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Tim Doyle

Tim Doyle


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Gender: Male
Status: In a Relationship
Age: 32
Sign: Capricorn

City: AUSTIN
State: Texas
Country: US
Signup Date: 12/31/2005

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Tuesday, January 08, 2008 

Category: Romance and Relationships
As a man who might be getting married before he dies, here's a word of advice.

If you are about to marry a woman, and she says "This is / will be the most important day in my life!"  RUN THE FUCK AWAY. 

Think about it- If her wedding is the most important day in her life, it will be ALL downhill from there.  She's lived her whole fairy princess life to get to that point...from that moment on, it's all disappointment.  Did she seriously not imagine doing ANYTHING with her life that could POSSIBLY eclipse the rather common and pedestrian act of getting married?  That's a serious warning sign. 

And, if she hasn't done anything up until that point more important than getting married to your sorry ass...than she sure as fuck isn't worth getting married to, now is she?  Way to put a feather in your cap, dumbass!

Same thing goes for guys- if some dude says, "This is the most important day in my life..." ABORT! ABORT!

Time and fucking time again, I hear from people who say that the most important day in their life was when they got married.  JESUS FUCK!  Snooze alarm. 

I'm not saying it shouldn't be a profound day, or even a great day...but it's not exactly a life-determining day.  No great choices are made that day.  For me, if and when Angie and I finally get hitched up, it'll be an afterthought, a formality.  A silly little bit of ritual...barely containing meaning in the face of the bond we actually share.

If you're getting married not feeling that...maybe you should re-evaluate, eh?

The only reason to marry a princess is if you going to inherit large amounts of British property and livestock...not some shrill burned-out cow.


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John

 
I get what you're saying here. However, what if someone said "This is ONE of the most important days in my life"?

Obviously they aren't saying it is the most important...but that it ranks up there with some of the best.


Mind you...I don't actually think getting married is this amazing thing that I have to strive for or anything, I'm just curious on what you'd say if the context was changed a little.


Plus I'm kind of curious on what brought this on.
 
Posted by John on Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 9:06 AM
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Tim Doyle
Tim Doyle

 
Sure, "one of" the most important is fine...but if it makes the top 5, you are boring and pedestrian, and in the top 10 makes you just merely a little dull.

What brought this on was I was watching an episode of Intervention, and this bitch was moaning about how her pilled-out sister was going to ruin her wedding...her "MOST IMPORTANT DAY IN MY WORLD!"

Sheesh, bitch, take a chill, and get some perspective. It's just a fucking wedding, and your sister is dying. Figure some shit out.
 
Posted by Tim Doyle on Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 10:00 AM
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Jenniwithfur

 
dude, you're watching a "reality" show where they intentionally find the most extreme examples of certain personalities to fuel the drama. Geez man what did you expect?
 
Posted by Jenniwithfur on Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 6:31 PM
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Tim Doyle
Tim Doyle

 
Nah, Intervention isn't really a reality show. Not in the traditional sense...there's no 'prize' other than rehab. I really think this girl was such an addict because her whole family had it's head up their asses. And regardless, people DO act that. Girls especially get wrapped up in the myth of what a wedding should be, they lose ALL perspective on life. It's a thought-virus perpetuated by modern culture...and it makes a great amount of women dumb. Anyone who goes into a wedding saying "It's MY day" is ignorant of what a wedding is supposed to be even on the symbolic level, the JOINING of 2 people, not the celebration of one.
 
Posted by Tim Doyle on Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 8:55 PM
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Kelley

 
will you and Angie have an open bar? Am I invited?
 
Posted by Kelley on Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 9:45 PM
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Tim Doyle
Tim Doyle

 
Yes, if and when we get married, you are invited. And yes, what's a party w/out an open bar?!?
 
Posted by Tim Doyle on Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 11:13 PM
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Jenniwithfur

 
The real question is will the Borat Thong make an appearance at the wedding? : D
 
Posted by Jenniwithfur on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 - 4:46 AM
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Shelly Cashman Quasney

 
Oh, you should watch that My Big Fat Something Something Wedding tv show. Wonderful vignettes of unbridled feminine excess. It's like a slightly older version of the Super Sweet 16 show. It's like a train wreck, love it.

I think the way things are going, we should adjust the marriage tradition. I think it makes more sense to just see a JP and get it out of the way. Then at your 5, 10, 20, 50 year anniversaries throw successively larger and more rockin' parties. Any idiots can get married, big whoop-ti-doo. Not everyone can stay married. That's the part that everyone should be congratulating you for.
 
Posted by Shelly Cashman Quasney on Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 11:23 PM
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Strong
David Roland Strong

 
I can see your point, but it is a "life-determining day" in that it is rather permanent (if it's not, don't do it), like maybe graduating from high school. Even though not nearly all marriages last, even if it's annulled you can't really say "I have never married" if you already have. It may appear a wee thing, but it is what I believe the ancient sociologists might have called a "rite of passage," unless maybe you do it and don't tell anyone, but even then we do live in a common law marriage state, so you can wind up being married without having a wedding. So it might be better to take control of the situation rather than let it take control of you -- and give the poor girl a break.
 
Posted by Strong on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 - 5:31 PM
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Strong
David Roland Strong

 
P.S. I am probably the last person on earth anyone should take marital advice from.
 
Posted by Strong on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 - 5:32 PM
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jenny
Jennifer Scott

 
you guys are getting married?! awesome!!. just kidding. seriously though if you do, i'll hunt down your silly little bit of ritual and show up in a pretty dress. and i might sing to you.
 
Posted by jenny on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 5:26 AM
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Bill Shumake
Bill Shumake

 
Yes! Yes! Yes! I am always amazed that guys can't see this. To me this is obvious, but so many of my friends just don't seem to get it. BTW, I have been married for 20 + years, and one of the keys to success is picking a partner that doesn't think her wedding day is the most important day of her life.

 
Posted by Bill Shumake on Tuesday, June 03, 2008 - 3:10 AM
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