  • pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭
    congrats dude, she sounds like a cool chick..
    ·p_A·
  • OimbotbOimbotb Posts: 19
    Congratulations, you got yourself a great anniversary date.
  • zef204zef204 Posts: 4,742 ✭✭

    Congrats Brian!
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  • zef204zef204 Posts: 4,742 ✭✭


    << <i>hide your porn in the barney dvds. >>



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  • jmbkb4jmbkb4 Posts: 2,963
    bri,

    leave her notes now and then around the house. Takes 5 seconds but has ridiculously huge dividends.

    others give good advice, especially julen. image
  • jskirwinjskirwin Posts: 700 ✭✭✭
    I've been married 16.5 years to the Wife - my best friend.

    My only advice: Never quit.

    Things will get tough - but they will eventually improve and when they do you'll be happy that you stuck it out together.

  • preownedautospreownedautos Posts: 86
    My advice is to listen to perkdog's advice. It's easy to tell you what makes a marriage work, but everybody has different ideas as all relationships are different. Not every situation is the same and what works for one relationship may not work for another. However, most of the advice of what not to do is pretty consistant. And he forgot to mention it, but TALK, TALK, TALK!

    There is a song by Luther Vandross called, "Buy me a rose" that was previously recoreded by Kenny Rogers (and maybe by somebody else before that), but listen to the words to that song very carefully!!!
  • lawnmowermanswifelawnmowermanswife Posts: 683 ✭✭


    << <i>Tonya and I have been married 9 years and it sounds like a dumb cliche but it really does get better everyday.
    >>

    Ha! There is a fine example for you bri, write good things about your wife where you know she'll see it.

    Congratulations to the two of you!
    Tonya
  • ldfergldferg Posts: 6,750 ✭✭✭
    bri,
    sound advice from jskirwin:

    I've been married 16.5 years to the Wife - my best friend. My only advice: Never quit. Things will get tough - but they will eventually improve and when they do you'll be happy that you stuck it out together.

    i just celebrated 19 years last sunday....don't know that i'd change a thing.

    ...and congratulations!!!!


    Thanks,

    David (LD_Ferg)



    1985 Topps Football (starting in psa 8) - #9 - started 05/21/06
  • jmbkb4jmbkb4 Posts: 2,963


    << <i>

    << <i>Tonya and I have been married 9 years and it sounds like a dumb cliche but it really does get better everyday.
    >>

    Ha! There is a fine example for you bri, write good things about your wife where you know she'll see it.

    Congratulations to the two of you! >>



    someone's gettin' paid tonight!!

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  • cohocorpcohocorp Posts: 1,371 ✭✭
    congrats
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