[HenryGale]

Apparently this is the new "taboo" in marriage...

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When Your Spouse is Hotter than You

Thursday, Apr. 26, 2007 By BELINDA LUSCOMBE Article ToolsPrintEmailReprints Marrying outside your religion is no big deal anymore. Neither is marrying someone of a completely different generation. And now that something like 4% of all marriages are interracial, not even your grandparents will get lathered up if you marry someone of another color. But as the old prohibitions fall away, a new one is rising to take their place. It's a discrimination that's widespread but largely unspoken, causing pain and stress to the affected couples, who often find it hard to talk about, even to each other. I'm talking, of course, about marrying outside your looks. Marrying a few degrees up or down the hotness scale. Refusing to stay within your cute-gory.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 72,00.html

[Fumblerooskies]

Had I stayed in my own category...I would have married one of the one pictured here:
http://flamefans.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2348

[Libertine]

And this is why Time magazine is considered a bastion of hard-nosed journalism.

[Cider Jim]

When I married in 1986, my wife looked like Melanie Griffith (in Working Girl)--except even hotter. So I'm with Fumble (metaphorically speaking), in that we both married way above our own physical appearance.

[PAmedic]

make it three.

I'm a lucky dog

[Fumblerooskies]

I'm a lucky dog

OK...who's going to be first to make the obvious "miniature Schnauzer or toy poodle" crack? I'll refrain.

[PAmedic]

thanks for keeping your wit on a leash

[PAmedic]

and for muzzling your humor

[Fumblerooskies]

huff....puff...sorry, I'm a bit winded...from chasing my tail. Whew am I dizzy.

[PAmedic]

seeings as its almost a year old now! Some of you newbies probably missed the big event

http://www.flamefans.com/forums/viewtop ... torder=asc

[Libertine]

Wow, you're not kidding, Medic. In that wedding photo, she looks like she dressed up her pet schnauzer and took a jaunt down to Glamour Shots.

[alabama24]

Make it four.

And FYI - I met my wife on e-harmony.com.

[ATrain]

My ex/maybe together again (Stay tuned to "As The A-Train Turns") girlfriend is well outside my range.

[WinthropEagleFan]

Married up....that's a good way to say it, but I prefer the phrase, "outkicked his coverage"...which is what I did.

[Sly Fox]

Finally an excuse to have the better half see what a wonderful site it is for men to brag on their glorious beauty of our wives.



See honey, this is really productive use of our time after all.

[PAmedic]

Finally an excuse to have the better half see what a wonderful site it is for men to brag on their glorious beauty of our wives.



See honey, this is really productive use of our time after all.

let me know how that goes for ya

[El Scorcho]

The equilibrium of beauty is so far out of balance in this picture that it reaches the highest of comedic levels. In other words, I'm not sure how you pulled that off, but good for you.

[PAmedic]

I can't tell you that.

well, I could- but I'd have to kill you.

trade secrets, and all. You understand.

[jmdickens]

Okay, my wife to be on July 14, 2007 is so much hotter than I am......use facebook for verification. And she can attest that I have NO money either.

[PeterParker]

When I married in 1986, my wife looked like Melanie Griffith (in Working Girl)--except even hotter. So I'm with Fumble (metaphorically speaking), in that we both married way above our own physical appearance.

As a member of the Marriedman Society, I feel compelled to look out for my fellowman and implore them to remember the section from the Marriedman Handbook section I.2A.b5 Rule 6.2a:


"Member(s) X of the Marriendman Society is/are well served to coordinate a plan to have other Member(s) Y, who either participated in or were in earshot/eyeshot of the conversation* where alleged spousal-bragging took place, alert Member X's spouse of said comments through the utilization of a casual comment drop in a conversation with her in order for Member X to fully realize the acquisition of positive spousal equity points.

*Addendum 1.1: Said conversation may have been face to face or from digital exchanges."

[Cider Jim]

"outkicked his coverage"

That's the line Barber used on McKay after meeting his wife.

Medic, nice wedding pic, but I have to ask: is your wife short or are you wearing some of those 1970s platform shoes???

[Fumblerooskies]

Great pix, Medic...
...you done good...REAL good!

[PAmedic]

CIDER:

large

tree

root

[TDDance234]

Count me in. I'm with Sly, I'm pretty sure I "out-kicked my coverage" as well.

[Cider Jim]

large

tree

root

Medic, I'm hoping that's a reference to what you were standing on, rather than a metaphor for something else.