Would you date/marry someone from a different generation than you?

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Gojira

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Pipp said:
Sure, why not ;)
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But, seriously folks... I had a friend visit me from California this past week. Her name is Kate, and she's 33. I'm 59. She's a good friend of mine. The age difference between us is not felt or seriously noticed. I almost feel like she's a peer.

But, when she came to church with me yesterday, a guy there asked if she was my daughter. I said 'no', and he looked somewhat taken back. I told him she was just my friend.

Just know that if you do do something like that (get involved with someone more than a decade younger than you), you are going to get looks, and probably some judgment too.
 
Lanolin

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Has anyone actually read Generation X by Douglas Coupland.

If you have, maybe start that discussion because I have read it and it wasn't really what I thought it was going to be about.

In a nutshell, it wasn't so much about the whole 'my parents divorced and now I don't really know what to do with my life' kind of thing. To me it seemed like the offspring of people who grew up during the war I think it was just didn't understand why they didn't want to change their decor. lol
 
CarriePie

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Gojira said:
But, seriously folks... I had a friend visit me from California this past week. Her name is Kate, and she's 33. I'm 59. She's a good friend of mine. The age difference between us is not felt or seriously noticed. I almost feel like she's a peer.

But, when she came to church with me yesterday, a guy there asked if she was my daughter. I said 'no', and he looked somewhat taken back. I told him she was just my friend.

Just know that if you do do something like that (get involved with someone more than a decade younger than you), you are going to get looks, and probably some judgment too.
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This is very interesting. I've heard similar responses in other areas. It must be different in the south though (the Deep South, that is). My experience in a relationship with a bigger age gap than that, no one ever said anything for years. Only one time did a young cashier stare at us (but who knows why she was really staring).
 
Gojira

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CarriePie said:
This is very interesting. I've heard similar responses in other areas. It must be different in the south though (the Deep South, that is). My experience in a relationship with a bigger age gap than that, no one ever said anything for years. Only one time did a young cashier stare at us (but who knows why she was really staring).
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Interesting. But, somehow that makes sense to me. Not entirely sure why.
 
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JohnDB said:
The woman in Proverbs 31 is a metaphorical representation of what the church should be. Not an actual single individual. A single individual woman would die of exhaustion trying to do all and be all of that.
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GaryA said:
Well - she doesn't have to do all of that in a single day! :eek: :p :rolleyes:
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I hope you know that this was just intended to be humorous - teasing you about what you said.

JohnDB said:
I can't help but see it as the "Bride of Christ ".....just saying....my wife can't make girdles worthy of the marketplace but that doesn't mean that she isn't one in a million.
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Again, it is not a 'to do' list of things every woman is required by God to do. Rather, it is a 'characteristic personality traits' list that reflects the mentality, disposition, and habit/practice of every 'virtuous' woman.
 
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And, if that list I made in post #68 describes your wife - you are a very blessed man! :)
 
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RodB651 said:
23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land...

Lots of guys want a proverbs 31 wife that does all the work while he hangs out with the guys at the city gates.

Yall know I'm right! 😄
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1) This is indeed very funny.

2) Unfortunately, you are correct about lots of guys.

3) In the context of the passage, that verse illustrates how/that such a woman contributes to her husband's success.
 
JohnDB

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GaryA said:
I hope you know that this was just intended to be humorous - teasing you about what you said.


Again, it is not a 'to do' list of things every woman is required by God to do. Rather, it is a 'characteristic personality traits' list that reflects the mentality, disposition, and habit/practice of every 'virtuous' woman.
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But....

Shouldn't the "Bride of Christ" absolutely be all of these things with those attitudes and ideals? (Possibly more?)
 
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