Preserving Ones Marriage

Wandering Sagebrush

Wandering Sagebrush

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For all you married guys, here's a lesson about how to preserve your marriage...

After spending many hours cleaning and waxing the love of your life (CDory wise), it is best to NOT toss the shop towels that are now loaded with Collinite 925 Fiberglass Boat wax into your bride's washing machine. This is the voice of experience (and a voice that is in deep and serious yogurt) speaking.

I actually am growing to like the smell of Collinite on my Tee Shirts :oops: :oops:

BTW, Collinite seems to be good stuff on the boat. Not sure about the laundry.
 
Wandering Sagebrush":216e428u said:
After spending many hours cleaning and waxing the love of your life (CDory wise), it is best to NOT toss the shop towels that are now loaded with Collinite 925 Fiberglass Boat wax into your bride's washing machine.
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Why would any married man do laundry?

(ducking and hiding)
 
Laundry? No offense, but that's the small stuff. :roll: Here's a tip on how to really preserve one's marriage: let your wife pick out the boat. Oh, I narrowed it down to a C-Dory 22 or a C-Dory 25... then, encouraged her to do the picking. We sat in each, laid in the v-berths, walked by each other in the aisle, walked along the coaming on each, stood on the bow, stood at the galley. When all was said and done, she said, "That one," pointing at the 25. Since that moment, there hasn't been an issue with me waxing and keeping "her" boat clean. 8)

Just saying.
 
JamesTXSD":3jd6x4rx said:
Here's a tip on how to really preserve one's marriage: let your wife pick out the boat.
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Thanks for the advice, but I'd be enjoying it in the tub with my ducky.
 
Don't know if this counts, but my wife did spot the boat first and she wrote the checks, (2). After that it is still "My boatie stuff" that raises the eyebrows. :roll: And she enjoys the wheel time too.

PS: I like to do laundry :embarrased

Harvey
SleepyC :moon
 
For both our new purchases, CD22 and CD25, we were NOT going to buy a boat, we were "just going to look" - but she sat at the dinette, stood at the galley, lay down in the vee-berth, and then she uttered the immortal words, once in 2003 and again in 2005, when I instantly knew I was going to get a new boat: "Let's just go see what the deal is."

And for all you guys married LESS than 43 years (41 damn years and 2 good ones), the six most important words in the English language: "Yes dear, I'm sorry, you're right."
 
Pat Anderson":36i9z7yb said:
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And for all you guys married LESS than 43 years (41 damn years and 2 good ones), the six most important words in the English language: "Yes dear, I'm sorry, you're right."
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Just leave out the comma after "I'm sorry" and you'll have that just right. :wink:
 
Pat Anderson":99117o3a said:
I get to be right once a year, and I really hate to waste it on something unimportant.


JamesTXSD":99117o3a said:
Just leave out the comma after "I'm sorry" and you'll have that just right. :wink:
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Joan came along on the dinner cruise tonight. Coming back in with two boats full of guests, I come to the dock first, put a first mate on the dock who then ties me off, then we can catch lines for the other boat. Joan hopped off our boat after we had a line on and caught the other boat. On this cruiseboat is the only time I get to tell her what to do. Different from "being right," of course... but still a fun treat. :wink:
 
After walking through and being impressed by a nice Bayliner at a boat show, my dear wife Kimiko (33 years married to me) in a sweet tone said I could buy any boat I liked... as long as I could keep it in our garage! I settled on a 16 ft. CD cruiser.

On our maiden voyage was a C-Dory group gathering at Catalina, I stupidly went fishing with her on day one when she was still sea sick from crossing the channel the prior day. That meant leaving the harbor at 11Am rather than 4AM when the sea is flat. The afternoon wind came early and threw waves that for my boat, was like the movie The Perfect Storm. I was trying to troll with two lines out and keep my wife happy. It only took a second's distraction from the helm for the wind to turn the boat around and tangle both lines in the prop. I raised the outboard and straddled it like a rodeo bull rider with a knife in hand to cut the lines. My dear wife choose that moment to say "Do you think this is FUN!!!" to which I answered "sure! I'm loving it!" In her sea sick and angry mood, she then unloaded "You're crazy!!! If we get back alive, I'm leaving you and taking the house and everything but this damn boat and the dogs!" I thanked her for her generosity in leaving me the boat and dogs, and we returned to the sting line. That was in 2003. We're still married, but she prefers to stay on dry land! Some things in marriage take time to work out, but they do so with the intent to see it both ways.
 
C-Pup16 in Los Angeles":1mo5au2m said:
and we returned to the sting line.
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Keith....."Sting"line.....a freudian slip perhaps?

I still fondly remember the day that I borrowed my wife's van to tow the boat and forgot to transfer her work ID card to my vehicle and when she discovered I hadn't transfered it she came roaring back into the driveway and said, "Either sell the boat or buy a new truck!" About 2 hours later I called her on the cell phone from the seat of a new 4 X 4 Dodge diesel and said, "Hi honey, I'm sitting in my new truck", to which she replied, "Good". :thup :thup
 
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